Mathis Altmann

Born 1987, Munich. Lives and works between Berlin and Zürich.

Education

2011BFA Zurich University of the Arts

Teaching

From 2016 Lecturer at ZHdK, Zürich

Awards and Grants

2021Manor-Kunstpreis des Kantons Zürich

2018Bottomspace Rsidency, Guangzhou, China

2016Prix Mobilière

2015Swiss Art Award

2014Atelierstipendium, City of Zürich

2013ZBK Art Award

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 Efremedis, Seoul (forthcoming)

2023 Individuality, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel
Gibber, La salle de bains, Lyon

2022 Total Distress, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris

2021 Amalgamate, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
nowewont, 2020 Showcase, Vienna
Butcher Block, Efremidis, Berlin

2019Powerlifestyles, Art Basel Parcours, Basel
More Than Yesturday, Bottomspace, Guangzhou

2018The Delve of Spade, Istituto Svizzero, Milan
Statements, Art Basel, with Freedman Fitzpatrick
The Shovel of the Garbage Collector, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris

2017Cascading Carcasses, Culture Hole, Dallas
Wir sind das Volz, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

2016Foul Matters, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York
Marf Akkus, Truth & Consequences, Geneva
Paramount Ranch 3 with Freedman Fitzpatrick

2015The Sewager: Zwischen Krieg & Party, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg Frame, Frieze New York, with Freedman Fitzpatrick

2014Sucker Farm, Marbiers 4, Geneva
Give Me Some Energy To Fight Off My Demons, Pro Choice at Shananay, Paris Psycho Bombs, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

2013Schonungslose Reportagen aus der Szene, Graff Mourgue D‘Algue, Geneva

2012100% Design, Coalmine, Winterthur

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Toy Section, curated by Blanche de Lestrange, Cédric Fauq, Anne Monier, Hangar Y, Paris (forthcoming)
Humain Autonome: Déroutes, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (forthcoming)
Le Nouveau Printemps, curated by Alain Guiraudie Stéphanie Moisdon, Toulouse (forthcoming)Casa di Goethe, Roma, curated by Cura
Sultana Summer Set, Arles

2023 Une sensation contemporaine, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy
Demanding, Yet Gentle, Clubhaus, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
TRANSFORMATIONS, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

2022Chômage Technique, Lovass Projects, Munich (cur. by Mohamed Almusibli)
Swiss Emerging Art Prize, Centre D’art Contemporain Genève
Gregor Staiger, Zürich

2021 Bijoux!, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
Nimmersatt? Imagining Society without Growth, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

2020The Opiod Crisis Lookbook, Paris
Paris Internationale, Paris
ANNEMARIE VON MATT. JE NE M’ENNUIE JAMAIS, ON M’ENNUIE, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
The Performance Agency, Berlin
Reverie (curated by Tenzing Barshee), Efremedis Gallery, Berlin
Annemarie von Matt — widerstehlich, Nidwaldner Museum, Nidwalden

2019SI ONSITE, Swiss Institute, New York
It‘s Urgent (cur. by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Luma Westbau, Zurich
Aube Immediate, Vents Tièdes, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier-Sète
Amulet or He calls it chaos, The 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco

2018Catch Me If You Can, ART LAB HASHIMOTO, Kanagawa (curated by XYZ collective)
The Marvelous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade
curated by_Melanie Ohnemus, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Casa Tomado (curated by Anna Goetz), Mexico City

2017Do sculptors Dream of electric car (TOYOTA prius), GALVANIZE gallery, curated by XYZ Collective, Iwate, Japan
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki City, Japan
Freedman Fitzpatrick at MD72, Berlin
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris
Summer Show, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
Utopia/Dystopia, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon
Things in Shapes of Things, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw

2016High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Brachland, W139, organized by Dingum, Amsterdam
LANZAROTE, Union Pacific, London
The world no longer exists, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Your memories are our Future, Palais de Tokyo, Zurich (Manifesta 11)
Petit déjeuner au crépuscule, Centre d‘art d‘Orthez, Orthez
Prix Mobilière, Art Geneve
Prix Mobilière, Die Mobiliar, Bern
Condo, Truth & Consequences at Supplement, London

2015Some Gallerists, The Duck, Berlin (curated by M/L Artspace)
Denude, Ramiken Crucible, Los Angeles
Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern
Dredgers on the Rail, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
G.I.F.T., Der TANK, Basel (curated by Fabian Marti & Chuz Martinez)
Apple of Earth, High Art, Paris

2014Doom - SURFACE Contrôle, Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
Guyton Price Smith Walker, Plymouth Rock, Zurich
Chat Jet (Part 2) Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus - Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Hephaestus, Office Baroque, Brussels

