Born 1989 in Vaduz (LI). Based around Liechtenstein, Zurich, Eastern Switzerland & Northern Germany.
With a focus on public performance and spacial installation Martina Morger work speaks about display, decay and desire. Their main work groups include Soft Machines, Window Shopping and Bella Bells. As a co-curator of Perrrformat they bring performance art into public space. Martina was a studio fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and holds the Manor Art Award.
2018-2019
Glasgow School of Arts, Master Fine Arts Practice, Prof: Michelle Hannah, UK
2017-2018
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Transmedia Arts, Prof: Brigitte Kowanz, AT
2015-2018
Zurich University of Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Prof: Alexander Tuchacek, CH
2007-2010
University of Zurich, Bachelor of Arts in Media & Communication Science, CH
SELECTION
2024
Fresh Window, Museum Tingely, Basel, CH
Road Kill, Kunstremise, Bludenz, AT (solo)
ORANMENTA, Pforzheim, DE
Re/Sculpture, Neues Museum Biel, CH
Bella Bells, Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch, AT (solo)
2023
90th Fall Exhibition, Kunstverein Hanover, DE
12 rooms, Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant 2023, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
Are We Dead Yet?, Artist's Choice, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI (solo)
The Dream, Agora Digital Art, online & London, UK
2022
Distant Lover, Beletage, Zurich, CH (solo)
Parallel, Galerie am Lindenplatz, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna, AT
BANG BANG – translokale Performance Geschichten, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH
R.A.W. or The Sirens of Titan, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
2021
Stories of Empathy, Kunsthäuser Worpswede, DE
Sehnerv Media Art Video Prize, PROGR, Berne & Houdini, Zurich, CH
Lèche Vitrines, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH (solo)
In-Between And Around The C., Rote Fabrik, Zurich, CH
Stretch, Lovaas Projects, Munich, DE
Your Dreams, Warenlift, Zurich, CH (solo)
2020
Window Shopping, DWDS, Bregenz, AT (solo)
How To Survive, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, DE
Another Long Evening, Marktgasse 26, St Gallen, CH
I Might Be Staring At Infinity, Virtual ARTIM, Baku, AZ
In Relation with:, Espace Libre, Biel, CH (solo)
2019
SourSOP, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
To Smooth the Furrowed Brow, B32, Maastricht, NL
Hairy Death Spiral, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow, UK
58th Venice Biennale, Liechtenstein symposium, Museo Correr, Venice, IT
Suomi Art Fair, Galleria Lapinlahti, Cable Factory, Helsinki, FI
ALIGHT, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
2018
Heimspiel, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
Triennale Visarte, Kunstmuseum, Vaduz, LI
Performance Fotografie, LISTE Art Fair Basel, CH
Harts Brot, Museümli, Buchs, CH (solo)
Aller Retour, Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, FI
SELECTION
2024
Home Smart Home, Schaan, LI & Berlin, DE & Glasgow, UK
Perrrformat präsentiert x Gessnerallee: lo.me, public performance event, Zurich, CH
2023
Hard Care, collab with Gemma Jones, Glasgow, UK
Perrrformat präsentiert: Jo Baan, public performance event, Zurich, CH
Are We Dead Yet?, Artist's Choice, curation of collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
2022
Perrrformat präsentiert: Giulia Essyad, public performance event, Zurich, CH
Hosting Stillness, Perfo von Gemma Jones, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2021
Soft Machines, performance evening, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Perrrformat präsentiert: Anina Müller, public performance event, Zurich, CH
2020
Bubbles by Tess Wood (Stereoskop Digital), performance, online & Wales, UK
2019
Britney’s Breakdown, performance evening, Civic House, Glasgow, UK
Hopelessly Devoted, group show, Garment Factory, Glasgow, UK
2018
Tabula Rasa (Stereoskop VII), performance festival, Tart Gallery, Zurich, CH
Utopia (Stereoskop VI), Spieglerey, Zurich, CH & NoNation Gallery, Chicago, US
Beuteschema (Stereoskop IV), performance evening, Pferd, Vienna, AT
2024
Collection, Neues Museum Biel, CH
Project Grant, Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, LI
2023
Travel Grant, Culture Moves Europe, Goethe Institute, DE
Work Grant, Arts Council City of Düsseldorf, DE
Collection, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Poster Design for ASSITEJ Liechtenstein, LI
Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant 2023, short list, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, LI
2022
Work Grant, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, CH
