Katrin Mayer is an artist based in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She works individually and collaboratively with a focus on site-specificity, gender, polyphony, textile and textual structures and topological notions of thought and space. For her site-specific, installation-based works, she researches local history in order to reflect on and question the historicity of a place in the present. Her work is research-intensive and she has repeatedly worked with archives, for example most recently during her research fellowship at the VALIE EXPORT Center, Linz (2023-24), which houses the artist's legacy.

In 2020/2021, she received a grant from the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, during which she researched the origins of the internet and coding. Together with Anna Cairns, she developed the ongoing publishing platform www.c0da.org.