Prof. Franco Mattes

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mattes@hfg-offenbach.de

T +49 (0)69.800 59-142

Main building, room 307

Discipline

Friederichs Foundation (Text)

Subject/Area

Media

Faculty

Art

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Vita

Based in New York, Eva and Franco Mattes (b. 1976, Italy) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995.

They have continually made work that responds to and dissects our contemporary networked condition, always approaching the ethics and politics of life online with a darkly humorous edge.
Group exhibition highlights include SFMOMA (2019); Athens Biennale (2018); Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2018); Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, 2018); Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (2017); Yokohama Triennale (2017); Biennale of Sydney (2016); Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2016); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, 2016); Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2013); Site Santa Fe (2012); Sundance Film Festival (2012); MoMA PS1 (New York, 2009); Performa (New York, 2009-2007); National Art Museum of China (Beijing, 2008); The New Museum (New York, 2005) and Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt, 2002). In 2001 they were among the youngest artists ever included in the Venice Biennale.
Mattes work is frequently in the media and has been written about in Artforum, Frieze Magazine, e-flux journal, The New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian.

They have given lectures at universities, museums and festivals, including Columbia University, New York; Brown, Providence; New York University; Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh; College Art Association, New York; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; MAXXI, Rome and Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris.