Marlene Bart (*1991) is an artist who takes the taxonomy of natural phenomena as a departure point to ask questions about the reductive thinking in our scientific need to classify and categorize the tremendous diversity of living species

By assembling these pieces into a contemporary Kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, thereby fetishizing them, she is reminding us that, as Michel Foucault pointed out, at the heart of the desire to classify is a need to possess and control, and knowledge is always tied to power.

She is currently finishing her PhD. at Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Germany and lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, at the Villa Arson, Nice, France, and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She also holds a Master’s Degree from the Univsität der Künste, Berlin.