GASAG Art Prize 2024

Mariechen Danz (* 1980 in Dublin, Ireland) is the recipient of the GASAG Art Prize 2024. The GASAG initiated award, has been presented in cooperation with the Berlinische Galerie since 2010. With the prize the partners honour an outstanding artistic position at the intersection of art, science and technology every two years.

In her artistic practice Mariechen Danz explores methods and models of human knowledge. In installations and performances she combines scientific systems for appropriating and describing the world, with subjective, alternative and magical thinking. The starting point for her artistic research is the human body, which serves as a template for new approaches to communicating or presenting information and knowledge. For her exhibition “edge out” Danz will transform the entrance hall of the Berlinische Galerie into an expansive installation, in which, like an unfolded map the floor and walls are linked by sculptural interventions. The show builds on an extensive visual language of carto-graphy, geology, technology, anatomy and astronomy forged by the artist over the years in her sculptures, performances and videos. Depictions and casts of organs of the human body for example, are a central motif in Danz’s work. In this exhibition they appear sometimes as negative imprints in bricks, as translucent sculptures, or as a shadowplay on the walls. As futuristic fossils they escape time, charting the influence of politics and society on our bodies.