Exhibitions
Solo and group exhibitions
2025
We the Bacteria (group exhibition), 24th Triennale Milan, Italy
Secret Gardens of Planet E (solo exhibition, special guest Charlotte Bonniot), Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
«I greatly admire your innovative work.»
– Ai Weiwei
Artistic Director
2011 Gwangju Design Biennale
2024
Untitled (solo exhibition), Basel, Switzerland
Life’s Journey? (contribution to exhibition of Dr. Carla Molins Pitarch), Novartis Pavillon, Switzerland
Micro Structures I (solo exhibition), for ESPID, Copenhagen, Danmark
Stories of the Invisible (pop-up solo exhibition), Museum Blumenstein, Solothurn, Switzerland
2023
Ars Ex Machina (solo exhibition at the festival), International Photography Festival Olten (IPFO), Switzerland
Anniversary Celebration of the Cloëtta Foundation (solo exhibition), Zurich, Switzerland
“The images are absolutely fab, and amazing in detail (…)”
– Simon Connellan
Design Editor
Silvershotz
2022
Nature. And us? (group show, ambassador of the bacteria pavillon, installation), Stapferhus, Lenzburg, Switzerland
2021
Hautnah (close up), solo exhibition as part of the installation, Kyburg, Switzerland
2020
Catturare l’invisibile (group show), MAG – Museo Alto Garda, Rome, Italy
2019
Art Zurich (group show), Zurich, Switzerland
2018
Hidden Paradise (group exhibition), Gallery Sarasin Art, Basel, Switzerland
Tiny Dancers (museum installation), Melbourne Museum, Australia
2017
Untitled (solo exhibition), Congress Centre, Basel, Switzerland
Untitled (pop-up-exhibition and lecture), Schwabe Verlag, Basel, Switzerland
“The print looks beautiful! (…). It really is extraordinary work… you are a modern master!”
– Dr. Bill Hearl
CEO Immunomic Inco.
2016
The Bacteria (solo exhibition), University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Untitled (museum installation), DGM museum installation, Germany
Micro Structures I (solo exhibition), Haus der Berge, Germany
2015
Hidden World (solo exhibition and Swiss IMAX film premiere), Lucerne, Switzerland
2014
Untitled (pop-up exhibition) for SystemsX.ch, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sylver & Bytes (solo exhibition), AFM, Köln, Germany
2013
Micro Structures I (solo exhibition), Kunst- und Naturmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland
2012
Defense (group exhibition), Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Micro Structures I (solo exhhibition), BAYER, Leverkusen
Voyage des Pollens (group exhibition), Ville de Versailles/ Jardins de Villandry &, Parc de la Bourdaisière ,Touraine, France
2011
Design. Is Design. Is not Design. (group exhibition), Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea
„I have seen Martin’s work. Stunning.“
– Prof. Dr. Michael Peres
School of Photographic, Arts and Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Public and private collections
| Art collection | Solothurn | Switzerland |
| TECHNORAMA collection | Winterthur | Switzerland |
| Congress Center collection | Basel | Switzerland |
| University Hospital | Basel | Switzerland |
| Novartis | Basel | Switzerland |
| Roche | Basel | Switzerland |
| IZZ | Zürich | Switzerland |
| Hiag AG | Basel | Switzerland |
| PriceWaterhouseCoopers | Basel | Switzerland |
| Institute of Pathology | Heidelberg | Germany |
| Augenspital | Tübingen | Germany |
| MerzPharma | Allschwil | Switzerland |
| University of Fribourg | Fribourg | Switzerland |
| Blood Donation SRK | Basel | Switzerland |
| Swiss National Foundation | Bern | Switzerland |
Private collections in USA, South Korea, Australia, Japan, Israel, United Kingdom, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
„Martin has put scientific photography on a new esthetic level.“
– Dr. med. Wolfgang Bengel
Vice president DGZMB,
Lennart Nilsson-Award Committee Member