2013Soft Wear, Sandy Brown, Berlin (curated by Phillip Zach)
The November Issue, Mathew, Berlin
On Cuteness, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Holes in the Walls / Early Works 1948-2013, Kunsthalle Freiburg
Hi from California, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Conference 2, Autocenter, Berlin
NO; NO; H, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (poster series for Tobias Madison’s solo exhibition)

2012TCCA, NEW THEATER 2012-2013, APN Research, autoslides #1-3, shindisi home videos, the deleted scene, a fanzine as a museum / a museum as a fanzine, cut-out bin / apnegative, sci-fi sounds from the alienated kitchen, OOO &&& LaLL, hc r 1, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (curated by Tobias Madison and Emanuel Rossetti)
Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, Hinter Haus Des Meeres, Vienna
Cluster, 1m3, Lausanne
Olive Oil Life, Elaine Museum für Gegenwarts Kunst, Basel

2011Crepe de Chine, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
Ich verstehe die Trommel nicht mehr, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle (with Jan Vorisek)
Group Affinity, Kunstverein München
Corso Multisala, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (curated by Rhea Dall, Tobias Madison and Emanuel Rossetti)
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur Gruppenausstellung 2, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin

2010Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel
Digging in a Sandbox, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin
Of Objects, Fields, And Mirrors, Kunsthaus Glarus Mint Condition, Galerie 1m3, Lausanne

2009Imagine A Fireplace For Every Room, Gartenhaus der Kunst, Munich (with Yngve Holen and Emanuel Rossetti)
Arguments and Compliments, New Jerseyy, Basel
HAW-LIN, Nicolas Krupp, Basel (with Tobias Madison and Emanuel Rossetti)
Boris, Weltraum, Munich

2008Approximately Infinite Universe, New Jerseyy, Basel
The Thrill Of Collecting, Uovo Open Office, Basel
Used Future presents Showroom presents Used Future, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna

Bibliography

2022 Juliette Lecorne, “Mathis Altmann Total Distress”, Cura Magazine

2021 Amalgamate, Monograph, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Lenz Press
Francesco Tenaglia, “Mathis Altmann Butcher Block Efremidis / Berlin”, Flash Art, June

2020 Daniel Horn, Brand-New-Life interview, Apr 2020
Dean Kissick, The downward Spiral: Manhattan, Spike Art, Mar 2020

2019 Mark Pieterson, AQNB interview, Oct 2019
Ming Lin, The Snake that Eats Itself, RanDian
Kristian Vistrup, “Review: Mathis Altmann, Meyer Kainer” Artforum, January 2019

2018 Ginevra Bria, “Tragicomedy prototypes at Istituto Svizzero“, Domus, October 2018
“LES 5 EXPOS À NE PAS RATER EN JUILLET“, Inrockutibles, July Fiona Shipwright, “From L.A. to Kolkata, there is no place like home“ artbasel.com, June 2018

2017 Darius Sabbaghzadeh, “Review: Mathis Altmann at Freedman Fitzpatrick” Flash Art, Summer

2016 Daniel Horn, “House of Mixed Emotions” Flash Art, December Harry Burke, “Mathis Altmann Swiss Institute” Spike Art Daily, Autumn
Alex Kitnick, “Review: Mathis Altmann, Swiss Institute” Artforum, October
Bosko Blagojevic, “Review: Mathis Altmann, Swiss Institute” Frieze, August
Ed Atkins, “Data Rot” Frieze, March
“Interview: In the studio of Mathis Altmann” Spike, January

2014 John Beeson, “Grafted Garden. On the exhibition ‘Your Portrait: A Tetsu- mi Kudo Retrospective’ at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo” May, #13, 2014
Eli Diner, “Review: Mathis Altmann at Freedman Fitzpatrick” Artforum, October 2014
Piper Marshall, “Critic’s Pick: Guyton, Price, Smith, Walker” Artforum.com, June 2014

2013Summer Guthery, “Critic’s Pick: Hi from California” artforum.com, April 2013
Anne Dressen, “Best of 2013” Artforum, December 2013 Tobias Madison, “Artist’s Favourites” Spike Art, 2013

Projects

2020 Powerlifestyles, Nuit Blanche 2020, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

2011House Of Mixed Emotions (H.O.M.E.), Clubnight, Zurich (with Lhaga Koondhor and Jan Vorisek)

2011 - 2013New Jerseyy, Basel (with Daniel Baumann, Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, Dan Solbach and Anina Trösch)

2009 - 2011Paloma Presents, Zurich (with Georg Blunier, Vittorio Brodmann and Gunnar Meier)