Eva & Franco Mattes
b. Brescia, Italy, 1976Live and Work in New York City, NY, USA and Brescia, Italy
CURRICULUM VITAE SELECT PRESS
Eva & Franco Mattes were among the first artists to use the internet to create art, and with works like Life Sharing (2003), they helped define the medium. Through videos, installations, sculptures and online interventions, their work responds to and dissects our contemporary networked condition, always approaching the ethics and politics of life online with a darkly comedic edge.
Public Collections
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
• The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
• X Museum, Beijing, China
• Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
• Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
• Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
• The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA
• The Current Museum, New York, USA
• Fondazione di Modena, Modena, Italy
Select Solo Exhibitions
2024 • J8~g#|;Net. Art{-^s1, Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, Switzerland• 508 Loop Detected, Appalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2023 • Fake Views, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
• Not Safe For Work, curated by Nadim Samman, Quadriennale, Roma, Italy
2022 • Most to Least Viewed, FMAV, Modena, Italy 2021
• Human-in-the-loop, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany
• Dear Imaginary Audience, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
• What Has Been Seen, Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montréal, Canada
• Data Doubles, Team Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• Happens or it didn’t pic, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2016 • Abuse Standards Violations, Carroll/Fletcher, London, UK
2015 • I would prefer not to include my name, Curated by Kendra Jayne Patrick, Essex Flowers, New York, USA
• Breaking Banality: The Dysfunction of Remediation, Feldman Gallery at PNCA, Portland, USA
2014 • By Everyone, For No One, Every Day, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2013 • Emily's Video, Carroll/Fletcher, London, UK
2012 • Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable, Carroll/Fletcher, London, UK
2011 • Fuck the Systsem [sic], Galerija Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Lies Inc., Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
• Colorless, odorless and tasteless, Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2010 • AD/HD, PlugIn, Basel, Switzerland
• Reality is Overrated, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2007 • 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2006 • 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York, USA
2005 • United We Stand, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Select Group Exhibitions
2024 • AI - Poetics of Encryption, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark• Masterful Attention Seekers, MoCA, Busan, South Korea
• Alias, M Leuven, Brussels, Belgium
• Poetics of Encryption, Curated by Nadim Samman,KW, Berlin, Germany,
2023 • Machine Violence, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2022 • Topologies of the Real, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, China
• I’ll Be Your Mirror, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA
• A leap into the void, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
• Subject to Shadowban, Curated by DIS, M+, Hong Kong
• Live, Performa, LGDR, New York, USA
• Not in my name, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Homosphere, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany
• Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
• The Impermanent Collection #3.0, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
• Multiple Copies, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan
2021 • The Situation Room, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, USA
• Open Secret, Curated by Nadim Samman, KW, Berlin, Germany
• 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York, USA
• Pandemic (vol. I), ZERO, Milan, Italy
• Send me an image, C/O, Berlin, Germany
• Artists and the Disaster (as Don’t Follow the Wind), Art Tower Mito, Japan
2020 • The Family of Man, Mudam, Luxembourg
• Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
2019 • The Amateur. From Bauhaus to Instagram, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
• Playmode, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
• Don’t Follow the Wind: Non-Visitor Center, Art in General, New York, USA
• Snap + Share: From analog to digital, from mail to meme, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
2018 • Athens Biennale, Greece
• The Hobbyist, Rencontres d’Arles, France
• I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
• 2050. A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
• Perpetual Uncertainty, Malmo Konstmuseum, Sweden
• Gangwon Biennale, South Korea
2017 • Electronic Superhighway, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
• Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
• The Hobbyist, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Yokohama Triennale, Japan
2016 • New World Order, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula, Australia
• Artists' Film International, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
• Artists' Film International, Istanbul Modern, Turkey
• Artists' Film International, Ballroom Marfa, USA
• 16th Art Quadrennial, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
• Perpetual Uncertainty, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Dispatches, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, USA
• Artists' Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• 2050. A Brief History of the Future, Palazzo Reale, Milan,
• 20th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
2016 • Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2015
• Families of Objects, Abrons Art Center, New York, USA
• Don't Follow The Wind, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
• 2050. A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2014 • The Darknet, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
2013 • Old School: Anachronism in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
• OFFLINE ART: Hardcore, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
• More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA
• The Public Private, Kellen Gallery at The New School, New York, USA
• Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
• Analogital, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, USA
2012 • More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Site Santa Fe, USA
• Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA
2011 • Objects of Devotion and Desire, The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, USA
2010 • Present Tense, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2009 • 100 Years, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
• Prague Biennale, Czech Republic
• ENTER ACTION, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2008 • Synthetic Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
• L'impresa dell'Arte, PAN, Naples, Italy
• Radical Advertising ®, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany 2007 • Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
• New Economy, Artists Space, New York, USA
• Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA
• Performa 07, Artists Space, New York, USA
2006 • Le paradoxe du Comédien, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
• Human Game, Curated by Francesco Bonami), Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Firenze, Italy
• Metamorfosis, MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain
2005 • If It's Too Bad to be True, It Could Be 'Disinformation', • Apexart, New York, USA
• Rhizome ArtBase 101, New Museum, New York, USA
• Zero Interest!, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
• ‘Just do it!’ The subversion of signs from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria
2004 • Ipermercati dell'Arte, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
• Reactivity: Unpredictable Past, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
• Quadriennale d'Arte, Turin, Italy
2002 • Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 • 49th Venice Biennale, Slovene Pavilion, Italy