Mathis Altmann
Musée Paul Dupuy
Toulouse
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Lucie Stahl, Mathis Altmann
Nouvelles Résistances
May 30, 2024
Jun 30, 2024
Kunsthaus Pasquart
Biel
Mathis Altmann
Individuality
May 23, 2023
Jun 18, 2023
Fitzpatrick Gallery
Paris
Mathis Altmann
Total Distress
Oct 20, 2022
Dec 03, 2022
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
Switzerland
Mathis Altmann
Swiss Emerging Artist Prize 2022
May 13, 2022
Aug 07, 2022
Kunst Museum Winterthur
Winterthur, Switzerland
Mathis Altmann
Amalgamate
Oct 09, 2021
Jan 02, 2022
Efremidis Gallery
Berlin
Mathis Altmann
Butcher Block
Apr 29, 2021
Jun 20, 2021
Paris Internationale 2020
Paris
Mathis Altmann
SuperSalon
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
Deutschordenskapelle
Basel
Mathis Altmann
Art Basel Parcours 2019
Jun 13, 2019
Jun 16, 2019
Instituto Svizzero
Milan
Mathis Altmann
Delve of Spade
Sep 22, 2018
Nov 27, 2018
Art Basel
Basel
Mathis Altmann
Art Basel Statements 2018
Jun 14, 2018
Jun 17, 2018
Freedman Fitzpatrick
Paris
Mathis Altmann
The Shovel of the Garbage Collector
Jun 01, 2018
Jul 21, 2018
Freedman Fitzpatrick
Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann
Wir sind das Volz
Mar 12, 2017
Apr 22, 2017
Swiss Institute
New York
Mathis Altmann
Foul Matters
Jun 23, 2016
Jul 24, 2016
Truth and Consequences
Geneva
Mathis Altmann
Marf Akkus
Jun 02, 2016
Jul 30, 2016
Halle für Kunst
Lüneburg
Mathis Altmann
The Sewager: Zwischen Krieg und Party
Oct 03, 2015
Nov 08, 2015
Freedman Fitzpatrick
Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann
Psycho Bombs
Apr 06, 2014
Jun 07, 2014
Born 1987, Munich. Lives and works in Zürich, CH.
Education
2011BFA Zurich University of the Arts
Teaching
From 2016 Lecturer at ZHdK, Zürich
Awards and Grants
2025 Landis & Gyr Work Grant
2021 Manor Art Prize, Canton of Zurich
2018 Bottomspace Residency, Guangzhou, China
2016 Mobilière Art Award
2015 Swiss Art Award
2014 Studio Grant, City of Zürich
2013 ZBK Art Award
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Individuality, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel
Gibber, La Salle de Bain, Lyon
2022
Total Distress, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
2021
Amalgamate, Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Butcher Block, Efremidis, Berlin
2019
Powerlifestyles, Parcours, Art Basel, Basel
More than Yesterday, bottomspace, Guangzhou
2018
The Delve of Spade, Istituto Svizzero, Milan
Statements, Art Basel, with Freedman Fitzpatrick
The Shovel of the Garbage Collector, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris
2017
Cascading Carcasses, Culture Hole, Dallas
Wir sind das Volz, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
2016
Foul Matters, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York
Marf Akkus, Truth & Consequences, Geneva
Paramount Ranch 3, with Freedman Fitzpatrick
2015
The Sewager: Zwischen Krieg & Party, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Frame, Frieze New York, with Freedman Fitzpatrick
2014
Sucker Farm, Marbriers 4, Geneva
Give Me Some Energy To Fight Off My Demons, Pro Choice at Shanaynay, Paris
Psycho Bombs, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
2013
Schonungslose Reportagen aus der Szene, Graff Mourgue D‘Algue, Geneva
2012
100% Design, Coalmine, Winterthur
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Basel Social Club, with Fitzpatrick Gallery, Basel
Gallery House Zurich, with Fitzpatrick Gallery, Zurich
2024
Le Nouveau Printemps, curated by Alain Guiraudie & Stéphanie Moisdon, Toulouse
Toy Section, Art Explora, Hangar Y, Paris
The Uncanny House, curated by Ilaria Marotta & Andrea Baccin, Casa di Goethe, Rome
Humain Autonome: Déroutes, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine
Sultana Summer Set, Sultana, Arles
Rot, Kirchgasse, Steckborn, CH
2023
Une sensation contemporaine, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy
