CV

Marie Lynn Speckert aka MDura born 1989 in Hanover / Germany is a contemporary media+bio artist, composer and sculptor. Her artistic work combines anatomic structures, medical tools, sounds with performance and sculptures and employs them to create atmospheric scenes. By utilizing sculptural elements, innovative sound microcosms and delicately balanced actions, she shows complex sensory impressions to reveal their emergent and interpretive possibilities. Her creations often have a strong, yet fictional connection to medicine. They refer to processes, changes and mortality. 

 

The presentations of her works convey an artificiality, as they are emphasized in a different context and are reminiscent of dream worlds or scenarios. The production process is also an important aspect of the presentation. The material language primarily uses metaphorical processes as well as inherent transformational qualities.

 

In her music she works with samples of anatomical body sounds, organ communication, tension and work processes for creating sound landscapes. She also uses conventional instruments like violoncello, harp, idiophones, brass and particularly steel percussions.

 

 

 

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

 

2023

School of X, xCoAx, Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X

 

 

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

NEW NOW Festival, zeche zollverein, Essen

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

 

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 exhibitions (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