Marcel Schwittlick is a Berlin-based artist who uniquely blends digital and physical art through the use of drawing machines and algorithmic systems. His work spans generative art and plotter art, where he transforms digital cursor-lines into intricate, tangible artworks. Schwittlick draws inspiration from generative aesthetics and computational methods to create geometric patterns that play with the concepts of chance and intention. With a background in computer science and art, he crafts his pieces using vintage plotters and self-developed algorithms, embracing the machines' quirks to explore the symbiosis between artist and machine. His practice not only visualizes the intricate dance between control and randomness but also includes an auditory dimension through the distinctive sounds produced by the plotting machines during the creation process.
Photo by Klodie Zengbé
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 Bright Moments Gallery, True Colors (w/ Pedro Moraes), Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Galerie Met, Vertical Line Test (Composition no.94), Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Despace, Octet, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 SP2, The Long Run, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 Galerie Data, AUTO/GRAPH, Paris, France
- 2022 Bark Gallery Lab, Upward Spiral, Berlin, Germany
- 2019 Erratum Gallery, Feeling Data, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2024 Reimagine Tomorrow, Expanded Art, AI Biennale, Composition #82, Essen, Germany
- 2024 Art Cologne, DAM, Composition no.99, Composition #82, Vertical Line Test, It is what it is, Cologne, Germany
- 2024 Paris Photo, Tender, Composition no.99, Paris, France
- 2024 Interface Gallery, Upward Spiral, Composition #96, The Long Run, Composition #82, Breda, Netherlands
- 2024 Positions, Galerie Met, Vertical Line Test (Composition no.94), Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Positions, Kate Vass Gallery, Unicode Landscape, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Städtischen Galerie Wolfsburg, Code - Kunst - Konstruktionen, Wolfsburg, Germany
- 2024 Expanded Art, The path to the present, 1954–2024 Composition #82, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Digital Art Mile, Matter & Data Composition #82, Basel, Switzerland
- 2024 ISOVIST, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Composition #92 and It is what it is, Yale, USA
- 2024 Synths, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Composition #96, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Art Dubai, 37x Composition #82 & The Long Run, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 DAM Projects, Concept Line, 1010 complex lines & Composition #92, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Bright Moments Gallery, Composition #92, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Untitled, Miami Beach, It is what it is, Miami, USA
- 2023 Paris Photo, Grand Palais Ephémère, Composition #92, Paris, France
- 2023 Kate Vass Galerie, NODE TO NODE, It is what it is Upward Spiral Octet, Paris, France
- 2023 Expanded Art, Composition #82, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 SP2, Generative Centipede, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 NOTAGALLERY, The Long Run, Upward Spiral, Composition #82, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Cromwell Place / Verse, Composition #83, London, UK
- 2023 Expanded Art, Composition #82, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 The NFT Gallery / Vertical Crypto Art, Composition #82, London, UK
- 2022 NBX, Upward Spiral, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 Art Basel Tezos booth, Upward Spiral, Basel, Switzerland
- 2022 Verwalterhaus, Upward Spiral, Berlin, Germany
- 2022 Galerija Knifer Group exhibition Osijek, Upward Spiral, Croatia
- 2021 Zeitraumexit, Never Change A Running System, B-Seite Mannheim, Germany
- 2021 Salve Domino 3 Berlin, Germany
- 2021 Multimedijalni Kulturni Centar Split International Student Biennial | Greatest Hits Split, Upward Spiral, Croatia
- 2021 Espace Croisé Mémoires des autres mondes, Data Totem Roubaix, France
- 2021 Jogja National Museum Spectrum Optica, 4chan vacation Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2021 Despace Berlin Metaverse Me, So Intimate Berlin, Germany
- 2020 Future Lab, Art and Design in Education, Shanghai, China, Never Change A Running System
- 2020 Fahrgemeinschaft,Tag der offenen Tür der Haubrok Foundation ,Never Change A Running System, Berlin, Germany
- 2020 Pedalmarkt, Ge-Narrative,Upward Spiral, Berlin, Germany
- 2020 Kunstmatrix, A Moment In Time ,Never Change A Running System, Online
- 2020 Athens Digital Art Festival,Techno Tribalism, Never Change A Running System,Online
- 2020 The Wrong.tv, Never Change A Running System,Online
- 2020 Silent Green Kunstquartier, Strange Things,Data Totem,Berlin, Germany
- 2019 SomoS Art House, Unreal Desires, Data Totem, Berlin, Germany
- 2019 Art pavillon Cvijeta Zuzoric, 5th Belgrade International Triennial of Expanded Media,Various video works, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2019 Weserhalle, Auction, Composition #52.139,Berlin, Germany
