Elisabeth Masé (1959, Basel, Switzerland) studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel (HGK/FHNW) from 1979 to 1983, later teaching painting and drawing there from 1984 to 1997, and serving as a guest lecturer at the State Academy of Art in Oslo in 1994. Since 1996 she has lived in Germany, and since 2012 in Berlin, while maintaining a continued connection to Trieste, Italy.

Masé is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working as a painter, draughtswoman, photographer, object-maker, architect of spaces, and filmmaker, and, since 2018, as dramaturge, director, and scenographer for an international dance company. Her work explores bodily self-perception and the associative power of the unconscious, moving between abstract and figurative-narrative modes marked by vulnerability, loss, dreams, trauma, sarcasm, and humor.

Since 2016 she has developed participatory, interdisciplinary art projects across Europe, West Africa, and the United States, including Das Kleid/The Dress, Der Mantel/The Cloak, and Die Braut/The Bride, often in collaboration with the Tchekpo Dance Company. Her public works include Les Cours Etoilées at the University of Neuchâtel and Raum der Stille in Bielefeld. She is also a published author, with works including the novel Das schlafende Krokodil (2021) and Children and Dictators (2019).

She has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, including at Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum MARTa in Herford, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York. Her honors include the Swiss Federal Art Prize, the Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize, and the Manor Kunstpreis Basel.