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 theZurich 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.