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UBERMORGEN

Biography

UBERMORGEN (‘the day after tomorrow’, CH/AT/US, *1995) is an artist collective with a steady ascending worldwide presence, a synthesis of autistic actionist lizvlx aka Liz Haas (she) & hyperactive visionary Lúzius Bernhard (they). Net.art pioneers, master deducers’, and media hackers’ are widely recognized for their online actionism, haute couture websites & NFTs, their polarizing social experiments, radical empathy, dark AI, nonbinary primitivism, conceptual research. Artfacts call their work ‘ultra contemporary’.

CNN called them 'Maverick Austrian Business People' during their Vote-Auction project, reaching 500 million worldwide & challenging the FBI, CIA, & NSA (US presidential election 2000). A series of conceptual hacks (EKMRZ Trilogy, 2005-08) shook the foundations of the dominating e-commerce giants: ‘Google Will Eat Itself’, ‘Amazon Noir’, & ‘The Sound of eBay’. In 2021, ‘The Next Biennial Should be Curated by a Machine’ used AI-TikTikPop to catapult visitors into 64 twisted parallel universes. Today ‘UNINVITED’ AI Horror Film and crypto Art collide to create deeply nostalgic synthetic organisms, and ‘The D1cks’, hand-pixelated 1 of 1 Haute Couture NFTs reveal ‘L‘Origine du pixel’ and are leveraged by indirect Art Washing commissions such as PMC Wagner Arts.

UBERMORGEN's work has been exhibited worldwide, often in digital spaces. Exhibitions: Liverpool Biennial, Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou, Gwangju Biennale, Louvre Paris, Biennale of Sydney, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, MOCA Taipei, ICA Miami, The National Museum of China, Serpentine Galleries, Kunsthal Aarhus, Chronus Shanghai, Museo Reina Sofia, New Museum, Somerset House, Haifa Museum of Art, The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, HKWei-Ling Kuala Lumpur, HKW Berlin, ZKM, HMKV, National Art Gallery Sofia, Ars Electronica, The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, ArtScience Singapore, 3331 Tokyo, WRO Media Art Biennale, Prague Biennale, ICC Tokyo.