Matti Braun

Born 1968 in Berlin, Germany. Lives and works in Cologne.

Exhibition view: Ku Lak, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2020. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Matti Braun’s practice investigates the unexpected, often little-known effects of cross-cultural dynamics, making visible patterns of artistic migrations and cultural misrecognitions. His work is characterized by a constant negotiation between concrete references and general allusions, between poetic ephemerality and an uncanny sense of visceral immediacy.

Full biography

Selected works

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Gallery Exhibitions

Ku Lak Matti Braun

Ku Lak

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ku Lak, Matti Braun's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will include 16 works from a new series of silk paintings and approximately 25...

January 17—February 22, 2020

Esther Schipper, Berlin

Esther Schipper Bookstore Matti Braun

Esther Schipper Bookstore

The presentation includes prints, editions, rare books, ephemera and publications from Matti Braun’s ongoing engagement with the work of Rabindranath Tagore, Vikram Sarabhai, Satyajit Ray, and Indian and Bengali science fiction.

October 23—November 23, 2019

Esther Schipper Bookstore

Bo Lak Matti Braun

Bo Lak

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Matti Braun's fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Bo Lak, the show includes 18 individual pieces, in dimensions ranging from 55 x 65 cm to...

March 15—April 17, 2014

William Gedney and Raghubir Singh A Project by Shanay Jhaveri on Invitation by Matti Braun

William Gedney and Raghubir Singh

A Project by Shanay Jhaveri on Invitation by Matti Braun

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce a special exhibition of photographs by William Gedney and Raghubir Singh conceptualised by Shanay Jhaveri. On the occasion of the exhibition the gallery hosts the presentation...

September 20—November 16, 2013

Pierre Pierre Matti Braun

Pierre Pierre

With Pierre Pierre, Matti Braun continues his investigation of historical and cultural traces that began in Senegal and Morocco. For his fourth solo exhibition at Esther Schipper, he has subjected the gallery...

May 1—29, 2010

Summer Exhibition Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller

Summer Exhibition

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller

For this year’s summer exhibition Esther Schipper shows works by Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch and Christopher Keller. The scientific foundations of these works lay the basis for empirically comparable plans for getting...

July 22—September 12, 2009

Lota Matti Braun

Lota

Lota is the title of Matti Braun’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The main space is dominated by a strict atmosphere created by two textiles reaching from the ceiling to the...

March 17—April 21, 2007

V.S. Matti Braun

V.S.

V.S. is the third and final part of an exhibition trilogy, the other two parts of which were shown at The Showroom, London (R.T.), and at the Kunstverein Freiburg (S.R.) earlier in...

September 12—October 31, 2003

Space Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger

Space

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger

November 19, 1999—January 15, 2000

Edo Matti Braun

Edo

For several years Matti Braun has been dealing with images and figures of contemporary and cultural history that have been washed into completely different contexts by transaction processes, transmission errors or other...

March 13—April 30, 1999

Gruppenausstellung Matti Braun, Pia Greschner, Christoph Keller, Les Schliesser

Gruppenausstellung

Matti Braun, Pia Greschner, Christoph Keller, Les Schliesser

When we were almost done remodelling the gallery unexpected technical complications came up that forced us to postpone the originally planned exhibition with Paul Graham and Diana Thater. Thus the first exhibition's...

September 5—October 18, 1997

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External Exhibitions

Dip in the Past With Matti Braun

Dip in the Past

With Matti Braun

Dip in the Past shows the recurring preoccupation of painting with its own history. With the Blaue Reiter―its art and its theoretical considerations―at its core, the Lenbachhaus collection has a substantial starting point that keeps all further developments of modern...

March 1—May 15, 2022

Lenbachhaus, Munich

A Lost Future with Matti Braun

A Lost Future

with Matti Braun

In the Otolith Group’s transtemporal consideration of modernity in urban India, the narrator questions, “Why do Indian artists produce so little science fiction?” The reply: “Satyajit Ray’s film The Alien would have...

February 23, 2018—January 28, 2019

The Rubin Museum of Art, New York

Lak Sol Matti Braun

Lak Sol

Matti Braun’s solo exhibition, Lak Sol, runs June 17 – September 11, 2016 at the Kunstverein Heilbronn. The Indonesian title Lak Sol cannot be translated but functions as homophone: evoking multiple associations and languages....

June 18—September 11, 2016

Kunstverein Heilbronn

Gost Log Matti Braun

Gost Log

Gost Log presented a selection of key works by Matti Braun from the preceding fifteen years, along with new works specifically made for the exhibition. His delicate paintings on silk, prints, objects...

October 6, 2012—January 6, 2013

Arnolfini, Bristol

Mental Archaeology with Matti Braun

Mental Archaeology

with Matti Braun

October 9—December 5, 2010

Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg

Salo Matti Braun

Salo

September 4—November 14, 2010

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig

Pierre Matti Braun

Pierre

The exhibition Pierre opens following Matti Braun’s residency in Morocco in April 2009. This first research residency led the artist to travel between Morocco (Fez, Rabat, and Casablanca) and Senegal (Dakar) in...

October 23—November 25, 2009

L'appartement 22, Rabat

Kola Matti Braun

Kola

The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein presented a large-scale museum exhibition of works by Matti Braun. His works enable the viewer to become immersed in atmospheric spaces characterized by an eminently clear and precise aesthetic....

February 6—April 26, 2009

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Özurfa Matti Braun

Özurfa

October 4—December 7, 2008

Museion, Museum for Contemporary Art, Bolzano

Özurfa Matti Braun

Özurfa

Between the upper reaches of the Euphrates and the Tigris lies the southeast Anatolian city of Urfa, also known as Sanlıurfa, which for many centuries was a major crossroads for trade, culture...

April 18—August 31, 2008

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

S.R. Matti Braun

S.R.

The three pond-installations, S.R., R.T. and V.S., were part of an exhibition trilogy (The Showroom, London; Kunstverein Freiburg and Schipper & Krome, Berlin). The motif takes as its point of departure the...

June 21—August 24, 2003

Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg

Ghor Matti Braun

Ghor

May 14—July 25, 2000

Kunsthalle St. Gallen

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Featured stories

Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch – Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction

MONOCULTURE – A Recent History with Matti Braun

Book Launch & Reading with Matti Braun

Publications

Shezad Dawood / The Otolith Group / Matti Braun A Lost Future

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Matti Braun

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