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Matt Mullican

short biography

Matt Mullican (b.1951, Santa Monica, California), based in Berlin and New York is a conceptual artist and sculptor. In his work, he deals with ordering systems that seem to structure the relationships between reality and perception. From signs (pictograms) he constructs cosmologies, world models. Matt Mullican studied at the California Institute of the Arts and was a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

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collection/s

Beaufort Triennial, Ostend Castello di Rivoli, Turin ° Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Kunstpalais Erlangen LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art MACBA Barcelona MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MRAC - Musée régional d´art contemporain, Sérignan MoMA PS1, Long Island City Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Skulpturenpark Köln Strabag Kunstforum, Wien Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
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galleries

Capitain Petzel, Berlin Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon Daniel Blau, London Daniel Blau, München Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin Kargl, Wien Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich Massimo De Carlo, Milan Peter Freeman, Paris ProjecteSD Barcelona Tracy Williams, New York
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  • exhibition archive
  • 30. Aug 10. Nov
    Wo Kunst geschehen kann. Die frühen Jahre des CalArts Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
  • 05. Apr 11. Aug
    Matt Mullican: Banner Skulpturenhalle Neuss
  • 09. Mar 26. Jan 2020
    Matt Mullican - Between Sign and Subject Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young
  • 08. Mar 12. May
    REDUCTION Georg Kargl, Wien
  • 28. Jan 08. Apr
    schwarz weiß Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen
  • 05. Dec 15. Apr 2018
    Art and Space Guggenheim Bilbao
  • 26. Nov 04. Mar 2018
    JUMP INTO THE FUTURE – ART FROM THE 90’S AND 2000’S Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 04. Jun 01. Oct
    Skulptur Projekte Münster in Marl "THE HOT WIRE" Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl °
  • 19. May 06. Aug
    99 Cents or Less MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  • 13. May 26. Nov
    INTUITION PALAZZO FORTUNY, Venice
  • 18. Mar 14. Jan 2018
    Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch die Sammlung der GfZK Leipzig gfzk | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  • 08. Feb 21. Mar
    Variable Dimensions MAAT Lisbon
  • 06. Nov 19. Feb 2017
    Matt Mullican. Nothing Should Exist Museen Heilbronn - Museum im Deutschhof / Kunsthalle Vogelmann
  • 12. Oct 04. Mar 2017
    ICH ist eine EGO-Maschine ERES-Stiftung, München
  • 30. Sep 08. Jan 2017
    Matt Mullican. The Sequence of Things Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 03. Sep 20. Nov
    Sammlung Opitz-Hoffmann Kunstsammlung Jena
  • 01. Sep 13. Nov
    Aby Warburg. Mnemosyne Bilderatlas ZKM | Karlsruhe
  • 12. Jun 16. Oct
    Matt Mullican | Nothing Should Exist KMW Kunst Museum Winterthur
  • 17. May 17. Jun
    Matt Mullican: Framed Galerie Daniel Blau, München
  • 13. May 25. Sep
    PUNK. Its traces in contemporary art MACBA Barcelona
  • 26. Apr 26. Jun
    …und eine welt noch Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 19. Jan 26. Feb
    Matt Mullican Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
  • 14. Nov 30. Apr 2016
    PAINTING 2.0 Museum Brandhorst, München
  • 10. Oct 31. Jan 2016
    Drawing | THE BOTTOM LINE S.M.A.K. Ghent
  • 02. Oct 14. Nov
    Matt Mullican. The Meaning of Things ProjecteSD Barcelona
  • 09. Sep 31. Jan 2016
