THERESA WEBER

THERESA WEBER currently lives and works in Berlin.

Working across material collage, textile installation, and collaborative performance, WEBER interrogates power structures and challenges fixed systems of categorisation. Drawing on her Jamaican, German, and Greek heritage, her practice often engages with Caribbean discourse, ancient mythologies, and historical research. Through contemporary body-markings and archival strategies, she explores how traditions are never static but always in flux transformed, reinterpreted, and reimagined. Moving within the tension between transparency and opacity, Weber creates spaces where fragility becomes a source of resilience and nuance becomes a form of strength.

WEBER studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art in London. Recently, her work was exhibited at Perrotin Paris, Nicoletti in London,Museum Nikolaikirche Berlin, and the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen. She was included in New Contemporaries (2022), followed by her first public commission at Somerset House, London (2023), her first museum solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bochum, and a Tate Collective commission. She has received multiple awards and fellowships, and has exhibited internationally at institutions including Gropius Bau, Berlin; Ludwig Forum,Aachen; South London Gallery; and Saatchi Gallery, London.

Curriculum Vitae

ATOPOLIS

Friday 12 September – Saturday 11 October 2025

Atopolis derives from the Greek roots a- (“without”) and polis (“city”), forming a word that means “without place.” The title references Jack Whitten’s monumental 2014 painting Atopolis (Black Monolith for Édouard Glissant), which WEBER first encountered at his retrospective at MoMA.

Whitten described “Atopolis” as “an imaginary city constructed out of elements from anywhere—a borderless city built from the uprooted, ungrounded, and nomadic destinies of old and new migrants: a fluid identity.”

Building on this idea, WEBER develops her own mappings and diagrammatic constellations to examine how she experiences location and belonging. Through archival arrangements of site-specific materials, such as fragments collected during her residency at Project Loop, she explores what it means to ground oneself in a particular time and place, while simultaneously acknowledging the expansive reach of international networks. Her reflections on place oscillate between un-rootedness, multi-rootedness across many contexts, and a form of grounding within herself.

This exhibition invites the viewer into a state of perception, an awareness of reality as fragmentary yet infinitely expansive. It proposes a fluid understanding of territory, where movement and placement are always seen in relation to social groups and collective dynamics, while still attending to the individual detail in dialogue with the larger whole.

Installation view: Theresa Weber, Atopolis , exhibition at Loop, London, 2025. Photo Noah Da Costa. — Installation view: Theresa Weber, *Atopolis*, exhibition at Loop, London, 2025. Photo Noah Da Costa.

Theresa Weber, Woven Body Blue , 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Woven Body Blue*, 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Atopolis II , 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Atopolis II*, 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Diagram I , 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Diagram I*, 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Atopolis V , 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Atopolis V*, 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Diagram IV , 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Diagram IV*, 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Mosaic , 2021. Details — Theresa Weber, *Mosaic*, 2021. Details

Theresa Weber, Woven Body Orange , 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Woven Body Orange*, 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Atopolis I , 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Atopolis I*, 2025. Mixed media on canvas, 62 x 82 cm / 24.40 x 32.28 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Woven Body Beige , 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Woven Body Beige*, 2024. Mixed media textile, 230 x 34 x 4 cm / 90.55 x 13.38 x 1.57 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Diagram II , 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Diagram II*, 2025. Collaged prints on paper, 103 x 72 cm / 40.55 x 28.34 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Mosaic , 2021. Mixed media on PVC, 162 x 202 cm / 63.77 x 79.52 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa — Theresa Weber, *Mosaic* , 2021. Mixed media on PVC, 162 x 202 cm / 63.77 x 79.52 in. Courtesy of the artist and Loop, London. Photo: Noah Da Costa

Theresa Weber, Woven Body Blue , 2024. Details. — Theresa Weber, *Woven Body Blue*, 2024. Details.

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