MARTINA MORGER
MARTINA MORGER
Martina Morger's artistic practice interweaves cybernetics and corporeality in situational installations and site-specific performances. The central questions she explores in this way 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. She repeatedly places a specific focus on the role of FLINTA and constructions of gender. Her works can be understood on the one hand as positionings 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 visualization. In this way, she creates queer drafts of a society whose central characteristics are hybridity and fluidity and thus assert themselves against the standardization efforts of our present.
Exhibitions
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Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / Manor Kunstpreis St. Gallen 2021 — Lèche Vitrines
Martina Morger receives the Manor Art Prize St.Gallen 2021. The jury honors a performance and multimedia artist who works unflinchingly and uncompromisingly and critically questions social and economic working and living conditions. She persistently identifies social grievances and transforms fundamental questions of our existence into performances that are sometimes physically demanding, sometimes disturbing. Martina Morger deals with the position of women and in particular with the position of the female artist in modern capitalist society. She explores and reflects on female and queer voices and deals with topics such as technology, work and care.
Photo credits: Daniel Ammann, Fabienne Watzke, Lukas Zebrst and Virginie Vabre
Kunstmuseum Appenzell / Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendium 2023 — 12 Rooms
The Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation awards an annual working grant to artists under the age of 35. The scholarship competition has been held in cooperation with exhibition venues in various European countries since 1983. The award, which comes with a prize of 60,000 Swiss francs, is one of the most highly endowed grants for young artists in Europe. The scholarship was initiated by the founder Ilse Leda, the wife of the artist Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (1899-1962).
Photo credits: Urs Baumann
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen — Distant Lover
Various displays arranged in the room create a state of suspension between a shop that has already been abandoned or one that is still under construction. The artificially created atmosphere is underlined by interior design elements such as carpet, wall colour and light. “Distant Lover” refers to an unfulfilled longing and emphasises the absence of things or of closeness.
