Matti Braun

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Matti Jakko Braun (* 1968 in Berlin ) is a German artist with partly Finnish roots. He lives and works in Cologne .

life and work

Matti Braun is the son of a Finnish mother and a German father. He grew up in Berlin . From 1989 to 1996 he studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

Braun works in different artistic forms of expression: installations, objects, photography and painting. He includes the title, room installation and catalog design in his exhibition concepts. In his work he repeatedly used handicraft techniques such as painting plates, batik and glass blowing. He designed the conference room for the G8 summit in Cologne in 1999 with specially designed furniture.

Braun is inspired by places in his work. He named his first exhibition in Cologne after the Finnish town of Jussila, where his maternal family came from. Traditional Finnish ornaments can be found in the exhibition on painted plates. In the title of his exhibition "Öz Urfa" (German: true Urfa) Braun cited the city of Urfa in southeastern Anatolia. The cultural entanglements and myths of Urfa formed the basis of the exhibition concept.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • October 6, 2012 - January 6, 2013 Gost Log, Arnolfini, Bristol
  • 2012 Ave Vala, BQ, Berlin
  • 2011 Sola, Galleria sales, Rome
  • 2010 Salo, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
  • 2010 Salo, La Galerie, Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec
  • 2010 Pierre Pierre, Esther Schipper, Berlin
  • 2009 Pierre, L'appartement 22, Rabat
  • February 6, 2009 - April 26, 2009 Matti Braun. Kola - Liechtenstein Art Museum , Vaduz
  • January 23, 2009 My Generation - Group 5 Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt
  • November 21, 2008 - January 17, 2009 My Generation - Group 4 Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt
  • November 8, 2008 - December 20, 2008 ATOL - BQ, Jörn Bötnagel and Yvonne Quirmbach, Cologne
  • October 4, 2008 - December 7, 2008 Matti Braun: ÖZURFA, Foundation MUSEION, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
  • September 12th 2008 - October 29th 2008 A show of many parts ... City Gallery Leicester
  • September 3, 2008 - 2008 My Generation - Group 2 Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt
  • May 24, 2008 - September 21, 0208 Peripheral view and collective body, MUSEION Foundation, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
  • April 18, 2008 - August 31, 2008 Matti Braun: Özurfa Museum Ludwig Cologne
  • February 1, 2008 - May 5, 2008 SANTHAL FAMILY Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MuHKA), Antwerp
  • September 25, 2007 - December 15, 2007 L´homme nu. Volume 3/3 Arts de faire Maison populaire, Montreuil
  • March 17, 2007 - April 21, 2007 Matti Braun: LOTA ESTHER SCHIPPER Berlin
  • November 7, 2006 - November 8, 2006 Matti Braun: The Alien The Showroom, London
  • March 11, 2006 - April 23, 2006 Peter Mertes grant 2005 Kunstverein Bonn
  • September 23, 2005 - January 8, 2006 BYO. Bring Your Own MAN Nuoro
  • September 1, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Matti Braun: The Alien Project Dublin
  • July 13, 2005 - August 14, 2005 Parker's Box, Brooklyn - Sound Exchange Project The Showroom, London
  • June 25, 2005 - September 4, 2005 Julia Jansen / Matti Braun Art from NRW, Aachen-Kornelimünster
  • March 25, 2005 - April 13, 2005 THE ART YOUR SPACES Kunstverein Bonn
  • September 10, 2004 - October 24, 2004 TRACER Witte de With, Rotterdam
  • June 12, 2004 - August 22, 2004 RHINEGOLD - Art from Cologne Tate Liverpool
  • February 14, 2004 - February 28, 2004 Art for Art, Kunsthalle St. Gallen
  • November 22, 2003 - January 11, 2004 Multiple exposure / Multiple Exposure Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck
  • June 21, 2003 - August 24, 2003 Matti Braun "SR" Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 2003 VS, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
  • 2003 RT, The Showroom, London
  • May 16, 2002 - June 29, 2002 "HINTERLANDS" Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna
  • May 12, 2002 - June 23, 2002 Matti Braun - Bunta Garbo Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
  • September 15, 2001 - October 15, 2001 Tirana Biennale 1 Tirana Biennale
  • May 14, 2000 - June 25, 2000 Matti Braun "Ghor" Kunsthalle St. Gallen
  • 2000 things in the art of the XX. Century, House of Art, Munich
  • September 13, 1999 - March 26, 2000 German Open 1999 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
  • October 24, 1999 - November 28, 1999 SUPERCA ... Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
  • September 7, 1997 - January 11, 1998 Pictures of Germany Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • 1999 Peter Mertes grant, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
  • 1999 Edo, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
  • 1998 Sun, Colors, Good Mood 3, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zurich
  • 1998 Bali, Luis Campana, Cologne
  • 1997 Sonne, Farben, Gute Laune 2, Richard Hauff with Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart
  • 1996 Sun, colors, good mood, Luis Campana, Cologne
  • November 4, 1995 - November 19, 1995 Jussila, Jörn Bötnagel Projects, Cologne

literature

  • Matti Braun. Özurfa. Catalog ed. by Nina Gülicher & Kasper König, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 3-8656-0428-5
  • Matti Braun. Özurfa. Addendum to catalog ed. by Letizia Ragaglia, 2008, Bozen
  • Why Glass? Marco Bagnoli (author), Cristiano Bianchin (author), Matti Braun (author) ISBN 8-8815-8669-X Verlag Charter

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Matti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Matti Jakko (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin