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Born in 1987, lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland



2019 – 2023
Member of the research project team «Seeking Birdscapes», Lucerne School of Music + Art and Design, Switzerland

2014 – 2016
Master of Arts in Contemporary Arts Practice,
Berne University of the Arts, Switzerland

2008 – 2011
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts,
Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland


I N S T A L L A T I O N S  °  /  P E R F O R M A N C E S  ^


2023
Perform@ Kunstraum Aarau + Kiff– Festival für experimentelle Musik
und Performance, Kunstraum Aarau (CH) ^

2023
8. Biennale Weiertal - Common Ground, Kulturort Weiertal, Winterthur (CH) ^

2023
Graveyard Shift, Schiffbau, Zurich (CH) ^

2023
Festival Mos Espa - Burnout Blackout, Geneva (CH) ^

2023
Treibhaus im Gletschergarten, Luzern (CH) ^

2022
Anlässlich Performancepreis Schweiz - Ankäufe Kommission Bildende Kunst Stadt Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH) ^

2022
Birdscapes, Naturmuseum, Lucerne (CH) °

2022
Echolot, Setpember vin & vinyl , Lucerne (CH) ^

2022
Amboss und Steigbügel, Perronnord , St. Gallen (CH) ^

2022
Akousma 18 Festival, Montréal (CA) ^

2022
Radio Bollwerk x TRNST Radio, Bad Bonn, Düdingen (CH) ^

2022
Listen!, Kaserne Basel (CH) ^

2022
Unguarded x Summer Camp 2022, Clubraum Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH) ^

2022
Museumsnacht, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE) ^

2022
The Listener, sic!elephanthouse, Lucerne (CH) °

2022
Meakusma x Studio Néau, Park Loten Neustrasse, Eupen (BE) ^

2022
Inner Voices. Soundwalks, Innerschweizer Kulturprojekt «Innereien» der Albert Koechlin Stiftung, Central Switzerland (CH) ^

2022
PU$$YNIGHTMARE, La Station – Gare Des Mines, Paris (FR) ^

2022
ZW-B-CE-003, Zentralwäscherei, Zurich (CH) ^

2022
Talk with Urban Landscape, Rindermarkt 23, Zurich (CH) °

2021
Vernissage of «UP UP UP» Uriel Orlow, Fundaziun Nairs (CH) ^

2021
SMEM Listening Session #001, blueFactory, Fribourg (CH) ^

2021
Unknown Place - Martina Lussi/Anita Zumbühl, Galerie Kriens, Lucerne (CH) °

2021
H.o.Me. – Heim für obsolete Medien - Flo Kaufmann & Guests, Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH)

2021
Tonfunktion – Festival für Gebrauchsmusik, EOS Radio, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

2021
Emma Kunz heute. Spezialprogramm zur Finissage, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH) °

2021
PARA - Unset Time and Pace (in collaboration with Tim Shaw), Radio 80000 & online (DE) ^

2021
K_RIEN/REIN_S, Galerie Kriens, Lucerne (CH) °

2020
Festival Variations, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (FR) ^

2020
They Shoot Horses Don`t They? (Selection of music / Live DJ) Theater Aeternam, Südpol, Lucerne (CH) ^

2020
Konnekt Two`s (in collaboration with Tim Shaw), Le Duplex, Geneva (CH) ^

2020
«H» or the Audience (in collaboration with Tim Shaw), Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg (CH) ^

