(She/Her)
Martina Menegon (Italy, 1988) is an artist, curator, educator and researcher predominantly working with Interactive, Virtual and Extended Reality Art.
Martina Menegon currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
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
- Senior Artist, Transmedia Art , University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Lecture: “Digital Design & Virtuality”)
- PhD Researcher, University of Applied Arts, Vienna & Johannes Kepler University, Linz
- 2021 Guest Critic, 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)
- 2021 - 2023 Vice Director and Curator, CIVA Festival, Vienna
- 2021 - 2024 Head of Extended Reality and Curator, Area for Virtual Art
- 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 “familiar strangers”, DFC - Digital Francisco Carolinum, online
- 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
- 2019 “Open Frame: Martina Menegon”, sound:frame and Artivive, 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
- 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)
- 2022 - “untouched (v.n.)”, Performing identities, performingidentities.net, online
- 2021 - “It’s a matter of Perspective”, The bardo: Unpacking the Real, Feral File, online
- 2021 - “familiar strangers”, Paradoxical objects. Video Sculpture Art from 1960 to today, peer-to-space, online
- 2020 - “so much for self control!”, SPAMM - SuPer Modern Art Museum, online
- 2020 - “all alone, together”, A Virtual Utopia, Area for Virtual Art, online
- 2019 - “the rapture of the self”, harddiskmuseum, online / various locations
- 2019 - “Heads off me!”, CUBE - Virtual Gallery for Virtual Art, Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zurig
- 2016 - “Virtual Narcissism”, Museum Of Virtual Art II, online
- 2016 - “I’ll Keep You Warm and Safe”, Paper-Thin V2 Gallery, online
- 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 “[DATUMS]“, XOR Space, online
- 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
- 2023 “Performance Anxiety”, Verse Works, online
- 2023 “POSTGENDER. human after all”, Vellum LA x NFT Biennal, Los Angeles
- 2022 “A NEW BEGINNING”, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin
- 2022 “Virtually Real”, VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, Köln, Germany
- 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 “UNPROTECTED”, Epoch Gallery, 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 “Lossless (Bodies)”, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online
- 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
- 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 “Uncanny Reality Festival”, Symposium Lindabrunn
- 2021 “Free Spaces. A New Social”, Creative Days Vienna and sound:frame, online
- 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
- 2024 “Focus: Artificial Intelligence”, BMKÖS
- 2023 “HYBRID BODIES - about “falling asleep”, Kika Nicolela, Objkt.One
- 2023 “BILDSCHRIMZEIT. Künstliche Intelligenz und Kunstschaffen”, Johanna Hofleitner, Kultur Magazine / Die Presse, October 2023
- 2023 Exploring Digital Bodies and Identities, Interview by Margaret Murphy, Expanded.Art
- 2022 “Play Matters”, Exhibition Essay, Martina Menegon
- 2022 Interview with Luca Miranda, VRAL / Milan Machinima Festival (online)
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH”, Marie Chatel, Filippo Lorenzin, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art
- 2022 “The affective flows of the sublime in Martina Menegon's new machinic subjectivity”, Grant Petrey, New Techno Humanities
- 2022 “Embodied Structures: Join the map to reinvent yourself”, Victor Cos Ortega, artmagazine.cc
- 2022 “La prima mostra nella galleria digitale di Virginia Bianchi”, Matteo Lupetti, Artribune
- 2022 “when you are close to me I shiver”, generazione critica
- 2022 “Embodied Structures: Curatorial Statement”, Martina Menegon and Eva Fischer, online
- 2021 “222 EMERGING ARTISTS WORTH INVESTING IN 2021”, critical essay by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Exibart Editions, 2021
- 2021 “Art Layers: 10 art filters for Artribune. Interview with Martina Menegon”, Valentina Tanni, Artribune
- 2021 “Tangled Together in an Age of Virus”, Charlotte Kent, clotmag
- 2021 “The Bardo: Unpacking the (un)Real”, Charlotte Kent, The Brooklyn Rail
- 2021 Interview with Boris Magrini / HeK - House of Electronic Arts, online
- 2021 “LUDIFIED. Artistic Research in Audiovisual Composition, Performance and Perception”, Marko Ciciliani, Barbara Lüneburg and Andreas Pirchner, the Green Box
- 2021 “The Art of Digital CurationCo-operative Stewardship of Net-Based Art”, Colin Post, Archivaria n.92
- 2021 Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation, Annet Dekker
- 2020 “Klimakrise in der Kunst: 'Vielleicht muss ein Werk schockieren'”, Barbara Schechtner, Die Presse (online)