    FLIRTING WITH STRANGERS Belvedere, Wien
  • 14. Jun 14. Jun 2017
    KölnSkulptur #8 Skulpturenpark Köln
  • 12. Jun 09. Aug
    OTIUM #1 : DE MINERALIS, PIERRES DE VISIONS / KATA TJUTA Institut d´art contemporain / Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
  • 30. May 15. Nov
    COLLLECTING LINES. Drawings from the Ringier Collection KMW Kunst Museum Winterthur
  • 23. Mar 23. Mar
    Views on Mainz - 111 Artists in One Office Kunsthalle Mainz
  • 13. Feb 23. Aug
    Schön, euch zu sehen! 160 Werke aus der Sammlung Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz °
  • 09. Jan 15. Feb
    The Noing Uv It Bergen Kunsthall
  • 28. Nov 29. Mar 2015
    THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF The LANDSCAPE CAAC Sevilla
  • 21. Nov 22. Feb 2015
    Matt Mullican. Books Representing Books Kunsthalle Mainz
  • 13. Nov 13. Dec
    Matt Mullican PRAXES, Berlin
  • 12. Jul 15. Mar 2015
    Sammlungsalphabet gfzk | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  • 28. Jun 14. Sep
    CURIOSITY DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE Amsterdam
  • 26. Jun 22. Aug
    Bringing Light Into A Windowless Room Capitain Petzel, Berlin
  • 05. Apr 10. Aug
    Unter der Erde. Von Kafka bis Kippenberger K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen
  • 21. Feb 11. May
    EL HOTEL ELÉCTRICO. Rooms Available MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
  • 09. Feb 18. May
    Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  • 29. Nov 11. Jan 2015
    Wall Works Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • 16. Oct 05. Jan 2014
    Minimal Resistance Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
  • 21. Sep 29. Dec
    Blues For Smoke Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus °
  • 18. Sep 10. Nov
    Painting Forever! KEILRAHMEN KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • 14. Sep 03. Nov
    Holes in the Walls, Early Works 1948-2013 Fri Art Fribourg
  • 17. Aug 10. Nov
    Nenn mich nicht Stadt! Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
  • 19. Jul 06. Sep
    Matt Mullican. The Meaning of Things Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
  • 01. Jun 24. Nov
    55. Venice Biennale 2013 - Country Pavilions Venice Biennale
  • 01. Jun 24. Nov
    55. Venice Biennale 2013 - International Pavilion "The Encyclopedic Palace" Venice Biennale
  • 25. May 08. Sep
    Visionen. Atmosphären der Veränderung MARTa Herford
  • 24. May 15. Sep
    Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing Turner Contemporary, Margate
  • 19. Apr 22. Sep
    Matt Mullican. COSMOLOGY, BÖHM CHAPEL JABLONKA GALERIE, COLOGNE
  • 02. Mar 07. Apr
    IT IS ONLY A STATE OF MIND NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
  • 07. Feb 28. Apr
    Blues For Smoke Whitney Museum, New York
  • 14. Dec 03. Feb 2013
    COLLECTION’12 Institut d´art contemporain / Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
  • 21. Oct 07. Jan 2013
    Blues for Smoke MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 20. Sep 25. Oct
    curated by_vienna 2012: kunst oder leben, ästhetik und biopolitik Georg Kargl, Wien
  • 18. Sep 10. Nov
    Reflecting on Reflection Galeri Mana, Istanbul
  • 13. Jul 05. Aug
    Wettbewerb zum Leipziger Freiheits- und Einheitsdenkmal Öffentlicher Raum Leipzig
  • 03. Jun 04. Nov
    Ein Wunsch bleibt immer übrig - Kasper König zieht Bilanz Museum Ludwig Köln
  • 24. May 07. Oct
    Fremde überall – Foreigners everywhere Jüdisches Museum - Wien
  • 01. Apr 28. Oct
    Longing for perfection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
  • 19. Feb 14. May
    Print/Out MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 11. Feb 03. Jun
    This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • 20. Jan 18. Feb
    The Poster Show Galerie carlier | gebauer Berlin
