M + M

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M + M is a German - Luxembourg artist duo consisting of Marc Weis (* 1965) and Martin De Mattia (* 1963) .

M + M (right Marc Weis, left Martin De Mattia)

General

The artist duo M + M has been working in the space between visual art , architecture and film since the mid-1990s . So they sometimes undertake bizarre interventions in networked areas of life such as the motorway network, the climate or the inside of the body. Another focus is on multimedia, cinematic surround installations that freely interweave narrative fragments without a fixed chronological classification. In this idiosyncratic continuation of approaches from expanded cinema , a condensed, multi-layered sense of time arises that overrides linear processes and causal relationships and enables multi-faceted psychological narratives .

M + M often work with experts, scientists or colleagues from other sectors, depending on the direction of their respective project. In part, their way of working also takes on a curatorial character. The artist's myth of the individual genius is deliberately called into question both in their own anonymized collaboration and in collaboration with other work areas.

Awards and teaching

In addition to a working grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation, Bonn, M + M received several awards, including the 1994 Botho Graef Prize from the City of Jena, the “Young Art” award from the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen in 1996, and the Bavarian State Prize for Art in 1997 and in 2009 the ADC Prize in the Print Communication Category: Books and Publishing Objects for the “Pie Bible” .

As part of various residence and travel grants, they often stayed in Italy and the USA. B. in the Villa Massimo in Rome (1998/99), as a USA travel grant holder of the Free State of Bavaria in New York (2002), in the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles (2006) and in the Venice Study Center (2017).

M + M taught at various art academies and universities. In 1992/93 they initially held a teaching position at the Karlsruhe University of Design (HfG). After a visiting professorship at the Munich Art Academy (2000/2001) and a lectureship at the Zurich University of Art and Design (HGKZ, now the University of the Arts ) in 2001/2002, they were visiting professors at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in 2008 Active in Düsseldorf.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Fieberhalle , Villa Stuck , Munich (2019/2020)
  • "7 Giorni" , MAMbo, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna (2016)
  • "7 Days", Museum of Photography , Berlin (2016)
  • “7 days”, Casino, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg; Gallery in the Taxispalais , Innsbruck; VT Artsalon, Taipei (2015)
  • “Come to me first”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Art Palace Erlangen (2011)
  • "Display", Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2010)
  • "To Demon Kings castle, of course" in the Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (together with Wolfgang Weileder) (2008)
  • "La sospensione" , Galleria Neon, Bologna (2008)
  • "Madness as a living room" , Walter Storms Gallery, Munich (2008)
  • "No education" , Baukunst Galerie, Cologne (2008)
  • "Muro Giovanni e George" , neon fdv, Milan (2007)
  • "M + M. Johanna cycle " , Museum Franz Gertsch , Burgdorf / Bern (2005)
  • "M + M. On film ", Museum for Photography , Berlin (2004)
  • "M + M. Johanna cycle “, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; hammersidi Gallery, London; careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (2003)    

Group exhibitions (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • M + M, “7 Days”, Kevin Muhlen, Beate Ermarcora (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain u. Gallery in the Taxispalais , Innsbruck, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz (2015), ISBN 978-3-7757-4054-8
  • “The sting of the scorpion”, Ralf Beil, Michael Buhrs, M + M (eds.), Exhibition catalog Villa Stuck Munich, Institute Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3846-0
  • M + M “Come to me first”, Claudia Emmert (Ed.) Exhibition catalog: Kunstpalais Erlangen, Snoeck Verlag Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-940953-75-9
  • Jörg Pleva reads: Jack Torrance: "What you can get today ..." The audio book, ed. v. M + M, Neidlingen 2008
  • M + M "Collateral Profit", Ludger Derenthal (Hrsg.) Exhibition catalog: Museum for Photography, Berlin / Nuremberg / Frankfurt, Revolver Verlag and Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2004, ISBN 3-936711-49-6
  • "Pie bible" , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg: 2008, ISBN 978-3-938821-81-7
  • M + M “Johanna Cycle”, Reinhard Spieler (ed.), Exhibition catalog: Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf 2005.
  • M + M, "Storms" , Munich 2004

Group catalogs (selection)

  • Florian Matzner, Lukas Crepatz, Carola Geiß-Netthöfel, Uli Paetzel: Emscherkunst . 2016, Kerber Verlag, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0240-4
  • Stephan Berg, Dieter Daniels (Ed.): TeleGen - Art and Television, Kunstmuseum Bonn a. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2444-6
  • Florian Matzner (Ed.): Emscherkunst . 2013, Kerber Verlag, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3624-4
  • Katja Riemer, Andreas Kreul (Hrsg.): Wunderkammermusik - The Collections of the Kunsthalle Bremen, 1994-2011 and beyond , DuMont, Cologne 2011. ISBN 3-8321-9414-2
  • Reinhard Spieler (Ed.): I love Aldi , König-Verlag, Cologne 2011. ISBN 978-3-86335-095-6
  • Sabine Maria Schmidt (Ed.): Hacking the City, interventions in urban and communicative spaces. , Museum Folkwang, Ed. Folkwang, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-187-7
  • Dirck Möllmann (ed.): Man Son 1969 - From the horror of the situation. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-938002-28-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADC winner gallery. In: gewinner.adc.de. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .