On nuclear pasts
and radiant futures
Logo: SALT.CLAY.ROCK.
Artistic research
and exhibition

Marike Schreiber

Marike Schreiber (*1982 in Neustrelitz) lives and works in the Mecklenburg Lake District. She studied media art at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 2008 to 2019 she ran the Leipzig art space Praline, together with Air Merten and later Yvonne Anders, which was a place for participation-oriented formats and site-specific exhibitions.

Marike is interested in the nature of scientific images, in the visual expressions of science: how the shapes and colors of data, models and metaphorical terms are translated into images. She is interested in how they can be seen as ciphers of a certain worldview – of ideas around being human and/or of nature itself. She uses these two-dimensional images as material for sculptures and installations.
www.marikeschreiber.de

Marike Schreiber and child below a powerline

Marike Schreiber investigates nuclear infrastructures, interested in the entanglements of the former GDR's first nuclear power plant in Rheinsberg—also the first in Germany to be entirely decommissioned—and the Stechlin nature reserve that surrounds it. The Lake Stechlin, famously described in a novel by German realist poet Theodor Fontane, has played an important role in cooling the power plant. The lake's excellent water quality and biodiversity have been studied by researchers since the late 19th century.