Matti Braun
Matti Braun
Untitled, 2014
Was born in 1968 in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the
Städelschule, Frankfurt and at the Braunschweig University of Art
(HBK). The artist lives and works in Cologne.
Matti Braun’s work investigates the unexpected, often little-known
effects of cross-cultural dynamics, making visible patterns of artistic
migrations and cultural misrecognitions. The artist’s exhibitions have
often been organized around a specific example of such appropriation,
taking, for instance, an elaborate web of interdisciplinary associations
spun around the Indian physicist Vikran Sarabhai that include
Mahatma Gandhi, Le Corbusier, the development of the Indian space
program, the Ulm School of Design and Lynda Benglis as point of
departure for displays that included textile works, objects, photographs
and large-scale installations. Matti Braun’s work is characterized by a
constant negotiation between concrete references and general
allusions, between poetic ephemerality and an uncanny sense of
visceral immediacy.
Selected solo exhibitions include: A Lost Future: Matti Braun, The
Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018–19); Lak Sol, Kunstverein
Heilbronn, (2016); Gost Log, Arnolfini, Bristol (2012); Salo, Kunstverein Braunschweig and La Galerie Contemporary (2010); Kola, Art Kunstmuseum Center,
Noisy-le-Sec Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2009); Özurfa, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Museion– Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano (2008).
Braun’s work is represented in the collections of Sammlung
zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin;
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,
Liechtenstein; LACMA– Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles;
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Museion– Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano; Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich, among others.
Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium
130 x 100 x 3,5 cm