2020
Martina Lussi + Julia Reidy + Aircode, Cafe OTO, London (GB) ^

2019
XMAS Performance Night Out by Istituto Svizzero, Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice (IT) ^

2019
Novas Frequências, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro (BR) ° 

2019
Novas Frequências, Casa de Cultura Villa Maria, Campos, State of Rio de Janeiro (BR) °

2019
Novas Frequências, Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro (BR) ^

2019
Silo, Serrinha do Alambari, State of Rio de Janeiro (BR) ^

2019
Ombre Lunghe, Teatro San Leonardo, Bologna (IT) ^

2019
Attitudes, SALTS, Basel (CH) °

2019
Nonclassical, Coq d`Argent, London (GB) ^

2019
Interzona – House of Mixed Emotions, Theaterspektakel, Zurich (CH) ^

2019
Kraut – Kunstfestival, Lucerne (CH) ^

2019
Les Digitales, Zurich (CH) ^

2019
Opening w/ Martina Lussi, Budka, Tbilisi (GE) ^

2019
Klammklang, Dom, Moscow (RU) ^

2019
Concert Martina Lussi, The Bottle House Stage – New Holland Parc, Saint Petersburg (RU) ^

2019
Krackle#0, Roodkapje, Rotterdam (NL) ^

2019
OK LÀ Festival, Èthel parking lot, Montreal (CA) ^

2019
Swiss Art Awards, Messehalle, Basel (CH) °

2019
Eli Keszler & Martina Lussi – concert présenté par Latency, Le Bal, Paris (FR) ^

2019
Eile mit Weile – Zeit für Performance, Akku/Ort, Emmenbrücke (CH) ^

2019
Stanser Musiktage, Beinhaus, Stans (CH) ^

2019
Sonic Research, Cabane B, Berne (CH) ^

2019
Diffusion is A Force – Album Release Party, Martina Lussi & Kassel Jaeger, zweikommasieben x Latency, Südpol, Lucerne (CH) ^

2018
Celestial Trax (FI), Martina Lussi (CH) presented by Association du Salopard, Le Bourg, Lausanne (CH) ^

2018
Sound. Art. Club. Culture. – Redbull Music Festival Zurich, Schwarzescafé/LUMA Westbau, Zurich (CH) ^

2018
Festival SOY, Arts Museum Nantes, Nantes (FR) ^

2018
Odd Beholder release party, Bogen F, Zurich (CH) ^

2018
Fünf Jahre Neubad, Neubad, Lucerne (CH) ° ^

2018
OOOOR – give it a monopause – 4 Jahre OOR, OOR Records, Zurich (CH) ^

2018
Les Digitales, Nordpol, Lucerne (CH) ^

2018
Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin (DE) ^

2018
Vent x zweikommasieben, Swiss Club Cairo, Cairo (EG) ^

2018
Listening Is Not The Same As Hearing (by Dampfzentrale Bern), Kunsthalle Bar, Bern (CH) ^

2018
B-Sides Festival, Sonnenberg, Lucerne (CH) ^

2018
Radio Picnic, Brussels (BE) ^

2018
Rhizom Festival, Rote Fabrik, Zurich (CH) ^

2018
Point of Resonance (an Exhibition of Timo Ullmann & Marco Baltisberger), Pavillon Tribschenhorn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2018
No Club Sunday (by Strecke), Fribourg (CH) ^

2017
Fortsetzung Folgt - 140 Jahre HSLU D&K (Teil 3: Jonas Etter, Martina Lussi, Peter Roesch, Roman Signer) Kunstplattform Akku, Emmenbrücke (CH) °

2017
Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (CH) °

2017
Hallow Ground Label Showcase (by zweikommasieben) (with Dedekindcut (US), Goner (DE), Martina Lussi (CH)), Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2017
MOTTO Extra Bookshop, DOC, Paris (FR) ^

2017
blind spot - Geräusch und Klang im Raum, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund (DE) °

2017
Signs Fraction, Kunstraum Aarau, Aarau (CH) °

2017
Tape Release of Robert Turman «Veiling Reflections», OOR, Zurich (CH) ^

2017
OTO NOVE SWISS, Café OTO, London (GB) ^

2017
Presentation of «Anti», Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunstbar, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal (CH) ^

2016
Can you play this colour again?, Benzeholz, Meggen (CH) ° ^

2016
Werkbeiträge, Rössligasse, Lucerne (CH) °

2016
Presentation of «Enter», Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2016
AFFAIRE - Festival des Arts, Centre PasquArt, Biel (CH) °

