Martina Morger, born 1989, is based in and around Liechtenstein & Hanover. With a focus on public performance and spacial installation Morgers work speaks about display, decay and desire. Their main work groups include Soft Machines, Window Shopping, Are We Dead Yet?, Road Kill and Bella Bells. As a co-artistic director of Perrrformat Morger brings performance art into public space. They were studio fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and hold the Manor Art Award.
2018-2019
Glasgow School of Art, 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 the Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Prof: Alexander Tuchacek, CH
2007-2010
University of Zurich, Bachelor of Arts in Media & Communication Science, CH
2026
In Good Standing, Liechtenstein Botschaft Bern, CH
Gatherings / Aasammleg, Alter Pfarrhof, Balzers, LI
2025
Ceremony, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH
Ceremony (Einläuten) & (Ausläuten), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, CH
Jaywalking, Hiltibold, St Gallen, CH
2024
Road Kill, Kunstraum Remise, Bludenz, AT
Bella Bells, Johanniterkirche Feldkirch, AT
2023
Are We Dead Yet?, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, CH
2022
Distant Lover, Beletage, Zurich, CH
2021
Lèche Vitrines, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Your Dreams, Warenlift, Zurich, CH
2020
Window Shopping, DWDS, Bregenz, AT
In Relation With, Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne, CH
2026
Sonnendeck, Rosengarten, WC Welle-7, Stadtgalerie Bern, CH
Under The Milky Way, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, DE
You Are The End Of My Desire, Migros Schaan, Im Rösle 2, Schaan, LI
Aus der Sammlung, Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz, LI
2025
Was Wäre Wenn, Kornhausforum, Bern, CH
Habitat, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hanover, DE
Glymera, Art Empowers, Zurich, CH
Blind Spots, Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz, LI
2024
On The Street, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
Fresh Window, Museum Tingely, Basel, CH
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK
ORNAMENTA, Matthäuskirche, Pforzheim, DE
Re/Sculpture, Neues Museum Biel, CH
STAGE, with Galerie am Lindenplatz, Festspielhaus Bregenz, AT
2023
What Performance Artists Wear, mary.two, Lucerne, CH
stadt.raum.experimente, Kunstkommission Dusseldorf, DE
Sammlungsfieber, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
90th Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
2022
Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
The Dream, Agora Digital Art, online & London, UK
Parallel, with Galerie am Lindenplatz, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna, AT
FILE Festival, Sao Paolo, BR
2021
R.A.W. or The Sirens of Titan, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
Sehnerv Media Art Video Prize, PROGR, Berne & Houdini, Zurich, CH
In-Between And Around The C., Rote Fabrik, Zurich, CH
2020
Stretch, Lovaas Projects, Munich, DE
How To Survive, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, DE
Bloody Morrow, Lavender Sunrise, Nextex, St Gallen, CH
2019
I Might Be Staring At Infinity, Virtual ARTIM, Baku, AZ
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, Venedig, IT
Suomi Art Fair, Galleria Lapinlahti, Cable Factory, Helsinki, FI
2018
ALIGHT, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Heimspiel, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
Performance Fotografie, LISTE Basel, CH
2026
Perrrformat x Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
Home Smart Home, International Short Film, LI/CH/DE/UK
2025
Perrrformat rrRrr Festival, public performance festival, Zurich, CH
Perrrformat x STAGE, art fair performances, Festspielhaus Bregenz, AT
2024
Home Smart Home, open panel, Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK
Perrrformat x MASI Lugano: Raffaela Boss, public performance event, Zurich & Lugano, CH
Perrrformat x Gessnerallee: lo.me, public performance event, Zurich, CH
2023
Perrrformat: Jo Baan, public performance event, Zurich, CH
Are We Dead Yet?, Artist's Choice, curation of collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
2022
Perrrformat: Giulia Essyad, public performance event, Zurich, CH
Hosting Stillness, performance by Gemma Jones, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2021
Soft Machines, performance evening, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, CH
Perrrformat: Anina Müller, public performance event, Zurich, CH
2020
Stereoskop Digital: Bubbles by Tess Wood, performance, online & Wales, UK
2019
Britney’s Breakdown, performance evening, Civic House, Glasgow, UK
Hopelessly Devoted, group show, Garment Factory, Glasgow, UK
2018
Stereoskop VII: Tabula Rasa, performance festival, Tart Gallery, Zurich, CH
Stereoskop VI: Utopia, Spieglerey, Zurich, CH & NoNation Gallery, Chicago, US
Stereoskop IV: Beuteschema, performance evening, Pferd, Vienna, AT
2026
Work Year Scholarship, Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, LI
Project Grant, Innovationsfond, Studio für radikalen Pragmatismus, Kulturbüro Hannover, DE
2025
Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
Work Grant, Mediatalents Niedersachsen, nordmedia & Film- und Medienbüro Niedersachsen, DE
Project Grant, Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein, LI
2024
Presentation Grant, Swiss Cultural Fund, Swiss Embassy UK, London, UK
Internationale Bodenseekonferenz Award, Youth Jury, AT/CH/DE/LI
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
2025
SonnTalk, Talk & Guided Tour, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hanover, DE
Kulturforum: Kulturstrategie Liechtenstein 2025, Panel, SAL, Schaan, LI
2024
Engaged Cinema: Home Smart Home - Ethics of Smart Home Technologies, Open Panel, Goethe Institut Glasgow, UK
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
2025
Lèche Vitrines, publication Manor Art Award 2021, Jungle Books, St Gallen, CH
Sendung am Nachmittag, Radio Report, NDR, Hanover, DE
On The Street / Auf Der Strasse, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, LI
2024
Fresh Window, Art & Shop Window, Museum Tingely, VFMK, Vienna, AT
Übers Gehen, Vexer Verlag, St Gallen, CH/Berlin, DE
Re/Sculpture, Neues Museum Biel, CH
Bella Bells, 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 is a multimedia artist working across performance, video, and installation. Their practice investigates how care, desire, and power become visible and negotiable in public space. Through body-based, often minimalist gestures—cleaning, licking, planting, carrying, driving, walking, digging, repeating—Morger exposes invisible labour, overlooked narratives, and ecological entanglements. Many of these actions recur across long-term, serial bodies of work, allowing themes to unfold through repetition, variation, and sustained attention. Slowness, softness, and tactile focus function as critical strategies that challenge normative expectations around bodies, roles, and productivity.
Morger’s works frequently arise from direct engagement with sites shaped by institutional logics, gendered structures, rural realities, and service labour. By transforming everyday actions into subtle disruptions, they both disenchant and re-enchant familiar systems. Intimacy and exposure, presence and absence, announcement and warning overlap fluidly. Their practice proposes alternative forms of togetherness and creates fragile yet resistant spaces of belonging. Morger understands art as a form of care work and as a means of making power relations physically perceptible—not through spectacle, but through gestures that reveal the political within the everyday.
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 an MFA in Fine Arts Practice at The Glasgow School of Art. Morger is artistic co-director of Perrrformat, bringing performance art into public space in and around Zurich, and is active in several collectives and unions advocating for artists’ rights.
In 2020, Morger was a studio fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, received the Manor Art Award (2021), the IBK Prize (2024), and the work year scholarship of the Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein (2026). Their work has been presented at Museum Tinguely, Neues Museum Biel, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunstverein Hannover, Scottish National Galleries.