Marie Matusz
Stand still for a second (2022)
“The encased objects at Istituto Svizzero operate as potentials – an item of furniture, a stage, a tool. On the other hand, the works here show what might have been once there, and what has since gone missing – a potential ex-negativo, an emptied space. (I knew where you had left it until I went looking for it.) Performing this emptying out the experience of the exhibition might give way to a more affective layer of perception: as ‘meaning is’, according to Franco Bifo Beradi, ‘not a presence, but an experience’ – ideally one shared, the outside looking in and the inside looking out, like walking in someone else’s shoes”.
(from the exhibition text for Marie Matusz - Lonely Daters at Clima, Milan, written by Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff)
photography: Marco Davolio, courtesy of Clima gallery
Marie Matusz Biography
Marie Matusz (b. 1994, Toulouse) lives and works in Basel and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include: Prequel, Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich (2023); Lonely Daters, Clima Milan, Fall at Swiss Institute, Milan, Vulture, Der Tank, Basel (2022); Until We Turn Blue (Dorothea Von Stetten Art Award), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2020); Epoche, Kunst Raum Riehen (2020); Golden Hour, Atelier Amden (2019); and Caravan, Aargauer Kunsthaus (2019). Her works have been included in Honey, Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich (2023); The Fairest - non playable character, Istituto Pier Fortunato Calvi, Venice, Intelleaks, Nameagesexlocation, Mexico, Spring Equinox, Suns.works, Zurich (2022); Liquida’s Tales, Cherishhhhh, Geneva, Shoe Show, Kligenthal, Basel, Dorothea Von Stetten Art Award 2020, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2021); Barely Furtive Pleasures, Nir Altman Gallery, Munich, Punk Delikatessen, Suns.Works, Zurich, Kunstkredit20 BaselStadt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2020); Ein Karte -35/+65, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Retour À Rome, Instituto Svizzero, Roma, Crocodile Tears, Salts hosts Fiancé, Birsfelden, Dissonant Healing, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Discoteca Analytica, Kunsthalle Fri Art, Fribourg (2019). Marie Matusz received the Swiss Art Award in 2021.