Margherita Soldati is an Amsterdam-based artist, researcher and co-founder of Absurd Beings and Burning Steps, working across performance, installation, and writing. Her practice operates at the intersection of ecology, immunology, and political infrastructures of care. She approaches the body not as subject matter but as a research apparatus and a site where environmental, agricultural, and medical systems become legible through contact. Her work explores how regimes of optimisation, sterility, and control shape organic life and human subjectivity. Working across greenhouses, laboratories, and exhibition spaces, she develops embodied methodologies that test proximity, exposure, and incompatibility. Drawing on scientific collaboration and critical theory, she engages material processes such as cultivation, extraction, and contamination, treating plant, soil, blood, and other matter as active participants in relational ecologies. Rather than resolving tensions, her practice sustains those between care and control, intimacy and antagonism, survival and system.

She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, and she is currenly finishing a MA in artistic research at KABK. Margherita has taught and mentored at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Textile Museum Tilburg, Ateliers ’89 (Aruba), ArtEZ Zwolle, and within European initiatives with Waag Futurelab. Her work has been supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Stimuleringsfonds, and Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, including the Talent Development Grant and 3Package Deal (2022), and has been presented internationally across Europe, the USA, Russia, and the Caribbean.