To this day, the Austrian police continue to keep the file open, hoping that advances in forensic technology or a late-life confession might finally bring justice to a girl who simply went to catch a bus and never came home.
– It was a cold, foggy morning in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, when 17-year-old Martina Claudia Posch left her home to catch a bus for work. She was never seen alive again. Ten days later, her body was discovered by sport divers in the shallow waters of Mondsee , wrapped in olive-green tarps and bound with wire. A Crime of Precision and Silence martina claudia posch
The Liminal series has been exhibited in galleries from the Kunsthalle Wien to the Moco Museum in Amsterdam, receiving praise for its nuanced commentary on the thresholds between the natural and the manufactured, the transient and the permanent. Critics note that the works echo her professional ethos: a continuous negotiation between sustainability and functionality, between the tangible and the ethereal. To this day, the Austrian police continue to
When she graduated in 2002, she applied—and was accepted—into the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte), enrolling in the interdisciplinary Design and Technology program. The university, known for its avant‑garde approach that fuses visual arts, industrial design, and digital media, was an incubator for the next wave of European designers. Here, Martina began to forge the identity that would define her professional life: a creator who navigated the intersections of materiality, technology, and social impact. Ten days later, her body was discovered by