Marcus Joseph Macke Schweinberg (b. 1993) is a German lawyer and artist working at the intersection of law, art, and science. Based between the Allgäu and Berlin, he is a co-founder of HEKA Studio, an interdisciplinary platform exploring how atmospheres, perception, and collective experience can generate new forms of knowledge and connection. His practice spans sculpture, painting, text, and spatial interventions that treat art not as object, but as a field in which form emerges through participation, time, and relational dynamics.
At the core of Macke’s work lies a shift from representation to experience: spaces are constructed as structured yet open systems, where clearly defined axioms enable the emergence of liminal, pre-conceptual atmospheres. Influenced by legal theory, anthropology and philosophy, his installations investigate how reality is shaped not only through rules and definitions, but through mood, embodiment, and (shared) perception. In this sense, his work consistently asks how knowledge, belief, and meaning arise before they are fixed in language and systems.
His legal background informs a sustained inquiry into power, authorship, and the authority to define. Rather than treating law as a rigid system, Macke approaches it as a flexible, pattern-based structure that can be reimagined through spatial and artistic practice. This perspective extends into his engagement with post-anthropocentric thinking, indigenous knowledge systems, and relational worldviews, where human and non-human actors co-constitute reality.
Macke’s projects often operate as collective environments: viewers become participants, perception becomes material, and form is never fully stabilized. Across his work, tensions are not resolved but held. Through HEKA, he develops these ideas further as a collaborative framework, positioning art and science as complementary “freedom spaces” that together enable new modes of sensing, thinking, and acting in an increasingly complex world.