Mars Dietz
Brooklyn, New York
Mars Dietz is an intermedia sound artist, DJ and electronic musician from Brooklyn. Mars' hybrid background includes multi-channel performance and installation, live accompaniment and collaboration with choreographers and other time-based artists, and further interdisciplinary / conceptual media in an often research-driven solo practice bent on historical analysis.
Mars has an extensive career history working as a solo sound artist, club DJ, musician and sound designer in the choreographic and performing arts community in Berlin, with comissions and performances at the Spinnerei Leipzig, Sophiensaele Berlin, Haus der Kunst Munich, PopKultur Festival Berlin, Creamcake Berlin's 3hd Festival, Kunsthaus KuLe, e-werk Luckenwalde, Ballhaus Ost, as well as the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute for Electronic Arts, ABC No Rio, Brooklyn College, and further locations in the United States. Mars' work has been supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds e.V., Alfred University, Creamcake Berlin, Amplify Berlin, and most recently Makerspace NYC.
Mars performed as a resident DJ and collective member of BODYSNATCH, a monthly underground club night in Berlin focused on bass-forward music that sustained a dedicated cult following from 2011 - 2022. Mars is the co-editor of Honey Zine Vol. 2, a publication based in Berlin and London, together with Opashona Ghosh and Dylan Spencer-Davidson. In New York, Mars is the initiator of the new event series Outer Listening, a format dedicated to the combination of words and sounds launched in the summer of 2025.