Demanding, Yet Gentle, Clubhaus, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
TRANSFORMATIONS, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
2022
Chômage Technique, curated by Mohamed Almusibli, Lovass Projects, Munich
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
2020
Grand Miniature, Sentiment, Zürich
The Opioid 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, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin
Annemarie von Matt — widerstehlich*, Nidwaldner Museum, Nidwalden
2019
SI ONSITE, Swiss Institute, New York
It’s Urgent, curated 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
2018
Catch Me If You Can, curated by XYZ collective, ART LAB HASHIMOTO, Kanagawa
The Marvelous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade
curated by_Melanie Ohnemus, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Casa Tomado, curated by Anna Goetz, Mexico City
2017
Do Sculptors Dream of Electric Car (TOYOTA Prius), curated by XYZ Collective, Galvanize Gallery, Iwate
Reborn-Art Festival 2017, Ishinomaki City, Japan
MD72, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Berlin
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris
Summer Show, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
Utopia/Dystopia, MAAT, Lisbon
Things in Shapes of Things, Galeria Stereo, Warsaw
2016
High 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
Your Memories Are Our Future, Palais de Tokyo, Zurich (Manifesta 11)
Petit déjeuner au crépuscule, Centre d‘art d‘Orthez, Orthez
Prix Mobilière, Art Genève
Prix Mobilière, Die Mobiliar, Bern
Condo, Truth & Consequences / Supplement, London
2015
Some Gallerists, curated by M/L Artspace, The Duck, Berlin
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, curated by Fabian Marti & Chus Martínez, Der TANK, Basel
Apple of Earth, High Art, Paris
Group exhibitions prior to 2015 available on request.
Bibliography
2024 The Uncanny House, Casa di Goethe, Rom, Cura Books
Humain Autonomie, Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine
Werkbeiträge 2024, Bildende Kunst, Kanton Zürich, Kunstbulletin
2023 Rebecka Domig, Kunstbulletin, Juni
Pierre Ruault, Zero Deux, Ausgabe 105
Simone K. Rohner, Bieler Tagblatt, 11. Mai
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
2020 Daniel Horn, Interview, Brand-New-Life, April
Dean Kissick, The downward Spiral: Manhattan, Spike Art
2019 Mark Pieterson, AQNB interview, October
Ming Lin, The Snake that Eats Itself, RanDian
Kristian Vistrup, Review: Mathis Altmann, Artforum, January
2018 Ginevra Bria, Tragicomedy prototypes, Domus, October
Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Paris, nouveau Los Angeles?, Inrockutibles, July
Fiona Shipwright, From L.A. to Kolkata, Art Basel, June
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, Spike Art Daily, Autumn
Alex Kitnick, Review: Mathis Altmann, Artforum, October
Bosko Blagojevic, Review, Frieze, August
Ed Atkins, Data Rot, Frieze, March
Harry Burkem, Mathis Altmann: Foul Matters, Spike, January
2014 Interview: In the studio of Mathis Altmann, Spike Art, January
John Beeson, Grafted Garden , May Revue #13
Eli Diner, Review, Artforum, October 2014
Piper Marshall, Critic’s Pick, Artforum, June
2013 Summer Guthery, Critic’s Pick, Artforum, April
PROJECTS
2020 HEADSHOP, Format for experimental music (with Jan Vorisek)
2011-24 House Of Mixed Emotions (H.O.M.E.), Clubnight, Zurich (with Lhaga Koondhor & Jan Vorisek)
2011-13 New Jerseyy, Basel (with Daniel Baumann, Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, Dan Solbach & Anina Trösch)
2009-11 Paloma Presents, Zurich (with Georg Blunier, Vittorio Brodmann & Gunnar Meier)
TALKS
2022 ZHdK Art Talks, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich, CH
2013 Curated in Switzerland, Kunsthistorisches Institut, UZH, Zürich, CH
Mid-City, 2023
Wood, metal, plastic, LED-Matrix panel, ink-jet prints, paint, airbrush
Video loop: 13:24 min
130 x 68 x 55 cm
51 1/8 x 26 3/4 x 21 5/8 in
