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Anne Marie Maes (b. 1955, Belgium) is a Brussels-based multidisciplinary artist whose work blends art, science and ecology. With a background in botany and visual anthropology, she explores ecosystems, alchemical processes and the intricate relationship between nature and form. Her practice integrates living organisms and biological, digital and traditional media to examine self-generating art processes. On the roof of her studio, she has created an experimental garden and field laboratory, studying insects, bacteria and natural phenomena to understand how form emerges in nature. Maes’s long-term projects, such as Connected Open- Greens, Bee Agency and Laboratory for Form and Matter, engage with ecological systems through collaboration with universities and fablabs. Maes has exhibited widely at Belgian and international venues, such as EMST, Athens (2025); M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2024); nGbK, Berlin (2024); Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (2023); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); iMAL, Brussels (2021); IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen (2020); Laboral, Gijon (2019); Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga (2019); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2018); Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel (2018); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology – MAAT, Lisbon (2018); and Bozar, Brussels (2017).