Marie Matusz
*1994, lives and works in Basel and Berlin
Marie Matusz's practice is the result of a critical engagement with forms and their inherent meanings. It evolves through indepth research into a variety of philosophical, sociological, and linguistic theories. Her work manifests these concepts through minimal sculptural installations, sound works, writings, and films. Marie Matusz focuses on the processes, functions and effects that constitute the images of our time. By image, Matusz considers both internal and external sensory perceptions. The artist's installations implement choreographies that are always made of a blurred presence. Stories, reflected and refracted, are a guiding element; like brief glimpses into the life of a user, these stories are found and deciphered in both the titles of her works and the materials. The focus is always on the exhibition design: the individual works are the result of a deliberately open-ended artistic and curatorial processes, where her theoretical research creates poetics of their own.
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Education
2016/2018 Master of Visual Arts Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, FHNW, Basel
2013/2016 Bachelor of Visual Arts Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, HEAD, Geneva
2009/2012 Literature and Philosophy, Emilie de Rodat, Toulouse
Selected solo exhibitions
2026, core (duo), Max Goelitz, Berlin DE
2025 Shift, Blue Velvet, Zurich CH
2025 Reservoir, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel CH
2024 Canons & Continents, Kunsthalle Basel Back wall project, Basel CH
2023 Solo Booth, Paris Internationale, Clima Gallery, Milan IT
2023 Block, Lokal-Int, Biel CH
2023 Prequel, Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich CH
2022 Lonely Daters, Clima Gallery, Milan IT
2022 Fall, Swiss Institute, Milan IT
2022 Vultures, Der Tank, Basel CH
2020 Epoche, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen CH
2019 Golden Hour, Atelier-Amden, Amden CH
2019 Caravan, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau CH
2018 Solo Booth, Art Geneva, Quark, Geneva CH
2018 Through, Rheum Room Institute, Basel CH
2017 Stages of Recovery, Jan Kaps, Köln DE
2017 It will rise from the ashes, Espace Labo, Geneva CH
Selected group exhibitions
2026 Rotschild & Co, Zurich, Switzerland (upcoming) CH
2025 Que esce Entra, Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome IT
2025 EXHIBITION 01, Fondazione Sozzani, Paris FR
2025 Minimal, Minimal, POUSH, Aubervilliers FR
2024 Air Service Basel, Art Basel, Lo Brutto Stahl CH
2023 The Falcon Cannot Hear the Faulconer, Council+, Berlin DE
2023 Grisebach Auktion Haus, Berlin DE
2023 Honey, Blue Velvet CH
2023 Tante Care Cose, Clima Gallery, Milan IT
2022 The Fairest - non playable character, Insituto Pier Fortunato Calvi, Venice IT
2022 Intelleaks, Nameagesexlocation, Mexico MX
2022 Spring Equinox, Suns.works, Zurich CH
2022 Art Genève, ‘Prix Mobilière’, Geneva CH
2021 Liquida’s Tales, Cherishhhhh, Geneva CH
2021 Shoe Show, Kligenthal, Basel CH
2021 The egg show, Sangt Hippolyte, Berlin DE
2021 Dorothea Von Stetten Art Award DE
2020, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn DE
2020 Barely Furtive Pleasures, Nir Altman Gallery, Munich DE
2020 Punk Delikatessen, Suns.Works, Zurich CH
2020 Kunstkredit20 BaselStadt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel CH
2019 Ein Karte -35/+65, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel CH
2019 Retour À Rome, Instituto Svizzero, Roma IT
2019 Crocodile Tears, Salts hosts Fiancé, Birsfelden CH
2019 Dissonant Healing, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich CH
2019 Discoteca Analytica, Kunsthalle Fri Art, Fribourg CH
2018 Gallery Share, Kristina Kite, Los Angeles US
2018 Die Form Der Klangs, HeK, Basel CH
2018 Hunter of Worlds, Salts, Birsfelden CH
2018 Kiefer Hablitzel, Göhner Kunstpreis, Kunsthaus Glarus CH
2018 All One, Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva CH
2018 Die Form Der Klangs, HeK, Basel CH
2018 Kiefer Hablitzel, Basel CH
2018 Revitalise, Bolte Lang, Zurich CH
2017 Liquid Fertilizer, Regionale 18, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg CH
2017 X-show, group show at Atelier Mondial, Basel CH
2017 Namedropping, Jan Kaps Gallery, Cologne DE
2015 Tactictalks,coll.Katharina Hohmann, Christophe Keller, Berlin DE
2015 Bruits GrisArtung, La Chaux de Fonds CH
2015 La nuit, Espace LABO, Geneva CH
2015 Bibliotq Mdulair, DAF festival, La Reliure, Geneva CH
2014 Body, coll. Nora Schultz, Michael Beutler, Manuel Raeder, Geneva 18 CH
2014 Happenings in 6 parts, coll. Dora Garcia, Fondation Tapiès, Barcelona ES
Awards / Honors / Residencies
2021 Swiss Art Awards
2020 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt
2020 Cristina Spoerri Prize
2018 Kiefer Hablitzel, Göhner Kunstpreis
2021 Muzeum Susch
2018/2020 GGG AtelierHaus Basel
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Website
Towards Vanishing: Hommage-Letter, Image-Density, 2025 Natural pigment, varnish, lacquer, graphite and oil paint on phenolic plywood, MDF, PMMA, mahagony 260 x 260 x 25 cm
Towards Vanishing: Baroque Seeker, I Would Like To See The Tip Of Your Shoes, 2025 Natural pigment, varnish, lacquer, graphite and oil paint on phenolic plywood, MDF, PMMA, mahagony 260 x 260 x 25 cm
Towards Vanishing: Making Ends Meet, 2025 Natural pigment, varnish, lacquer, graphite and oil paint on phenolic plywood, MDF, PMMA, mahagony 260 x 260 x 25 cm
Installation view, Marie Matusz: Canons and Continents, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2025.
Installation view, Marie Matusz: Canons and Continents, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2025.
Installation view, Marie Matusz: Canons and Continents, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2025.
Marie Matusz All systems create the conditions of their own demise, 2022 acrylic glass, 60 × 80 cm (10 platforms, stacked version)
Marie Matusz Coated in compassion, 2022 Dried giant lily pads (Victoria amazonica) thistles, fabric, copper, steel, aluminum variable dimensions
Everybody feels the wind blow, 2022 Shark jaw (Charcarinus obscurus) mirror, acrylic glass 45 x 18 x 45 cm