nowewont, 2021
LED lighting, acrylic, powder coated steel
18 x 155 x 7 cm
7 1/8 x 61 1/8 x 2 3/4 in
Edition of 2 plus 1 AP
Soft Skills, 2020
LED Matrix screen, 6’00 min video loop, Polished stainless steel, aluminum, wood, acrylic-glass, funhouse mirror, miniature
150h x 70w x 16d cm
59h x 27.5 w x 6.3 in
We Petty Tech Bourgeois!, 2020
LED Matrix screen, 1‘50 min video loop, stainless steel, aluminum, epoxy, acrylics, photographs, miniatures, airbrush, LED diodes
39.37h x 35.43w in
100h x 90w cm
Grind to a Halt, 2020
LED Matrix screen, 3‘26 min video loop, stainless steel, aluminum, tin picture
59.06h x 29.53w in
150h x 75w cm
Bridging Commerce I, 2019
Steel, aluminum, wood, ink-jet print, resin, glitter, Raspberry Pi-3, 7inch touch screen, studs, name badge, plush doll
24.80h x 19.69w x 4.33d in
63h x 50w x 11d cm
Bridging Commerce III, 2019
Polished aluminum, airbrushed, inkjet print, LED name badge, resin, acrylic, vinyl spackling, studs, tongue piercings, silver chains, charms
16.14h x 14.17w x 3.15d in
41h x 36w x 8d cm
The Internet, 2019
Brushed stainless steel, aluminum, plastic, mannequin, red pills, LED diode
42h x 30w x 15d cm
16.54h x 11.81w x 5.91d in
Lamestream, 2019
Wood, plastic, cloth, resin, metal, tassel, airbrush
82h x 30w x 20d cm
32.28h x 11.81w x 7.87d in
Untitled, 2019
Mixed-media
11.81h x 9.45w x 8.66d in
30h x 24w x 22d cm
The Bleeding Edge, 2018
Wood, metal, plastic, flock, airbrush, paper, glitter, laser, lLEDs, mirror, miniatures
156h x 96w x 78d cm
61.42h x 37.80w x 30.71d in
Teutonic Disaster, 2018
Wood, Foam, paint, airbrush, metal, glass, plastic LEDs, lasercut acrylic, miniatures
175h x 130w x 115d cm
68.90h x 51.18w x 45.28d in
Startup Garage, 2018
Wood, metal, plastic, mirror, fabric, paint, glitter, airbrush, bricks, CCFL light, LEDs, miniatures, mealworms, resin
153h x 98w x 77d cm
60.24h x 38.58w x 30.31d in
Water! Good God! Filth!, 2017
Wood, foam, plastic, human hair, garage floor paint, metal, cold cathode lighting
27h x 14w x 12d in
68.58h x 35.56w x 30.48d cm
Pierced Booger, 2017
Wood, gold leaf, plastic, metal, fabric, miniatures, paper, LED lights, fresnel lens, mealworms, human hair, garage floor paint
19.69h x 12.99w x 12.01d in
50h x 33w x 30.50d cm
Hygiene and Commerce, 2016
Wood, acrylic paint
13.98h x 11.42w x 10.63d in
35.50h x 29w x 27d cm
Upper Class Fuckery, 2016
wood, miniatures, glass, cloth, plastic
15.94h x 15.75w x 10.24d in
40.50h x 40w x 26d cm
Histoire de la merde, 2016
Wood, miniatures, lightbulb, cloth, plastic,
metal, paper
34.65 x 11.61 x 8.66 in
86.36 x 27.94 x 3.15 cm
Neuigkeiten vom roten Teppich, 2016
Mdf, acrylic glass, metal, cloth, mouse-trap
13.39h x 11.42w x 9.06d in
34h x 29w x 23d cm
Domestic Waste Police, 2016
Plastic, brass
15h x 11w x 20d in
38.10h x 27.94w x 50.80d cm
Der geniale Stadtzerstörer, 2016
Concrete, metal, wood, plastic, led’s, paper, glass, CCFL lights, mirror, acrylic glass, soap drum
65h x 20w x 20d in
165.10h x 50.80w x 50.80d cm
Deplorable Management, 2016
Mixed-media (concrete, metal, wood, plastic, door-viewer, paper, led’s, ccfl neon, miniatures, glass, rubber tires) 45h x 23w x 21d in
114.30h x 58.42w x 53.34d cm
96,000 sheets = 9,866.4 sq. ft. = 916 m2 for 1,233 max capacity, 2016
Concrete, metal, wood, plastic, led’s, miniatures, dried meal worms, bones, cardboard, toilet-paper, pocket-projector, 90min video file
65h x 20w x 20d in
165.10h x 50.80w x 50.80d cm
Fresh Breeze, Old Smell, 2015
Concrete, metal, wood, mini-cam, lcd-screen, plastic, paper, led’s, cold-cathode lamps, carton, plexiglass
19.69h x 23.62w x 39.37d in
50h x 60w x 100d cm
No Flexxxploitation Zone, 2015
Concrete, metal, wood, door viewer, plastic, paper, led’s, light-bulb, miniature, usm-haller table
27.56h x 27.56w x 39.37d in
70h x 70w x 100d cm
Do Not Put in Toilet, 2015
Mixed media (concrete, steel, wood, miniatures, paper, LED’s, pipes, door viewer)
38h x 18w x 24d in
96.52h x 45.72w x 60.96d cm