About

Marvin Flores Unger is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose practice explores the intersection of industrial processes, technological narratives, and everyday life, particularly in peripheral, rural, and digital spaces. His work translates complex research into spatial installations, audiovisual works, and performative situations, often proposing speculative or alternative modes of living.

Completed projects include the hybrid outdoor installation Soft Talk in Utrecht/Netherlands and the audiovisual documentation Membranes as part of the exhibition GEO-DESIGN: COVID-19. Traveling without moving, both in 2020, and the amphibious object and performance Para Sites at the Current Festival 2021 in Stuttgart/Germany. In 2022, he showed an A.I.-generated video piece in the solo exhibition Post Motor City S at Oberwelt e.V.. He also co-initiated the experimental music festival New Normal 2022 at Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V., featuring international musicians including Smerz, HHY & The Kampala Unit and Will Guthrie.

Unger was part of AMO, Rem Kohlhaas’ think tank, from autumn 2019 to spring 2020, where he was involved in the research and design of the exhibition Countryside, The Future at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, NY/USA. In the summer of 2018, he assisted the paris-based design studio BLESS with the design and realization of the exhibition Neutra Dasein at the R. Neutra VDL House in Los Angeles, CA/USA.

Marvin Flores Unger was the recipient of a fellowship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2022. He was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2023/2024.

©2025

Selection Exhibitions

03.10.25–29.10.25, Hyper-/Un-/Sur-Real, Group Exhibition, Eberhardstraße 28, Stuttgart, Germany.

04.04.25, Pflastersteine als Brücken, Audiovisual Performance, ( ( NYT ) ), Berlin, Germany.

08.12.23–10.12.23, Flying Carpet Shop, Group Exhibition, FRISE, Hamburg, Germany.

01.12.23, Winterfest mit Open Studios, Group Exhibition, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

16.11.23–26.11.23, Between Normals, Group Exhibition, S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

28.07.23, UMWELT, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Participation as Curator and Exhibition Designer, Kula, Konstanz, Germany.

20.05.23–26.11.23, Open for Maintenance, ARCH+, Participation as Exhibition Design Support, Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice, Italy.

04.11.22–12.11.22, Post Motor City S, Solo Exhibition, Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart, Germany.

02.09.22–04.09.22, New Normal 2022, Culture and Music Festival, Participation as Creative Director and Co-Founder, Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V., Stuttgart, Germany.

12.09.21–19.09.21, Current Stuttgart, Group Exhibition, Neckarinsel, Stuttgart, Germany.

13.11.20–07.03.21, Living Apart Together, Group Exhibition, RAUM, Utrecht, Netherlands.

15.10.20–15.10.21, GEO—DESIGN: COVID-19. Travelling without moving., Design Academy Eindhoven, Group Exhibition, Online.

20.02.20–14.08.20, Countryside, The Future, AMO, OMA, Participation as Researcher and Exhibition Designer, S.R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY/USA.

21.06.19, City Circles Amsterdam, Group Exhibition, WOW, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

28.07.18–08.09.18, N°63 Neutra Dasein, BLESS, Participation as Exhibition Designer/Production Assistance, Neutra VDL, Los Angeles, CA/USA.

21.06.17, Less automotive is more interesting, Group Exhibition, ENSCI – Les Ateliers, Paris, France.

12.04.16–17.04.16, Più di Pegoretti, Group Exhibition, Salone del Mobile 2016, Rossignoli, Milan, Italy.

Selection Stipends

01.06.23–31.05.24, Artist in Residence, Working Stipend, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.

01.05.22–31.10.22, Post Motor City S, Working Stipend, Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany.

16.12.21–31.12.22, New Normal 2022, Project Fund, Impulsprogramm Kultur trotz Corona, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany.

Selection Lectures

23.05.22, (Un)certain Future – collective Angst?, Architecture in the Age of Anxiety, IGmA, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Selection Press

2020, Singleton, E.. (2020, November 14). GEO-DESIGN | DAMN° Magazine. DAMN° Magazine. https://damnmagazine.net/covid19-travelling-without-moving

2020, Design Academy Eindhoven. (2020) GEO—DESIGN Exhibition Platform | Membranes. https://geodesign.online/archive/projects/membranes