Martina Menegonartist, curator, educator, RESEARCHER
(She/Her)

Martina Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator, educator and researcher based in Vienna, Austria, predominantly working with Transmedia, Interactive, Digital/Post-Digital, and Extended Reality Art. 

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
ARTEMIS Gallery, Lisbon (contact: info@artemis-gallery.net)

EDUCATION
2007 - 2010 B.A., Visual and Performing Arts, IUAV University, Venice
2010 - 2016 Diploma, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna


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CURRENT POSITIONS
 ACADEMIC POSITIONS
 OTHER POSITIONS
 SOLO EXHIBITIONS  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS  COLLECTIONS / PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS
 CURATORIAL  PUBLICATIONS

PRESS  TALKS  WORKSHOPS  RESIDENCIES


CURRENT POSITIONS

  • Senior Artist, Transmedia Art , University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: “Digital Design & Virtuality”)
  • PhD Researcher, University of Applied Arts, Vienna & Johannes Kepler University, Linz
ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • 2025 Guest Ctitic,  Architectural Design 2 / Studio Space Popular,  University of Applied Arts, Vienna
  • 2021 Guest Lecturer, Experimental Game Culture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: Embodied structures — Genderplay? A possible collaboration on Avatarik)
  • 2011 - 2021 Assistant Professor, Multimedia Arts, IUAV University, Venice
  • 2020 - 2021 Guest Lecturer, Institute for Experimental Architecture (./studio3), Innsbruck University, Innsbruck (Lecture: Virtual Reality)
  • 2018 - 2020 Univ.Assistant, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
  • 2016 - 2018 Univ. Lecturer, Transmedia Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
  • 2016 - 2019 Univ. Lecturer, Interactive and Time-Based Arts, Art University, Linz (Lecture: Introduction to Interactive Art)
  • 2016 Univ. Lecturer, Master in Interactive Art, IUAV University, Venice (Lecture: Intro to MaxMSP and Unity3D)
OTHER POSITIONS

  • 2025 Jury, Students Biennale of Digital Sculpture,  Digital Sculpture Studio /Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
  • 2023 Jury, Pixel, Bytes + Film 2024, Vienna
  • 2021 - 2023 Vice Director and Curator, CIVA Festival, Vienna
  • 2021 - 2024 Head of Extended Reality and Curator, Area for Virtual Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024 “you know me so well”, Galeria17, Pristina in collaboration with  Ars Electronica
  • 2023 “I’m sorry I made you feel that way”, Discotec, Vienna
  • 2023 “falling asleep”, objkt.one, online
  • 2023 “Untouched”, TSI Harland Snodgrass Gallery / Alfred University, New York
  • 2023 “It feels like home”, The Void / University of Victoria, Victoria - Canada
  • 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, Cultural Information Center, Zagreb
  • 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, VRAL / Machinima Festival, online
  • 2022 “untouched”, FILTRO / Metronom, Modena
  • 2021 “when you are close to me I shiver”, Spark Art Fair, Marx Halle, Vienna
  • 2021 “It feels like home”, HeK Net Works, HeK - House of Electronic Arts, online
  • 2020 “when you are close to me I shiver”, MAK, Vienna and online
  • 2020 “all alone, together”, Angewandte Schauraum / MQ, Vienna and online
  • 2020 “What remains of myself”, k48, Vienna
  • 2018 “all around me are familiar faces, Zigutamve-Photography, Vienna
  • 2017 “It suits me well”, GPL Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
  • 2016 “Virtual Narcissism”, GPL Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

  • 2025 “Hyper-Myths, Counter-Rituals”, Artemis Gallery, Vienna
  • 2025 “Somatic Identities”, White Box, Friedrichshafen
  • 2025 “Covalent Bonds”, Grey Area Festival, San Francisco
  • 2025 “Mechanical  Bodies”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
  • 2025 “The Second Guess. Body Anxiery in the Age of AI”, Virtual HEK, online
  • 2025 “Interiors”, ctrl gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2024 “RealMix and Domo Lleno Festival”, Bogotá Planetarium, Bogotá
  • 2024 “coded manoeuvres_sticky web”,  CIVA Festival / Belvedere21, Vienna
  • 2024 “Beyond  Human”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
  • 2023 “And We Gonna Crash It When Nobody’s Home”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
  • 2023 “Becoming-Machine“, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, Artsect DAO Gallery, London & online
  • 2023 “Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges”, Gallery Kortil – HKD Exhibition, Rijeka
  • 2023 “Digital Dada”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
  • 2023 ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen
  • 2023 “Digital Dreams“, biennale ARTour, Musée de la Mine et du Développement durable, Bois-du-Luc / Belgium
  • 2023 “More Than Human”, Blanc Art Space A1, Beijing 
  • 2023 “A BEATING HEART. FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART”, Expanded.Art, Berlin
  • 2023 Tezos NFT Summit, Spring Studios, New York
  • 2023 “CADENZA”, MEET Center, Milano and online
  • 2022 “Unlimited Creations part 3”, Artemis Gallery, online
  • 2022 “AN DER TAFEL - Visionen der Medienkunst 11”, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
  • 2022 “ARNKEPHTCKFCR”, ALBA Gallery, JUPITER Hamburg, Hamburg
  • 2022 “DIGITAL I - ARTEFAKTE”, Fotogalerie Wien, hosted by Ostlicht Galerie, Vienna
  • 2022 DAFA Digital Art Fair, Hong Kong
  • 2022 “IN TOUCH: ART IN THE AGE OF POST NFTism“, despace, Berlin
  • 2022 “Post and experimental Photography on the Tezos Blockchain”, Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2022 “DIGITAL SELF”, Jano Lapin Gallery, Toronto and online
  • 2022 Kiaf - Korean International Art Fair, Seoul
  • 2022 “Future Bodies”, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 2022 ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen 
  • 2022 “Meta.space. Visions of space”, Francisco Carolinum, Linz 
  • 2022 “Unsigned”, online
  • 2022 “Kleiner Gottesgarten”, festival ORTSTERMIN, Berlin
  • 2022 “LichtZeitLabor”, Kunsthalle Faust, Kröpke Uhr - Hannover
  • 2022 “Unlimited Creation part 2”, Artemis Gallery, DIT., Vienna
  • 2022 “Revolution V52 - L’odyssée Digitale”, Digital Zone, Marseille / L’unique - Musée Dehors, Caen
  • 2022 “Nowhere in particular - experience near death experience”, Room69,  RaumD / MQ, Vienna
  • 2022 “Unlimited Creations”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
  • 2022 “COPY ME!”, Galerie Wundersee, Düsseldorf
  • 2022 “MELTING BO(UN)D(AR)IES”, Mock Jungle, Bologna
  • 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
  • 2022 “Take My Hand And I'll Show You What Was And Will Be”, ALBA Gallery, Vienna
  • 2022 “UN/CUBE x VR: Six II Universes”, UN/CUBE, online
  • 2022 “Rechannelled Corporeality”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, online
  • 2021 “connections unplugged, bodies rewired”, das weisse haus, Vienna and online
  • 2021 “Stack overflow: experience near death experience”, r00m69 x Wrong Biennale, New Art City, online
  • 2021 “Incarnations”, Les Rencontres d’Arles, d’Arles and online
  • 2021 “Warped Passages”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery x Dumbo Space, Bologna
  • 2021 Tabor Film Festival, Veliki Tabor, Desinić
  • 2021 Uncanny Reality Festival, Symposium Lindabrunn
  • 2021 “Subterranean Virtualscapes”, Virginia Bianchi Gallery, online
  • 2021 “Art Layers”, Artribune, online
  • 2021 “Bubbles and Borders - boundaries of digital freedom”, Leeremptyblank, online
  • 2021 “Synthetic Corpo-reality”, MEET Center, Milano and online
  • 2021 “Tautologies”, bb15, Linz
  • 2020 “FEELINGS”, Synthesis Gallery, online
  • 2020 “12th Atelier”, URXZone and Casa degli Artisti, online
  • 2020 “A virtual Utopia, Area For Virtual Art”, online
  • 2020 “Real Body - Virtual Body”, RectoVRso, online
  • 2020 “FROM NOSE TO COAST”, _____TIM NOLAS, Vienna
  • 2020 “Search for… Feminism”, VBKÖ, Vienna
  • 2020 “Navigieren im Postdigitalen”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
  • 2019 “Körperwende: From Nam June Paik to Hiroshi Ishiguro”, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
  • 2019 “Harddiskmuseum V.10”, EP7, Paris
  • 2019 “Church of Ego”, U10, Belgrade
  • 2019 “Transmedia Art Made My Day”, Parallel Vienna,Vienna
  • 2019 “Unsafe+Sounds Interlude”, Steinergasse 8, Vienna
  • 2019 “Snap Your Identity”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
  • 2019 “Toronto New Wave”, Daniels Spectrum, Toronto
  • 2019 “passing by”, University of Applied Arts - Atrium, Vienna
  • 2019 “Sensorium Festival”, Pistori palace, Bratislava
  • 2019 “Animated_currency_01.gif”, Suzie Shride, Vienna
  • 2019 “VR Focus”, Diagonale, Graz
  • 2019 “SPAMM Philosophy”, Mapils Gallery, Naples
  • 2019 “Poison Ivy”, Franz-Josef-Kai 3, Vienna
  • 2018 “This Could Be You”, Overkill Festival, Amsterdam
  • 2018 “Mixed Reality Uncovered: AR & VR in the Art & Cultural sector”, CC De Grote Post, Oostende
  • 2018 “Church of VR”, VR Days Europe, De Kromhouthal, Amsterdam
  • 2018 “New Materialities in the Digital Age”, Harlesden High Street, London
  • 2018 Process Festival, TYDE Studios, Dortmund
  • 2018 Vienna Design Week, Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Sophienspital, Vienna
  • 2018 Peephole Cinema, 97 Wilson Ave, Brooklyn
  • 2018 Open Source Festival, Galopprennbahn, Düsseldorf
  • 2018 FILE VR ART, Fiesp Cultural Center, São Paulo
  • 2018 “Twisted Sides”, Art House Gallery, Brno
  • 2018 re:publica 18, Station Berlin, Berlin
  • 2018 “#LAYERS Contemporary Art in the Digital Era”, La Raffinerie, Brussels
  • 2018 VR Days, Goethe Institute, Munich
  • 2018 “Digital Sculpture - Follow the unknown”, Museum Ulm, Ulm
  • 2017 GENERATE! Festival, Veranstaltungen der Shedhalle, Tübingen
  • 2017 “Baa’17 Live Performance”, Filmcasino, Vienna
  • 2017 “PROCESSING”, Gallery GPL Contemporary, Vienna
  • 2017 “Empty Vessels || Vulnerable Bodies”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
  • 2017 “Whitebox @ Artmuc”, Artmuc Kunstmesse, Munich
  • 2017 “Symbols of Trouble”, Thayaland Gallery, Siegharts
  • 2017 “Uncanny Conditions - Virtual Reality Exhibition”, whitebox, Munich
  • 2017 “Bubbling Universes”, FILE Festival, Fiesp Cultural Center, São Paolo
  • 2017 “Invasive - Video Art exhibition in private spaces”, medienkunstverein, Berlin
  • 2017 “DREUSECHSFUENF #2”, Ateliertheater, Vienna
  • 2017 “Foam Fusion”, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
  • 2017 “Draft System”, WRO Biennale,  Ballestrem Palace, Wrocław
  • 2017 “Selfcity”, whitebox, Munich
  • 2017 “Matter and Lightness”, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
  • 2017 “Social Distortion”, ArtWall, Athens
  • 2017 “Everything is a Remix”, whitebox, Munich
  • 2016 “TEDxViennaSalon: The Future of Intimacy”, MAK, Vienna
  • 2016 “(Dis)Connected Forms: Narratives on the Fractured Self”, University of Hull, Hull (UK)
  • 2016 “Synthetic Resonances”, Assembly Point, London
  • 2016 “Homeostasis Lab”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
  • 2016 “To Draw a Bow to Bend a Line”, Fotogalerie, Vienna
COLLECTIONS  PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

