Known for her otherworldly work with living matter, ecology and biotechnology, Margherita Pevere is an artist and researcher addressing taboos like death, sex and vulnerability. Her practice embraces object-making, installation, performance, and writing, which she waves seamlessly thanks to her transdisciplinary background. 

A member of the Bioart Society since 2017, her dialogue with the society and its cosmos has unfolded through workshops, shows, art talks, and the publications Art as We Don't Know It (2018, Edited by Erich Berger, Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka, Kira O'Reilly and Helena Sederholm) and Follow the Plants (2026, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore).

Her project Lament on wildfire ecologies received the COAL Prize Transformative territories mention 2024 and she was finalist at the Falling Walls Awards Category Art and Science 2023 for the body of work around her concept ‘arts of vulnerability’.
Among her initiatives there are the performance group Fronte Vacuo, which she runs with Marco Donnarumma; the series Krude Kunst. which she runs at her Berlin studio, and the exhibition Membranes Out Of Order, co-curated with Theresa Schubert and Karolina Żyniewicz. She is a member of Queer Death Studies Network and affiliated researcher of The Eco- and Bioart Lab. 
Her artworks have been shown at Ars Electronica (AT); Art Laboratory Berlin (DE); iMAL - Center for digital cultures and technology (BE); Foundation L’Art Pur (KSA); Kapelica Gallery (SI); Kiasma Theatre (FI);  KONTEJNER (HR); Radialsystem (DE); Kunstquartier Bethanien (DE); Münchner Kammerspiele (DE); Volstheater Wien (AT); Wiener Festwochen (AT); among others.

Recent art and science partnerships include the EC JRC; the Department Experimental Immunology at HZI; and the Ecological Novelty Group at the FU Berlin. She holds a doctorate in artistic research from Aalto University. Her publications cover arts, aesthetics, and environmental humanities.

 

Image: Lament, by Margherita Pevere. Photo by Romane Iskaria.