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Matti Braun

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

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Selected works

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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2024
Silk, dye and elm wood frame
130 x 130 cm (51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in) (unframed)
131 x 131 x 4,3 cm (51 5/8 x 51 5/8 x 1 3/4 in) (framed)
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2024
Silk, dye and elm wood frame
130 x 130 cm (unframed)
131 x 131 x 4,3 cm (framed)
example
Matti Braun
Untitled, 2024
Silk, dye and elm wood frame
130 x 130 cm (51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in) (unframed)
131 x 131 x 4,3 cm (51 5/8 x 51 5/8 x 1 3/4 in) (framed)
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2023
Silk, dye and elm wood frame
130 x 130 cm (unframed)
131 x 131 x 4,3 cm (framed)
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2023

Hand-blown glass

17,4 x ø 15,2 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2022
Hand-blown glass
25,5 x ø 22 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2022
Hand-blown glass
16 x ø 25 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2022
Hand-blown glass
18 x ø 24 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2022

Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminum

130 x 100 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2022
Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminum

180 x 130 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2021
Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminum
130 x 100 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2019
Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium
130 x 100 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2019

Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium

260 x 200 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2019

Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium
260 x 340 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2018

Fiberglass
Dimensions variable (5 parts)
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2015

Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminum

261 x 201 x 4 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2011

Acrylic, silk, cold rolled steel
64,5 x 54,5 x 3,5 cm
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Matti Braun
F, 2009

24 Butterflies, silk, wood, glass
70,5 x 54,5 x 10 cm
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Matti Braun
Untitled, 2008

3 carp skeletons, vitrine (copper, glass, wood, fabric)
96 x 129,7 x 84,1 cm
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Matti Braun
R.T/S.R/V.S., 2003-2018

Tree discs, pond, water
Dimensions variable
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Matti Braun
Untitled (Rajkot), 2003

Silkscreen on fabric, hand-colored
263 x 104,5 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

Ku Lak Matti Braun

Ku Lak

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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.

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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

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
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

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
September 4—November 14, 2010
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Pierre Matti Braun

Pierre

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
October 4—December 7, 2008
Museion, Museum for Contemporary Art, Bolzano
Özurfa Matti Braun

Özurfa

Matti Braun
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.

Matti Braun
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

Matti Braun
May 14—July 25, 2000
Kunsthalle St. Gallen

Featured stories

Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch – Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction
Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch – Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction

Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Benefit Art Auction With Matti Braun and Angela Bulloch Hamburgische Kulturstiftung Hohe Bleichen 18 20354 Hamburg www.kulturstiftung-hh.de Read more
Live auction: November 15, 2021 Online auction: November 2 – 16, 2021
MONOCULTURE – A Recent History with Matti Braun
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

MONOCULTURE – A Recent History with Matti Braun

The group exhibition MONOCULTURE – A Recent History begins from the principle that any understanding of ‘multiculture’, should necessitate an investigation of ‘monoculture’. The societal understanding of monoculture can be defined as the homogeneous...
September 25, 2020 – January 24, 2021
Book Launch & Reading with Matti Braun
Esther Schipper Bookstore

Book Launch & Reading with Matti Braun

On occasion of the publication of Matti Braun’s new monograph, edited in cooperation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Beth Citron, the artist will read from the Bengali science fiction story “Mangalik” by Parashuram,...
Saturday February 22, 2020, 4 pm

Publications

Matti Braun

Matti Braun

The new publication by Matti Braun, edited in cooperation with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Beth Citron, brings together texts by Parashuram, Beth Citron, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Dip Ghosh, Ranen Ghosh, Soham Guha, Sudhir Kakar,...
2020
Shezad Dawood / The Otolith Group / Matti Braun A Lost Future

Shezad Dawood / The Otolith Group / Matti Braun

A Lost Future
Matti Braun’s work investigates the unexpected, often little-known effects of cross-cultural dynamics, making visible patterns of artistic migrations and cultural misrecognitions. This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition A...
2018