Career
As self-taught artist she began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. She is considered to work in the field of neo dada and art brut. Mama Baer has a huge amount of music releases available at independent labels like Ultra Eczema, Intransitive Recordings, Nihilist Records, and others
She shares split albums with Franz Kamin, Thurston Moore, The New Blockaders, Jonathan Meese & Tim Berresheim, Family Fodder, Smegma, Rudolf Eb.er, Sudden Infant, John Wiese, LSD March, and collaborated with GX Jupitter-Larsen, Dada Action Group, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Charlemagne Palestine, Boris Lurie & Dietmar Kirves, General Ken Montgomery & Conrad Schnitzler, Rod Summers, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Z"EV, John M. Bennett, Jaan Patterson and Alig Fodder of Family Fodder.
Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed live at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton, 2009, Zappanale, Bad Doberan, 2010, Incubate (festival) Nijmegen, 2010, and at artists" venues like Morden Tower, Café Oto or Mary Bauermeister"s performance space. They performed live with January van den Dobbelsteen and Danielle Lemaire, Eugene Chadbourne, John Wiese and others
As artist she has been involved in several solo and group art exhibitions around the world. Short films by Mama Baer have been presented at European festivals.
The German novel writer Peter Rathke, who works under pseudonym FOLTERGAUL, presented Mama Baer as character at his novel "Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer".
Mama Baer appears as a character, played by Kathleen Gregory, in a partially completed short film by Fred Wilder. Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer also wrote most of the music for the film and there are performances by The Sex Socks.