- 2019 k48, Extension of Free time, Vienna, Austria
- 2018 Jogja National Museum, Art|JOG|11 - Enlightenment, Neurodynamics, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2018 Mitte Media Festival, Gallery Fata Morgana | ‘ZKM Connection, 4chan Vacation, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 ENSA école nationale supérieure d’art, Orbis Terrarum, 4chan Vacation, Limoges, France
- 2018 Petersburg Art Space, Cool Kid Over, 4chan Vacation, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Mühlenhaupthöfe Kreuzberg,Videoart Festival II, 4chan Vacation, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Mohsen Gallery, TADAEX, Neurodynamics, Tehran, Iran
- 2017 Lacuna Lab, Serious Sparkles - Transmediale Vorspiel,Electronic Chaos Oracle,Berlin, Germany
- 2017 ACUD Ask Something - Transmediale Vorspiel, Let’s sleep on it, shall we?, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 Spektrum, Graphical Sound in Soviet Russia and beyond / Scope Sessions Exhibition / Cybernetic Choreographies / Digital Motion / Composition #37 & Electronic Chaos Oracle, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 Jogja National Museum,ART|JOG|10,So Intimate & Composition #37, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2017 Lacuna Lab, Open Studio Exhibition, Electronic Chaos Oracle, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 Green Art Space, Writings of the World,Electronic Chaos Oracle, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2017 CCCB, The Influencers - Internet Yami Ichi,Electronic Chaos Oracle, Barcelona, Spain
- 2016 Harwood Museum of Art Permanent Exhibition Taos, Origination Point, New Mexico, USA
- 2016 Richmix, Incloodu Festival, Kima, London, UK
- 2016 Zeitraum Exit, Abstracted Intentions, B-Seite Festival, Mannheim, Germany
- 2016 Spektrum Lacuna Lab Activation Exhibition, Vector Graphics on a Laser & Electronic Chaos Oracle, Berlin, Germany
- 2016 Open Sky Gallery ICC,ISEA1,Berlin Calling,Hong Kong, China
- 2016 School for Poetic Computation, Alt-AI Conference,1+2=3,New York, USA
- 2016 El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Currents New Media, Composition #9.6, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- 2016 Panke Culture Scope, Session Exhibition, Electronic Chaos Oracle, Berlin, Germany
- 2016 Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Die Werbung, Composition #37, Berlin, Germany
- 2016 GlogauAir,Retune Festival, Electronic Chaos Oracle Berlin, Germany
- 2015 Pabellón Cuba, Bienal de la Habana,Origination Point, Havanna, Cuba
- 2015 Union Chapel, Kima Solo Performance, London, UK
- 2015 Bei Ruth,Versuch einer Arbeitsdarstellung #4, Composition #9.6, Berlin, Germany
- 2015 Spektrum,Geek Market, Generative Engravings, Berlin, Germany
- 2015 Chelsea Space, LIVE, Propeller, London, UK
- 2014 Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Transmediale Afterglow,Artificial Out of Body Experience, Berlin, Germany
- 2014 Lehrter17, Unrender #1 & #2, true/false & Stroke, Berlin, Germany
- 2014 Panke, Bolt #1, Imaging Move & Stroke, Berlin, Germany
- 2014 Phoenix Gallery, The New Sublime, So Intimate, Brighton, UK
- 2014 Kunsthaus Bethanien,The It Show, Diagnosis, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance, Find Your Doppelgänger, Berlin, Germany
- 2012 Diversity Art Gallery The Wavement, Berlin, Germany
- 2012 Artchipellago The Wavement, Berlin, Germany
Artist Talks & Workshops
- 2024 Generative Art Summit, Panel, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Digital Art Mile: Mapping Generative Art, Artwork as a System, Panel, Basel, Switzerland
- 2023 Radialsystem, Unchained: KI, Krypto & Kunst, Panel, Berlin, Germany
- 2023 Cromwell Place / Verse, NFT & Metaverse, Panel, London, UK
- 2023 Cromwell Place / Verse, Odysseys, Artist Talk, London, UK
- 2022 A Historical Journey of Art and Technology (Tezos x Art Basel), Panel, Basel, Switzerland
- 2022 Arbitrarily Deterministic, Podcast, Berlin, Germany
- 2019 Städelschule SAC, Workshop, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2018 Retune Festival, Panel, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Greenhouse Art Space, Artist Talk, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2017 Yogyakarta University of the Arts, Workshop Generative Composition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2017 SPICED Academy, Artist Talk, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 Zürich University of the Arts, Artist Talk, Zürich, Switzerland
- 2016 Scope Sessions, Artist Talk, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Arte Creative, Video Interview, Berlin, Germany
Awards
- 2016 ISEA, Official Selection Open Sky Gallery, Berlin Calling, Hong Kong, China
Education
- University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Media Computing, 2010-2013, Berlin, Germany
- University of Arts Berlin, Art & Media / Generative Art, 2019 - 2022, Berlin, Germany
In the lab, 2024
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