Marta Wörner (1990, Madrid) is a Rotterdam-based performance artist with a focus on performance art research and expanded choreography. With a background in audiovisual communication and choreography, her practice unfolds through counter-spectacular, site-responsive works that transform ordinary gestures into spaces of shared attention, vulnerability, and subtle resistance.
Her artistic output spans site-specific performances, installations, films, and publications. Across these formats, she develops undisciplinary vocabularies informed by dance-based research, speculative philosophy, and visual art. Her work often emerges through scores, collective warm-ups, and performative situations that invite embodied forms of thinking and being together.
Deeply influenced by cinematographic language, she approaches choreography as a process of composition akin to filmmaking. She works with slow temporalities, attention to texture and light, and a careful framing of perspective and editing. Screens are often used as active elements that echo, magnify, or complicate live action, generating layered perceptual experiences.
Her recent research interrogates the status of multimedia documentation within her practice, exploring how traces, recordings, and mediated extensions of performance can be activated and recontextualized as autonomous artworks.
She holds a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid and an MA in Choreography from Codarts and Fontys Universities (NL), where she currently works as a mentor and assessor.
Her work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including the Madrid and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Cinedans (Amsterdam), Boulevard Theater Festival (Den Bosch), TENT (Rotterdam), Artelaguna Prize (Italy), the Arsenale of Venice, The Gray Space
Invisible dances for everyday survivors
Invisible dances for everyday survivors is the result of collaboration between 4 artists with differing backgrounds and practices, such as choreography, music composition and visual art. Throughout accesible scores, stories, illustrations and games, this booklet invites us to connect in surprising and unreasonable ways to ourselves, others, and the space around us.
Earthrise at Om, Ohm, Omega exhibition
Earthrise is a site-specific performance that flourished from the collaboration between the artists Marta Wörner and Gabriel Lester.
Earthrise unfolds as a physical misinterpretation of gravity. It is inspired by the tensional game between forces displayed by the architecture of the Electriciteitsfabriek.
Strata
Strata is a physical reflection on the means, strengths and paradoxes of inhabiting a common delimited space with shared rules, a critical ode to unity. The piece is influenced by the study of the Schuman Declaration in 1950, the breeding ground for the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, Europe's first supranational Community.
Falling in, notes on body, space and matter
Falling in. Notes on body, space and matter is an interdisciplinary performance that takes place in between a mobile visual installation, two dancers, one hostess, and the audience.
It is a site-specific artwork in which the textures, architecture and soundscape are used to deconstruct our cognitive experience of the performative space and play with its boundaries.
The work emerged from the practice-led research 'Between control and uncertainty' (2017-2019)