Marie Lynn Speckert (*1989, Hanover; lives in Leipzig/Berlin) is an interdisciplinary artist whose creative areas extend to medicine, biotechnology, human-computer interaction (HCI) and sound. In their creative practice they use a variety of materials including steel, epoxy resin and organic substances to create atmospheric scenarios. Her work includes media installations and live performances that serve to confront artistic reflections on our artificial environment and standardized behavioral patterns with the instincts of the individual.

Speckert places an emphasis on the study of systems theories, particularly as they relate to organisms such as the human body and its structure. Her artistic work not only serves aesthetic design, but also a critical examination of the interactions between technology, anatomy and human behavior.

 

In the area of anatomy and art/media theories, she researches parasitic and symbolic relationships between technology, sculpture and sound.

 

 

 

2015-2017 master course, sculpture with Prof. Wilhelm Mundt / Prof. Carsten Nicolai, HfBK Dresden (DEU)

2015 diploma with honors sculpture/metal with Prof. Andrea Zaumseil, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/Saale (DEU)

2013 erasmus Scholarship Prof. Johan Muyle, La Cambre École d´Art, Brussel/Belgium (BEL)

 

Active as a soundperformer and composer with pseudonym „Alphabeton“ and „DURA“

works and lives in Leipzig/Berlin (DEU)

 

Member of research groups: Tangible Music Lab (www.tamlab.ufg.at) and  Fasica Leipzig (www.fascia-leipzig.com).


 

Scholarships I Price

 

2020  EHF Artist Scholarship, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

2019  Nosedive, working scholarship, Art Foundation Sachsen-Anhalt and Kloster Bergeschen Foundaiton

2018  Anomalie, graduated scholarship, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle Saale

2017  Local Particiants Program, working scholarship 2017, PILOTENKÜCHE, Leipzig

2015  Art price, recognition, Sparkassenstiftung, Sachsen Anhalt

           Vinje Snoforming, 1. Place, Norway

 

 

Publications

 

2024 Artistic Explorations of Anatomical Structures and Digital Interventions: Redefining the Human Body in the Age of Technology, Atlas der Datenkörper 2, Bart, M Breuer, J Freier, A L, transcript Verlag: Bielefeld

 

2023 W A T E R, Quasi Magazine, Bristol (UK)

 

2023 Organum Paradoxum/Scalptomorpha: A Sculptural Parasite to Hack the Human Anatomical System, xCoax, School of X, Bauhaus Universität Weimar           

 

2017 Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reaction and plastination in whole body slices. A novel technique to identify fascial tissue structures, Dr. habil. Hanno Steinke

 

Congresses

 

2023 xCoAx 2023, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Bauhaus University Weimar

 

2023 NEW NOW Festival Hyper Natural Forces, Zollverein, Essen

 

Compositions I Projects

 

2022  SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Microtec, Bozen

2022  SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Radialsystem, Berlin

           Kunst.Raum.Konzerte Präsentieren: Olicía trifft MDURA, GEH8 Kunstraum, Dresden

2021  142 m/s, Goethe-Institut, Amman Jordan

2020  POSTHUMAN ISLAND, Sound design, Felt zine x Cultural Policy

           It Will Have Been. A New Futurist Manifesto, Stefan Hurtig

           Chaosmosis, crosslucid, o2o2facewear

2019  E-Sound of Silence, zeitraumexit, Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim

           Come as you are, Mara Sandrock, INTER disciplinary Shop, Spinnerei Leipzig

2017  XIANG TANG and YIWEN SHAO, Music for Crosslucid, London/Berlin

2012  geSchichten aus der Heimat, Antonia Ravens, Trossingen

           Fliegende Füchse auf der Suchenach Liebe, Sabrina Lewe

2011  Sight of Transgression, Sywana Zybora

 

 

Performances

 

