Mariechen Danz: Edge Out

In her artistic practice Mariechen Danz (* 1980 in Dublin, Ireland) explores methods and models of human cognition. In her large installations and performances, often collaborating with other artists and musicians, Mariechen Danz combines established systems of knowledge used to understand and describe the world with subjective, alternative and magical perspectives. The starting point for her artistic research is the fragmented human body: its organs, functions and perceptive processes provide models for expressing new ways to build, exchange and record knowledge, truth and history.

The award winner studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita. Her works have been shown at the 16th Istanbul Biennial, the 57th Biennale di Venezia, Haus der Kunst in Munich, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Kunsthaus Bregenz, The High Line in New York, New York’s New Museum and solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel and the Kunstverein Göttingen. Mariechen Danz lives and works in Berlin.