2015
Cantonale Berne Jura, EAC ( les halles ), Porrentruy (CH) °

2015
Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken (CH) °

2015
With zweikommasieben, LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Lausanne (CH) ^

2015
PASSAGE_L, Flatterschaft, Basel (CH) °

2015
What shall we do now? Schwabstrasse 10, Berne (CH) °

2015
Presentation of «Sodalith», Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2014
Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen, Kunstmuseum Lucerne (CH) °

2014
Presentation of «Opal» (Sound for the installation «Komposition für einen Kreis»), Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2014
With the band «Schwer», Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2014
Presentation and Release of the EP «Komposition O08», Klub Kegelbahn, Lucerne (CH) ^

2014
Wonderfuel Zeromoney, Gelbes Haus, Lucerne (CH) °

2013
Caravan Festival 2013, Cairo (EG) °

2012
TRANSFORM - Ein interdisziplinäres Kunstprojekt mit Folgen, Güterstrasse 8, Berne (CH) ° ^

2012
Lost in Tugium, Kunstparcour, Zug (CH) ° ^

2012
Kunstpause, Altstadthalle, Zug (CH) °

2012
Paul, Norman and Eloise, the vegetables on a boat - a show about artists as storytellers, SIC! Raum für Kunst, Lucerne (CH) ° ^

2012
Internationaler Frauentag, 8. März, Zug (CH) °

2011
Aldo Walker auf dem Tandem mit..., Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf (CH) °

2011
Werkschau 2011 HSLU D+K, Messehalle, Lucerne (CH) °

2009
Shift in Progress, Shiftfestival, Basel (CH) °

2009
Praxis Papersaal, Papiersaal, Zurich (CH) °

2009
200-Gang Vernissage, Barfüsser, Lucerne (CH) °



R E S I D E N D C I E S / N O M I N A T I O N S / A W A R D S


2022
“What Remains” was commissioned by the Arts Commission of the City of Lucerne

2020
3-days Residency in collaboration with Tim Shaw at Fri Art to play on the Acousmonium built by Bernard Zitz

2019
Award of «Selective Cultural Sponsorship» section: Music, Canton Lucerne 2019

2019
Resilience Residency, Silo, Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil, 3 weeks: November – December 2019

2019
Nomination for Swiss Art Awards 2019

2019
Residency at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, Visarte Zentralschweiz, 6 month: January – June 2019

2018
Research Residency in Cairo, Egypt, Pro Helvetia, 1 month:  14th July – 14th August 2018

2016
Nomination for «Werkbeiträge» (Selective Cultural Sponsorship, section: Fine Arts), Canton Lucerne 2016

2013
Residency in Cairo, Egypt, SKK & City of Zug, 6 months: February – July 2013



R E L E A S E S


2015
«Sodalith» (digital audio), Soundcloud

2014
«Komposition M1» & «Komposition M2» (digital audio), Soundcloud

2014
«Komposition 008» (Vinyl EP & digital), Präsens Editionen, Lucerne

2013
«MARS Epilog*2 A Play» (magazine), Präsens Editionen, Lucerne

2012
«MARS Epilog*1 Wendung» (magazine) , Präsens Editionen, Lucerne

2011
«Tandem» (exhibition catalogue), Verlag Martin Wallimann Lucerne



C U R A T I O N   P R O J E C T S


2019 – 2020  
«Roller Coaster» bimestrial show on LYL Radio

2018
«Chairs, Speakers, Sparse Light» (A curation project together with Remo Bitzi) Artists: Félicia Atkinson (FR), Lawrence English (AU), Koen Holtkamp (NL/US), Franziska Lingg (CH), Hagar Masoud (EG), Shayu + σφαιρικό (CH), Nika Son (DE)
Sic! Raum für Kunst, Lucerne



I  L I VE  M O R E  T H A N  O N E  L I F E


2011 –
Parallel to my artistic activities I work in the library of the Lucerne School of Art & Design.

2021 – 
... and since 2021 I also work for the Central Library of Lucerne (ZHB) for the Lucerne Open Access Repository