  • 22. Nov 18. Feb 2012
    Matt Mullican ProjecteSD Barcelona
  • 16. Oct 14. Feb 2012
    DEAD Lines. Der Tod in Kunst, Medien, Alltag Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal
  • 24. Sep 08. Jan
    Paradigm Shift Serralves Collection 60’s 70’s MUSAC Leon °
  • 12. Sep 05. Mar 2012
    ERRE, variations labyrinthiques Centre Pompidou-Metz
  • 26. Jun 18. Dec
    Out of Storage. Provisoire & Définitif Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
  • 11. Jun 04. Sep
    Vermessung der Welt: Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst Kunsthaus Graz
  • 10. Jun 11. Sep
    Matt Mullican. Vom Ordnen der Welt Haus der Kunst, München
  • 09. Jun 14. Oct
    Matt Mullican Galerie Daniel Blau, München
  • 07. May 07. Aug
    ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One´s Back ZKM | Karlsruhe
  • 01. May 30. Oct
    Realität und Abstraktion Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
  • 13. Mar 15. May
    Singapore Biennale 2011 Singapore Biennale
  • 31. Jan 31. Jan
    Topography / Typography Brooke Alexander, New York
  • 12. Dec 04. Apr 2011
    The Logic of Association MoMA PS1, Long Island City
  • 19. Oct 20. Nov
    The Crude and the Rare Cooper Union, New York
  • 05. Sep 09. Nov
    Gwangju Biennale 2010 Gwangju Biennale
  • 03. Jul 31. Oct
    Next Generation Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
  • 02. Jul 31. Aug
    FischGrätenMelkStand kuratiert von John Bock Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
  • 27. Jun 17. Oct
    Optical Shift. Illusion und Täuschung b-05 Montabaur
  • 04. Jun 19. Sep
    Matt Mullican Institut d´art contemporain / Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
  • 29. May 29. Aug
    For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isnt there Culturgest, Lisbon
  • 02. Apr 14. May
    John Baldessari, Thorsten Brinkmann, Christopher Brown, Carsten Holler Richard Levy Gallery
  • 17. Mar 24. Apr
    Fine Line Georg Kargl, Wien
  • 05. Mar 02. May
    Amerikanische Grafik seit 1960 - Aus der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Zürich Kunsthaus Grenchen
  • 05. Feb 04. Apr
    For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn´t there MOCAD - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
  • 21. Jan 14. Mar
    Shudder: new commissions and exhibition The Drawing Room, London
  • 04. Dec 14. Mar 2010
    GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - The first Decade S.M.A.K. Ghent
  • 03. Dec 31. Jan 2010
    For the blind man in the dark room ICA London
  • 28. Nov 10. Jan 2010
    Twentysix Gasoline Stations Ed Altri Libri DArtista - Una Collezione Museo Regionale di Messina
  • 04. Nov 12. Nov
    Playground - Live Art Festival 2009 STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound, Leuven
  • 11. Sep 03. Jan 2010
    For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isnt there Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
  • 10. Sep 15. Nov
    La planete des signes - Concrete Erudition 1 Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau
  • 05. Sep 04. Oct
    Jeugdzonde Hedah Maastricht (closed)
  • 30. Aug 25. Oct
    Utopics 11. Schweizerische Plastikenausstellung Schweizerische Plastikenausstellung Biel/Bienne
  • 29. Aug 15. Nov
    Matt Mullican: City As A Map (Of Ideas) GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
  • 12. Jul 19. Oct
    Collecting History MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 26. Jun 28. Jun
    performIC Innsbruck Contemporary
  • 15. May 31. Aug
    Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New Acquisitions MACBA Barcelona
  • 21. Apr 02. Aug
    The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 28. Mar 04. Oct
    BEAUFORT 03 Beaufort Triennial, Ostend
  • 02. Dec 10. Jan 2009
    INDIRECT OBJECT Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York
