Margherita Pevere
Margherita Pevere
Credit: Veronika Hubert Natter
With a visceral fascination for biological matter, Margherita Pevere (DE) is an artist and researcher. Bacteria, animals and plants are her allies in the exploration of underlying theme of ecological complexity, which she pursues with sophisticated bodily aesthetics. Created both in the studio and in biological laboratories, Pevere’s installations and performances are chimeras intertwining poetics and controversy, critique and desire.
Based between Berlin and Helsinki, Pevere is PhD candidate (Artistic Research) at Aalto University, Helsinki, in collaboration with Biofilia Laboratory – Base for biological arts, supported by the Finnish National Agency for Education (2018) and Kone Foundation (2019–2020). She is member of the Finnish Bioart Society, the Eco- and Bioart Research Network, and the Posthumanities Hub. In 2019, she founded the artist group Fronte Vacuo with Marco Donnarumma and Andrea Familari.
Most recent shows include Experiment Future, Kunsthalle Rostock (DE); Emergent Form, the Fields Institute for Research in mathematical Sciences, Toronto (CA); What is life?, Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki (FI). In 2018 she was awarded the Digital Art Award of Romaeuropa Festival (with Marco Donnarumma) and the Honorable Mention at the Share Prize. She is recipient of the 2019 European Media Art Platforms EMARE production grant at KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis.