“I am interested in the area where bodies and identity meet. And I am inspired by people who see their body as a kind of speculative material, a tool and process of being and ‘becoming’, which I can use as material to deconstruct and rearrange.”
Mathias Vef works as artist in Berlin after having studied at the Royal College of Arts in London in the class of Noam Toran and Anthony Dunne.
His work was exhibited in shows in London, Berlin, New York, Sydney and Kulala Lumpur.
Please find out more about the current work in the
>>> Interview with Artberlin (GERMAN) & (ENGLISH)
>>> Interview with VICE (GERMAN)
*1976, Germany
.……….
Royal College of Art, London
2011-2013
Mediadesign University of
Applied Arts, Berlin
1999 – 2001
Humboldt University, Berlin
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Biology
1996-1997
EXHIBITIONS
……….
2022 Apelbaum 03, Aniomalie Art Club, Berlin
2022 Trauma Fauna, Shame Gallery Brussels
2022 Paradiso Austere, The Ballery Berlin
2021 Prettey Ugly, Shame Gallery, Brussels
2021 Gardens of Earthly Delights, Espacio Gallery, London
2021 Tape Modern, Tacheles Berlin
2021 Shame Gallery Residency, Brussels
2021 Summer Show, The Ballery, Berlin (Solo Show)
2021 Digital Selves, virtual show
2020 G-Spot, The Ballery, Berlin (Solo Show)
2019 Fluid, Espacio Gallery London (G)
2019 The Void, Museum Frider Burda Salon Berlin
2018 During, Axel Berlin (Solo Show)
2018 On G / Non G, Ibiza (Solo Show)
2017 Instinct#4, Berlin
2017 Tribe17, London
2017 Instinct#3, Berlin
2016 Common People, Off Quay, London
2016 Tribe#16, Chrom Art, London
2016 Galeries Lafayette, Berlin (Solo Show)
2016 Studio Residency Living Bauhaus Art Foundation, Berlin
2015 Tribe#15, Chrom Art, London
2015 Syncretics, Galerie 3punts, Berlin (Solo Show)
2014 I Loved You, Art Basel Edition, Miami Beach
2014 Hockney Gallery, London
2014 Temporary Turn, London (Solo Show)
2014 Candid Art Trust, London
2013 F* German, London, Manchester, Birmingham (Solo Show)
2012, 13 Royal College of Art, London
2011 Skeletor Saves, New York
2009 Berlin Days, Brüssel
2009 Hoffest des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin
2009 CODE Berlin Unesco City of Design
2009 Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 Leslie/Lohman Art Foundation, New York
2008 Create Berlin, Dray Walk Gallery, London
2007 D-Construct, Kleist-1, Berlin (Solo Show)
2004 Digitally Dehanced, Berlin (Solo Show)
2001 Inscape Outscape Escape, Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur (Solo Show)
2001 Inscape Outscape Escape, Sydney (Solo Show)
1998 Körperlandschaften, University of the Arts, Berlin
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
……….
2021 Artist in Residence, Shame Gallery, Brussels
2018 Artist in Residence, Dan Pearlman Group
2016 Artist in Residence, Living Bauhaus Kunststiftung, Artist in Residence Mathias Vef, Berlin
2014 Candid Art Trust, selected artist for the 25th Anniversary Exhibition, London
2012 Dissertation ‘I do Me.‘, Distinction
2009 CODE Berlin Unesco City of Design selected artist
2008 Create Berlin Ambassador exhibitions in London, Berlin and Brussels
1999 Scholarship ‘Looking for Talent’ Mediadesign Hochschule