Marco Donnarumma is dressed with a black jacket and standing in front of a blue wall.
© Photo by Dario J. Lagana' / norte.it

Marco Donnarumma

  • Berlin Science Week
  • 2025
  • Artist/Performer

Marco Donnarumma is an artist, inventor and theorist. His oeuvre confronts normative body politics with uncompromising counter-narratives, where bodies are in tension between control and agency, presence and absence, grace and monstrosity. Described by Der Standard as a pioneer of performing arts with advanced technologies, he is best known for using sound, AI, biosensors, and robotics to turn the body into a site of resistance and transformation. He has presented his work in thirty-seven countries across Asia, Europe, North and South America and is the recipient of numerous accolades, most notably the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education's Artist of the Science Year 2018, and the Prix Ars Electronica's Award of Distinction in Sound Art 2017. With Margherita Pevere he runs the performance duo Fronte Vacuo.