Petra Mattheis

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Petra Mattheis in the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig 2017
Petra Mattheis, MDBK Leipzig 2017

Petra Mattheis (* 1967 in Moers ) is a German artist and photographer . She became known for her artistic treatment of menstruation .

Life

Mattheis studied communication design at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences from 1987 and graduated in 1994 with a diploma. From 2002 to 2006 he studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz , also with a diploma. From 2007 to 2009 she was a master class student in media art at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig .

She works with Sascha Nau as a photographer in Leipzig under the labels Regentaucher and Wunderwesten .

Work and style

On her website BAM as well as with installations and prints, Mattheis works on the topic of menstruation , questions cultural-historical developments and the way we deal with our own body today, and promotes a free, playful approach. Each motif of the blood-red prints of her series “BAM - Become a Menstruator” corresponds to a fertile year for the artist. She makes the prints one by one by hand; the number of copies depends on the number of bleeds that have occurred in the respective year. Mattheis thus not only addresses a taboo, her works also acquire an autobiographical character.

In 2013 she and Sascha Nau began to photograph dilapidated houses in the west of Leipzig and to present them on the Regentaucher blog . Under the title Waiting Houses , a series was created in which they staged the buildings “in the Becher tradition” like portraits of people. They wanted to "capture the unique character of the building". At the same time, the website Wunderwesten was created , on which they portray people from the west of Leipzig in photographs and conversations.

Selected exhibitions

  • 2004: Zwischen , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, with Ilka Meyer
  • 2006: Mostly black on white , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
  • 2008: embedded , shop for nothing, Leipzig
  • 2009: Pulsating peach , Kuhturm , Leipzig
  • 2009: White + White = compulsively clean , shop for nothing, Leipzig
  • 2011: Behind the Words , Queen Anne Gallery, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
  • 2011: East of Fresno , contemporary art group show, The Hatchery Art Space, Badger, California
  • 2012: Sleeps a song in all things , Bellevuesaal with Klaus Lomnitzer, Wiesbaden
  • 2015: Arts and Crafts Week at Panty Camp , Galerie The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
  • 2016: Under the red flag , e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz
  • 2017: Riding the Red Tide , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2018: Become a Menstruator Booth , Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig
  • 2019: Shark Weeks , Atelierfrankfurt , Frankfurt

Awards and grants

  • 2006: Grant from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2007: Prize from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2016: Project grant from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Publications

  • Nassauischer Kunstverein eV: Petra Mattheis and Ilka Meyer. Catalog for the exhibition Zwischen - Petra Mattheis, Ilka Meyer , May 9 to June 13 and June 29 to July 11, 2004; Part of the exhibition series Perspectives of the Future. With contributions by Christian Rabanus, Botho Strauss and Ilka Meyer. NKV, Wiesbaden 2004
  • Mithu Sanyal : Vulva, The Revelation of the Invisible Sex , Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , 2017, pp. 202–203, p. 210
  • Barbara Streidl : feminismus , Reclam-Verlag , 2019, pp. 12–13

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Excellent dissertations 2006/2007 , Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , (PDF; 0.8 MB) p. 48 f.
  2. ↑ a b Balmoral and state scholarship holders 2016 , Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture
  3. ↑ a b Petra Mattheis and Sascha Nau: Wunderwesten , Kwerfeldein , June 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Open eyes are an integral part of our equipment , Regentaucher.com
  5. ↑ a b "We want to capture the changes taking place around us with pictures" , Wunderwesten.de , May 17, 2016
  6. ↑ BAM , becomeamenstruator.org, 2015
  7. ↑ media mix , an.schläge , June 18, 2015
  8. ↑ Tobias Maier: Yes, man! Menstruation and Myth: Petra Mattheis makes blood red prints of sharks, bears and tampons , Friday , 18th July 2015
  9. ↑ Okka Rohd: Menstruation: The Red Cloth , Glamor , May 2016
  10. ↑ Caroline Ausserer: The Werewolf in Me , Interview with Petra Mattheis, Missy Magazine , July 22, 2015
  11. ↑ architectural photography . The waiting houses in Leipzig , Zeit Online , August 4, 2014
  12. ^ Zwischen , Nassauischer Kunstverein , May 9 to June 13, 2004
  13. ↑ Petra Mattheis / Mainly black on white , exhibition on the diploma at the Nassauischer Kunstverein, December 21 and 22, 2006
  14. ^ Portfolio Petra Mattheis , Galerie Queen Anne, June 21, 2011
  15. ^ Poetisches Forum - Exhibition: Behind the Words - Petra Mattheis , poetenladen , August 20, 2011
  16. ↑ Group Show: The Hatchery: East of Fresno , Artslant, September 24, 2011
  17. ↑ Sleeps a song in all things , Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, May 3 to 27, 2012
  18. ↑ Petra Mattheis: "Arts & Crafts Week at Panty Camp" , The Grass is Greener Gallery, June 20 to July 25, 2015
  19. ^ "Become a Menstruator" , Petra Mattheis in conversation with Mithu Sanyal , Gallery The Grass is Greener
  20. ↑ Petra Mattheis ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , e.artis @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.e-artis.de
  21. ^ Riding the Red Tide , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  22. ↑ Become a Menstruator Booth , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  23. ^ Shark Weeks , Atelierfrankfurt , Frankfurt
personal data
SURNAME Mattheis, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION visual artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Moers