- 2020 “Klimasorgen und Zukunftsängste auf die Leinwand”, Die Presse, p.25
- 2020 “exhibit!”, Kunstforum International n.270, p.313
- 2020 “A Short History of Self-Representation in Digital Art”, Tina Sauerländer, International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 5
- 2020 “Networked Alternatives: Digital Curation and Artistic Production on Artist-Run Platforms”, PhD Colin Post, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ProQuest Dissertations Publishing
- 2020 “When You Are Close To Me I Shiver”, Annemarie Harant and Roman Mesicek, Tonspur N
- 2020 “Virtuelle Konferenz Tools als Alternative zu Zoom und Co”, Andreas Fraunberger, www.jungeroemer.net
- 2020 “Digital Creative Talks #3 - Martina Menegon”, Andreas Fraunberger, www.jungeroemer.net
- 2019 “Snap Your Identity”, Justine Hoffmann / Kunstverein Wolfsburg
- 2018 “Martina Menegon in three dimensions”, Fabbula, Fisheye Magazine France n.28, p132
- 2018 “refresh02_#Layers”, Fabio Paris / iMal Brussels
- 2018 “The body is the message”, FILE Festival, São Paulo
- 2018 “Digital Sculpture. Follow the Unknown”, Institute of digital Art, Museum Ulm
- 2017 “selfciety. Self-presentation and self-perception in the digital age”, whiteBOX, Munich
- 2025 “Digital Humanism Conference – Shaping our digital future”, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
- 2023 “Objkt.one talks with Martina Menegon”, online
- 2023 “Trailblazing Realities: Female Pioneers in the History of Virtual Reality“, AA School of Architecture, London / online
- 2023 “Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges” symposium, HNK Rijeka Academy, Rijeka
- 2023 “Immersive Encounters. Journeying into Avatars & Social Virtual (Art) Worlds”, Summer School “Storytelling in Virtual Reality”, University of Antwerp / online
- 2023 “Challenging Physical Boundaries. exploring hybridity and site-specificity in digital art “, MMMAD Festival, Madrid
- 2023 “Objkt talks to: Martina Menegon”, online
- 2022 “AR, Augmented Reality”, TokenHausBerlin, online
- 2022 “discussing art nfts: presenting IN TOUCH Berlin”, verticalcrypto, online
- 2022 “Exhibiting Immersive Art (online and offline)”, XRMust, online
- 2022 “Glitched Identity, Extended Self, Augmented Body”, Improper Walls, Vienna
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH: Artist talk”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
- 2022 “(DO NOT) TOUCH: Curators and Artist Tour”, MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, online
- 2022 “Discussing Art NFTs: Interactive Art”, verticalcrypto, online
- 2022 CIVA Festival Curators Tour, Creative Days Vienna, Vienna / various locations
- 2021 “File Exchange 08: Martina Menegon”, Colette Robbins and Sophie Kahn, online
- 2021 “Virtual Reality Art”, SALOON Network, online
- 2021 “Metamorphosis 2.0”, Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, online
- 2021 Ludic Method Soirée, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2021 “Keeping up with the Metaverse”, synthesis gallery, re:publica, online
- 2020 “The Virtual as Public Space and Stage to Perform Identity”, ChampdAction.LAbO
- 2020 “The Contemporary Self and its Synthetic Corporeality”, Digital Arts, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2020 “synthesis WALKTHROUGHS: Martina Menegon”, synthesis gallery, online
- 2020 “The Contemporary Self and its Synthetic Corporeality”, KISD - Köln International School of Design
- 2020 “Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise”, Kara Agora - Online Art & Research Center, online
- 2020 “Digital Wine / S1E5 - Hubs and Metaverse”, Digital Wine, online
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka
- 2019 “Challenges of Humanity and the Creative Use of XR”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art Practice”, AIL - Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2019 “Culture & Creativity in the Digital Age”, Creative Days Vienna, REAKTOR, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art Practice”, Creative Days Vienna, REAKTOR, Vienna
- 2019 11th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience Harnack House, Berlin
- 2019“Walk-on-the-wild-side: Beyond Walking in Virtual Spaces”, Shared Walks: Social Design Symposium, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- 2019 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, Diagonale, Graz
- 2018 “Selfie Culture Symposium”, Art University, Linz
- 2018 “Synthetic Corporeality in Contemporary Art”, IAM, Graz
- 2018 “Self-portrait and AI in Media Art”, Oberbank Donau-Forum, Linz
- 2017 “Mixed Reality Aesthetics”, London College of Fashion, London
- 2016 “Research Salon - Virtual Reality”, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
- 2016 “Narration in Virtual Reality”, Retune Festival, Berlin