Cana Bilir-Meier works as a filmmaker and artist as well as in art and cultural education projects. She studied Art Teaching, Art and Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2016, her work was awarded the Birgit Jürgenssen Prize. Bilir-Meier's filmic, performative and text-based works operate at the interfaces between archive work, text production, historical research and contemporary media reflexivity or archaeology.