Current Exhibition:

Opening on October 21st 2025
THE DISCO AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
an Androtechne Collective show at Great Putney Street Gallery
Great Pulteney Street, London W1F 9NS

ABOUT

“I am interested in the area where bodies and identity meet. And I am inspired by people who see their body as fluid, something to mold and create, as a tool to be.

Distorted bodies from ballet dancers, digitally hacked bodybuilders and re-sampled trans people, portraits of sexworkers chemically melted by a liquid drug – Mathias Vef works with people who experiment with their self and see their body as something fluid. This fluidity is a tool to be, to embody, it’s enabling to deal with the drama and traumas of life. Through photos, videos 3d-scans and artificial intelligence, Vef collects these m(e)aterials, these embodiments of life, with which he creates portraits, collages or fresco like images, almost abstract mythical scenes representing the utopian state of mind of his subjects, against the mainstream, against the ‘natural’ – against absurd moral constructs.

His work has a psychedelic component as some images are chemically distorted through a dissolvent that is also a psychoactive molecule and at the same time destroys the pigments of the prints.

Mathias Vef also works with AI technology. His piece NUCA, an AI powered camera that shows people nude, sparked international interest up to an invitation to give a TEDx talk in 2024.

Mathias Vef lives and works in Berlin after having studied at the Royal College of Art in London in the class of Noam Toran and Anthony Dunne. His work was exhibited in shows in London, Berlin, New York, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur.

Please find out more about me and my work:

Interview ART BERLIN

Interview VICE