Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican was born in 1951 in Santa Monica; he lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Matt Mullican has always worked by adopting different kind of media, from performance to environment installation, from sculpture to computer graphics. His work oscillates between various antagonisms, reality and fiction, subject and object, the conscious and the unconscious, to work on our perception, defined less by the objective reality of the visible than by the projection of subjective experiences.
From the mid-Seventies he acts in performance, which achieves under hypnosis to experience states of regression or personality change, allowing to treat his own psyche.
His works have been exhibited at the Vienna Biennale (2017), at the 53th Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni (2013), at the Gwangju Biennale (2010), at the 28th San Paolo Biennale (2008) and a three Documenta editions (1997, 1993, 1982).
Artworks
Museums
Biography
Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2021
I, Centered, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2020
B, Representing the work, MAC’s, Hornu
2019
D, Matt Mullican: Banners, Skulpturenhalle, Neuss-Holzheim
CO, Matt Mullican, NC-Arte, Bogotà
USA, Between sign and subject, De Young Museum, San Francisco
2018
I, The Feeling of Things, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano
2016
USA, That Person and That World, The Kitchen, New York
USA, Pantagraph, Peter Freeman Inc., New York
UK, The Sequence of Things, Camden Arts Centre, London
Nothing Should Exist, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH; Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, D
2015
B, Matt Mullican, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Bruxelles
2014
D, Matt Mullican. Books Representing Books, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
2013
The Meaning of Things, Fondazione Ratti, Como
F, Collecting for the studio - Collecting 1959-2013, Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris
P, A Single Line, Cristina Guerra, Lisboa
I, Stone Video Rubbing Wire, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
A, 5 Worlds 12 Benches, K, KÖR, Wien
MEX, That World / Ese Mundo, Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de México
2012
CH, Who feels the most pain in the five worlds, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
D, Two into One becomes Three, Klosterfelde, Berlin
D, Editions 1986-2012, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin
B, Recents Works, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
2011
E, CIty, Project SD, Barcelona
USA, Matt Mullican - Behind that Person, Tracy Williams, New York
NL, Work in Residence #3, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
NL, Work in Residence #2, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
D, Organizing the World, Haus der Kunst, München
2010
F, 12 by 2, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes
NL, Work in residence #1, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
USA, Works from 1980s and '90s, Kunsthalle LA, Los Angeles
F, 88 MAPS, Three Star Books, Paris
2009
CH, Matt Mullican, Cosmology, Mai 36 Galerie , Zürich
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
I, Temporary Atlas, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso
UK, Temporary Atlas: mapping the self in the art of today, Mostyn, Llandudno
2018
USA, Brand New. Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
2017
IT, Walk-In And Expansive Works From The Museion Collection, Fondazione Museion, Bolzano
A, ARTIFICIAL TEARS. Singularität & Menschsein - Eine Spekulation, MAK Exhibition Hall - Vienna Biennale. Roboter. Arbeit. Unsere Zukunft, Wien
2015
I, La Grande Madre, Palazzo Reale, Milano
A, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, München, D; MUMOK, Wien
N, The Noing UV It Curated by Steven Claydon e Martin Clark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
2013
E, The Umbrella Corner Series, Projecte SD, Barcelona
CH, Nenn mich nicht Stadt, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen
I, 53° Biennale di Venezia - Il Palazzo Enciclopedico Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini - Arsenale, Venezia
CH, Holes in the Walls. Early Works 1948-2013, Centre D'Art de Fribourg, Fribourg
2012
B, Super Bodies, 3rd Hasselt Triennial, Hasselt
F, L'Institut des archives sauvages, Villa Arson, Nice
A, Curated by_Thomas Locher. On Signs and Bodies, Georg Kargl, Wien
D, Ein Wunsch bleibt immer übrig, Museum Ludwig, Köln
USA, This Will Have Been Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
USA, Print/Out, Museum of Modern Art, New York
D, The Poster Show, Galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin
E, Total City, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
A, Die Sammlung, 21er Haus, Wien
2011
USA, Under the Big Black Sun: California Arts 1974-81, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
F, Wander, Labyrinthine Variations, Centre George Pompidou, Metz
P, Mappamundi, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa
F, PLAYTIME. Works from Klosterfelde collection, LAC - Lieu d'Art Contemporain Narbonne, Sigean
A, Realität und Abstraktion. Figurative und expressive Kunst ab 1980, Museum LIAUNIG, Neuhaus
USA, FAX, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
D, Wild Sky, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg
USA, The View from a Volcano: The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971-85, The Kitchen, New York
RO, Architectures/Dessins/Utopies: Works from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, MNAC, Bucharest
B, When the Circus Leaves Town, Berlinaire Festival, Vooruit
E, The Persistence of Geometry, CaixaForum, Madrid
Bibliography
Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2021
That's Contemporary, May
2020
My Arts Guides, September
Boggio, Sara, Arte, September
2019
R. Bigman, Alexander, Art In America, November 28
2018
Butler, Connie, Artforum, January
Spagnesi, Licia, Arte, May
Faravelli, Angela, Segno
Affronti, Giusi, Artribune, June
2017
Menegoi, Simone, L'Officiel Art, October
2016
Peep Hole Sheet, Peep Hole Sheet, 'n' 27, winter
Frieze, April
2015
Mousse, Dec/Jan
2014
Art Review, April
2012
Gygax, Raphael, Flash Art International, July-August-September
Gygax, Raphael, Flash Art, July, August, September
2011
Gioni, Massimiliano, Domus, Settembre
Matt Mullican - 12 by 2, Exhibition Catalogue. Villeurbanne/Rhöne-Alpes;, IAC - Institut d'art contemporain
Griffin, Tim, Artforum, May
2010
Tumlir, Jan, Artforum, May
Basciano, Oliver, Art Review, Summer
10000 Lives - 8th Gwangju Biennale, Exhibition Catalogue.
2009
van Drahten, Doris, Textforum
Steinkamp, Jennifer, Artforum, December
2008
La Residenza Sabauda, la Collezione., Exhibition Catalogue. Rivoli (TO), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea
Saunders, Matt, Texte zur Kunst, December
Huck, Brigitte, Artforum International, March
Whitney Biennial Exhibition 2008, Exhibition Catalogue.
Busta, Caroline, Artforum, September
Blasted Allegories-Works from the Ringier Collection, Exhibition Catalogue.
2007
Bardi, Ludovico, ArtKey Magazine, October-November
Mullican, Matt, Vincente de Moura e Ulrich Wilmes, MATT MULLICAN: That Person’s Workbook
Wilson, Bernard, Punki, Exhibition Catalogue. Francoforte, MMK - Museum Fur Moderne Kunst
Public collections
Country
Location
France
Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Germany
The Ludwig Museum, Köln
Italy
Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Spain
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Switzerland
Kunstmusem Luzern, Lucerne
United States of America
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando
Portland Museum of Art, Portland
San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago
University of Houston Public Art Collection, Houston
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York