This discussion was held in conjunction with Marlene Bart’s solo exhibition entitled “Ordnungswut”, a multimedia installation that explores the complex relationship between art and science and questions long-established hierarchical systems of order and structures of knowledge in the context of the increasingly crumbling paradigms of the Anthropocene. Marlene Bart is based in Berlin, and her practice is situated at the intersection of natural history and visual art. This exhibition combines installation, glass and 3D printed sculpture, printmaking, and virtual reality work. She holds a Ph.D. from Bauhaus University Weimar. Lisa Moravec is a Vienna-based writer, curator, and art historian. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her research focuses on performative elements within the visual arts, specifically on human, digital, and animal connections. Upcoming work includes a monograph: *Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance* (Routledge, 2024), and an exhibition on artist Rose English for the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg. She holds a Ph.D. from Royal Holloway, University London. Exhibition text by Marlies Wirth, curator at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna

ARTIST TALK Marlene Bart in conversation with Dr. Tina Sauerlaender (peer to space) September 17, 2023 IN GERMAN On the occasion of "UNLEASHED UTOPIAS. Artistic Speculations about Today and Tomorrow in the Metaverse", exhibition of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin, September 9 - November 5, 2023, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany. About Marlene Bart: Marlene Bart works at the intersection of natural history, anatomy, and the visual arts. She combines scientific and artistic images to create a new visual language. To what extent does this common visual language make it possible to rethink systems of order in the natural sciences? Here, Bart’s research is also artistic—how can the human relationship to these categories be influenced and even altered by virtual reality, or VR. Using a variety of techniques (prints, artists’ books, sculptures, installations, VR), she shifts historical books and other evidence into a contemporary context. Marlene Bart studied the visual arts under Professor Wolfgang Ellenrieder at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (HBK), at Villa Arson (École nationale supérieure d‘art) in Nice and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has a master’s degree in “Art in Context” from the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and completed her doctorate at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (BUW) on the subject of „The artist‘s book as a multimedia encyclopaedia“. Marlene Bart lives in Berlin. About Theatrum Radix (2022): Theatrum Radix combines systems of categorization used in natural history with contemporary technologies such as CT scans and 3D modeling. In the virtual space, natural objects are turned into new, surreal, moving pictures and supplemented by artworks. Viewers literally immerse themselves inside of bones, or a glass brain, or in the interior life of a dissected frog. Boundaries between the types of animals and plants are dissolved, creating a speculative outline dealing with habitats and systems of order. This allows viewers to change perspective. They find themselves at a remove from the human, anthropocentric perspective, and the systems it uses to categorize nature. The title can be traced back to a seventeenth-century Italian philosopher, Guilio Camillo, and his Theater of Memory. Camillo planned a theater in which he could unite knowledge of the world and of the universe, like an encyclopedia. Theatrum Radix picks up on this idea and creates a hybrid universe oscillating between the physical world and virtual space. It opens up a playful, interconnected view of objects, instead of reproducing order as a hierarchical concept. Film © 2023 peer to space & VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin Photos: J. Pegman Artworks and Installation © Anan Fries www.vrkunst.dkb.de

Artist Talk con l'artista Marlene Bart Nuovo appuntamento a Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza con il ciclo “Ponti – tra le rive”, promosso dal Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani. Mercoledì 9 settembre alle ore 18 si terrà l’incontro con l'artista Marlene Bart, artist in residence a Venezia fino alla fine di settembre. Marlene Bart parlerà della sua tesi di dottorato artistica-scientifica sul tema "Il libro d'artista come enciclopedia multimediale" e presenterà alcune sculture in vetroresina dedicate alle forme degli animali marini veneziani come le canoce, i folpi e i calamari. Introdurrà la serata la vicepresidente Helen Geyer, modererà Petra Schaefer, responsabile per le relazioni artistiche. L'evento si svolgerà nel rispetto delle normative previste per l'emergenza Covid-19 e potrebbe essere spostato a causa della situazione sanitaria. L'ingresso è libero, i posti sono limitati. Per gli ultimi posti si prega di scrivere a rsvp@dszv.it Marlene Bart sul suo progetto “Il libro d'artista come enciclopedia multimediale” Il progetto di dottorato è costituito dal lavoro al "libro d'artista come enciclopedia multimediale". Esso unisce una parte scientifica e una parte pratica artistica. Partendo da una prospettiva di enciclopedista nella ricerca artistica si attua un confronto e un'analisi di varie enciclopedie della prima età moderna e di libri d'artista della modernità in poi con una particolare attenzione ai sistemi visivi della loro struttura. Dopo questa analisi segue la trasposizione pratica del "libro d'artista come enciclopedia multimediale": Producendo vari contributi enciclopedici e accogliendo dei contributi di scienziate e scienziati e artiste e artisti, alla fine il risultato viene presentato nella forma di un'istallazione che si rapporta strettamente con il "libro". Il progetto di ricerca si pone nell'interfaccia tra obiettività e immaginazione, tra scienza e arte. La trasposizione ideale di un medium della prima età moderna nell'arte contemporanea rende possibile uno sguardo transdisciplinare sul campo dell'enciclopedistica. Breve biografia Marlene Bart Marlene Bart (*1991) vive e lavora ad Hannover e Berlino. Ha studiato arti visive all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Braunschweig, alla Villa Arson (École nationale supérieure d’art) di Nizza e presso l’Art Center College of Design di Pasadena. Bart ha conseguito il master in "Art in Context" all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Berlino e attualmente sta svolgendo la tesi di dottorato sul tema "Il libro d’artista come enciclopedia multimediale" all’Università Bauhaus a Weimar. Ha insegnato dal 2017-2020 all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Braunschweig e dal 2020 insegna all’Università Bauhaus di Weimar.

Marlene Bart TAXA & THEATER OF MEMORY Credits: Allgemeiner Konsumverein Braunschweig, Thomas Bartels, 2021

Jan Panniger ist Ausstellungspräparator am #mfnberlin und euch vielleicht schon aus der Beats & Bones-Folge "Präparieren: Make-up für die Ewigkeit" bekannt. Gemeinsam mit Marlene Bart, bildende Künstlerin und Guide am Museum, tauschte er sich mit euch live auf Instagram über Tierpräparation als Berufsfeld zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft aus – und zeigte einige aktuelle Arbeiten aus unseren Präparationswerkstätten. Der Livestream fand in Ergänzung zur Podcast-Folge "Wie Ausstellungen entstehen" statt. Beats & Bones entsteht in Kooperation mit unserem Hauptsponsor Berliner Sparkasse. Ab sofort überall, wo es Podcasts gibt: https://linktr.ee/mfnberlin #WissenSchafftDurchblick

Naturdinge, Kunst in Quarantäne @JungeMeister, 2020 A digital insight into the solo exhibition "Naturdinge" by the artist Marlene Bart. The exhibition was a cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and feinkunst e.V. Hannover.

Marlene Bart TAXA & THEATER OF MEMORY Credits: Allgemeiner Konsumverein Braunschweig, Thomas Bartels, 2021