  • 2022 - “Unsigned: Martina Menegon”, Francisco Carolinum Linz (digital collection)
  • 2022 - “not again, not anymore”, UNPROTECTED, epoch.gallery, online
  • 2022 - “untouched.257842“, video, ed 1/3, private collection (Germany)
  • 2019 - “the rapture of the self”, harddiskmuseum, online / various locations
CURATORIAL

  • 2025 “TRANSCENDENCE. Beyond bodies, between realities” University of Applied Arts Vienna / Transmedia Arts, online
  • 2025 “Soft Boundaries, Shifting Bodies. On Transitions, Translations, and the Spaces In Between”, University of Applied Arts Vienna / Transmedia Arts, Vienna
  • 2023 “Intangible Care”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, Belvedere21, Vienna
  • 2022 “#cyber-rituals @hyper-self”, Kargl Permanent, Vienna
  • 2022 “Embodied Structures”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, Belvedere21, Vienna
  • 2021 “Expanded Realities and Networked Voices”, CIVA Festival Exhibition, online
  • 2020 “Experiencing Extended Realities”, Vienna Design Week, Area for Virtual Art, online
  • 2019 “Poetics of Uncertainty: Claire Hentschker”, AFK, suzieshride, Vienna
  • 2019 “Old Habits: Line F. Jensen”, AFK, suzieshride, Vienna
  • 2019 “Hyperartefakte: Xavier Gschnitzer”, AFK, 36|Projectcell, Vienna
  • 2019 “And When I: Enrico Zago”,  AFK, 36|Projectcell, Vienna
PUBLICATIONS (selection)

  • 2025 “Hyper-Myths, Counter-Rituals“, Exhibition Essay, Artemis Gallery, Vienna
  • 2024 “Focus: Artificial Intelligence”, BMKÖS 
  • 2022 “Play Matters”, Exhibition Essay, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon

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