2022 SISTERS OF ALGOLORE, by Deva Schubert, Radialsystem, Berlin

2021 Unmeasurement Straßenunterhaltungsdienst, Plus ou moins cirque productions, Revier Südost,  Berlin

2012 geSchichten aus der Heimat, Antonia Ravens, Trossingen

 

 

 

Solo shows (section)

 

2023 WEIGHT OF SOUL 58106g, Paul Scherzer Gallery, Halle

 

2022 W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Werkleitz, Halle Saale (DE)

 

2018 Vector/Traeger mit Emma Wilson, Frappant e.V., Hamburg

 

2017 Response, mit Tobias Gellscheid, Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin

 

2016 chapter 1A, Galerie nachtspeicher23, Hamburg

          Widerhall, mit Tobias Gellscheid, Eisfabrik – Weiße Halle, Hannover

 

2015 Auslöser, Turnhalle Volkspark, Halle Saale

          Rauschen mit Tobias Gellscheid, Galerie Zaglmaier, Halle Saale

          Holzstich und Bildhauerei mit Tobias Gellscheid, Töplitz, Potsdam

 

Groupexhibitions (selected work) 

 

2022

aller beute spuren, Hal - Studio Galerie, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

CARING FUTURES ART EXHIBITION, Sølvberget Galleri, Norway

W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Bæjarhátíð í Búðardal,Iceland

W A T E R, with Alessa Brossmer, Sim-biotic, Venice Arsenale, Capannone 106 (ITA)

XX. Jubiläum - Mediziner&Malerei, University Leipzig

 

2021

ignorance&honesty, GIEGLING, Walzwerk doing Art Basel, Basel

ignorance&honesty, GIEGLING, Pittlerwerk, Leipzig

EIN IMPULS, jungekunstfreunde x STRÖER, Köln


 

2020

Verwandelt, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle

me IRL, curated by Melissa Huang, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott, Georgia, USA

Quarantine Exhibition, space52, Athens, Greece

scholarship exhibition, Fresh A.I.R., Projektraum Urban Nation, Berlin

BREAK OUT: Series 2, LA Art Documents, Los Angeles, USA

[SHIFT:ibpcpa] The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts, curated by Ayshia Taskin,

The Wall Space Gallery, Scotland, UK
 

2019

Shades Of Black, storpunkt gallery, Munich

Gegen Die Schwerkraft, Giegling at Funkhaus, Berlin

Ideenwerkstatt, fenced in area, DA-Kunsthaus, Hörstel

 

2018

Arsenal, Spinnerei Intershop interdisciplinaire, Leipzig

Right Here, Right Now, Spinnerei UNTERGESCHOSS 14, Leipzig

II III X #01, Galerie nachtspeicher23, Hamburg


 

2017

MEISTER 17, Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden

Ding und Wesen, Galerie BRIDGET STERN im Künstlerhaus FAKTOR, Hamburg

Unterwelten, Zaglmaier Galerie, Halle Saale

Full Stop, PILOTENKÜCHE, Leipzig

Masterclass – Cold Turkey, KIII Galerie, Hannover

Metamorphosis. The Human Stories, Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden

 

 

2016

Just Physical Stand 10.8, Westwerk, Leipzig

Performance Night 2016, Prima Kunst, Kiel

artig Kunstpreis 2016, Galerie Kunstreich, Kempten (Allgäu)

PROVOKATEURE, størpunkt Galerie, München

 

 

2015

maniac – Kunst im Kontext von Psyche, Wahn und Besessenheit, reflektor Kunstpreis 2015, Wien

Die Zeit drängt, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz

in Jail - TAG DER OFFENEN TÜR, ehemaliges Gefängnis, Meißen

Aufbrechen, Sparkassen Kunstpreis 2015, Volkspark, Halle Saale

 

 

2014

Ich seh´was, was du jetzt siehst., areal17, Halle Saale

Invasion, art-jams, e-werk, Freiburg

Nebenan, altonale, Hamburg