Mara Wild

Mara Wild is a trained bookbinder and studied illustration. She sees herself as an interdisciplinary artist working in the fields of illustration, animation and artistic research, with a particular focus on narrative forms. Her work spans analogue and digital, art and craft. Since 2017 she has been a video artist for theatre and opera; she also works as a visual jockey providing live visuals for concerts and events.

In her explorations of forms of interaction and the active intervention of moving images in stage action, as well as the interweaving of old and new theatrical forms, Mara Wild especially enjoys working with the director Cora Sachs. Their projects together have included the development of the play Wenn wir tanzen, summt die Welt, which was awarded the Hamburg Theatre Prize — Rolf Mares for best production, the trilogy Anatomie der guten Hoffnung at the monsun.theater Hamburg and the production Pech und Schwefel for the Junges Theater Bremen (2022). In 2022 Mara Wild was video artist for the semi-staged opera production Orfeo ed Euridice (after Haydn’s L’anima del filosofo), collaborating with the director Birgit Kajtna-Wönig and the conductor Adam Fischer at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. In 2023 she took part in the show Faust in Space by Freuynde + Gaesdte at the Planetarium in Münster. In 2024 she developed an interactive installation for the exhibition Gene — Vielfalt des Lebens at the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster.

Mara Wild illustrated Luke and Kelly Jackson‘s graphic novel Two-Week Wait, which was shortlisted for the Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) Award in 2022. She is chair of the Illustratoren Organisation, the professional association of illustrators in Germany.