Collection, Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, LI
Collection, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
Deep Clean, Edition Visarte Liechtenstein, LI
2021
Tongues, Edition Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Work Grant, Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
MANOR Art Award, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Media Art Award Sehnerv, short list, Berne & Zurich, CH
Collection, Kunsthäuser Worpswede, DE
Collection Women’s Archive, St Gallen, CH
SELECTION
2024
Atelier Berlin, Residency, Department for Culture Liechtenstein, Berlin, DE
From The Im/Possibility of Talking about Art, Panel Talk, Atelier62, Schaan, LI
Relationships, A Practice & The Environment, Artist Talk, STAGE Treff, Festspielhaus, AT
2023
Digitally ever after – Preparing for immortality in the Metaverse, Talk by Stefanie Schillmöller & Charlotte Wiedemann, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
Stipendienstätte der Zukunft, Residency, Künstler*innenhäuser Worpswede, DE
The Value of Art, Panel, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, LI
2022
Miracles, Poton Theatre, Residency, Batovce, SK
Future of the Museum, Keynote Speaker, Symposium, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
2021
Künstler*innenhäuser Worpswede, Short Residency, Worpswede, DE
Paywall, How to survive as a worker in Arts & Culture, Palace, St Gallen, CH
Virtual Twin, Remote Digital Residency, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2020
Softly Polished Machinery, Workshop, HEK, Basel, CH
Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency, visarte, Paris, FR
SELECTION
2024
Lèche Vitrines, publication Manor Art Award 2021, Jungle Books, St Gallen, CH
Bella Bells, publication self published, Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch, AT
2023
Mit Kunst den Tod überwinden, text von Kristin Schmidt, Tagblatt St Gallen, CH
Busy, müde, tot, gallerytalk.net, text by Carolin Kralapp, Nürnberg, DE
12 rooms, Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant 2023, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
2022
Distant Lover, publication self published, Beletage, Zurich, CH
R.A.W. or the sirens of Titan, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Appenzell, CH
2021
Kunstbulletin, text by Kristin Schmidt, Sept Issue, Zurich, CH
Gesichter & Geschichten, Portrait, Swiss Television, Zurich, CH
Manor Kunstpreis St Gallen, arttv.ch, Kulturfernsehen im Netz, Zurich, CH
Gründliches Lecken, Sept Issue, Missy Magazine, Berlin, DE
The Market: What is the Value of Art, Venice Agendas, Venice, IT
(Pro)Found Listening, JAWS Journal for Art Writing, Vol. 6, Intellect, Bristol, UK
2020
Another Long Evening, Kunstbulletin, Sept, Zurich, CH
The Local, House Letters: Absence and Presence, Issue 2, London, UK
Another Long Evening, arttv.ch, Kulturfernsehen im Netz, Zurich, CH
2019
Chains, publication by Julia & Julia, Glasgow, UK & Mainz, DE
Art in Dataspace, La Biennale Venezia, Art Museum Vaduz, LI
Martina Morger's artistic practice interweaves cybernetics and corporeality in situational
installations and site-specific performances. Their central questions deal with individual freedom in increasingly technological lifeworlds as well as ideas of power, desire and care within a neoliberal society determined by work and performance. Martina repeatedly places a specific focus on the role of FLINTAQ* and constructions of gender. Their works can be understood on the one hand as positioning within the existing system and on the other hand as assertions against that very system: Martina actively occupies spaces and negotiates the effects of social constraints on our bodies through strategies of display and visualisation. In this way, they create queer drafts of a society whose central characteristics are hybridity and fluidity and thus assert themselves against the standardisation efforts of our present.
Martina Morger studied Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich and Media Art at the Zurich University of the Arts and Die Angewandte in Vienna before completing a Masters in Fine Arts Practice at the Glasgow School of Arts. As a co-curator of Perrrformat, they bring performance art into public spaces, and are part of several collectives and unions. In 2020, Martina was a studio fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. They are a Manor Art Prize winner in 2021 and recent exhibitions have included their work at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen / Appenzell / Liechtenstein, CCA Glasgow, National Galleries of Scotland, Yarat CAS Baku, Cafa Art Beijing, Galerie Lovaas Projects, Suomi Art Fair and ArtFair Liste Basel. In 2019, Martina represented Liechtenstein at the 58th Venice Biennale.