  • 21. Nov 05. Feb 2009
    Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking The Drawing Center, New York
  • 01. Nov 30. Nov
    sehen ganz nah und sehr fern Städtische Galerie Erlangen
  • 26. Oct 06. Dec
    28. Biennale São Paulo 2008 Sao Paulo Biennial °
  • 26. Sep 18. Jan 2009
    KNOCKIN ON HEAVENS DOOR Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz °
  • 19. Sep 11. Jan 2009
    traces du sacré Haus der Kunst, München
  • 06. Sep 25. Oct
    Matt Mullican: Subject Driven Klosterfelde Berlin
  • 03. Jun 08. Jun
    Team 404 & John Armleder: Clinch/Cross/Cut NEW JERSEYY Basel
  • 02. Jun 22. Jun
    The artist is a mysterious entertainer DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE Amsterdam
  • 07. May 11. Aug
    traces du sacré Centre Pompidou Paris
  • 06. Mar 01. Jun
    Whitney Biennial 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York
  • 18. Jan 30. Mar
    THE PUPPET SHOW ICA Philadelphia
  • 06. Dec 09. Dec
    Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 ART BASEL Miami Beach °
  • 12. Nov 22. Dec
    Fit to Print Gagosian Gallery New York
  • 09. Nov 05. Jan 2008
    Matt Mullican Georg Kargl, Wien
  • 20. Oct 03. Feb 2008
    Exhibitionism CCS BARD Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
  • 26. Jul 01. Sep
    HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU castillo/corrales Paris
  • 01. Jul 02. Sep
    Diagrammatic Logic Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
  • 18. May 19. Aug
    AUTO EMOTION The Power Plant, Toronto
  • 06. May 04. Nov
    Vertigo MAMbo Bologna
  • 08. Feb 03. Jun
    Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
  • 30. Jan 12. May
    REALLIFE 1979-1990 Artists Space, New York
  • 20. Jan 18. Mar
    The Secret Theory of Drawing Model Arts & Niland Gallery
  • 11. Jan 10. Feb
    Cosmologies JAMES COHAN New York
  • 11. Nov 15. Apr 2007
    ANOS 80: UMA TOPOLOGIA Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
  • 10. Nov 20. Dec
    Looking Back The White Columns, New York
  • 02. Nov 30. Nov 2005
    Matt Mullican Klosterfelde Berlin
  • 05. Oct 19. Nov
    THE SECRET THEORY OF DRAWING The Drawing Room, London
  • 14. Jun 18. Jun
    Art 37 Basel 2006 ART BASEL
  • 09. Jun 15. Jul
    Gruppenaussstellung Galerie Mezzanin, Wien (closed)
  • 09. Jun 29. Jul
    Matt Mullican Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
  • 05. May 10. Jun
    Matt Mullican Galerie Daniel Blau, München
  • 04. May 07. May
    DFOTO 2006 Fundacion COFF, Donostia-San Sebastian
  • 03. May 03. Jun
    Matt Mullican Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
  • 31. Mar 02. Jul
    Metropolitanscape Palazzo Cavour, Turin
  • 27. Mar 14. Apr
    History of disappearance Galleria Neon, Mailand
  • 25. Mar 27. May
    Matt Mullican ProjecteSD Barcelona
  • 23. Mar 06. May
    I Still Love the 20th Century Georg Kargl, Wien
  • 08. Mar 17. Jul
    LOS ANGELES 1955-1985 Centre Pompidou Paris
  • 01. Dec 04. Dec
    Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 ART BASEL Miami Beach °
  • 19. Nov 06. Aug 2006
    Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht ZKM | Karlsruhe
  • 21. Oct 19. Feb 2006
    Matt Mullican: Model Architecture LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz
  • 21. Oct 08. Jan 2006
    hot needle (graphic works of the 1980s) Prague City Gallery °
  • 29. Sep 30. Oct
    steirischer herbst 2005 Stadt - polis on display steirischer herbst
  • 10. Sep 29. Oct
    Lecon Zero Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
  • 10. Sep 20. Feb 2006
    ECSTASY. In and About Altered States MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 10. Sep 22. Oct
    Matt Mullican Peter Freeman, Paris
  • 02. Jul 17. Sep
    Matt Mullican Klosterfelde Berlin
  • 18. Jun 04. Sep
    History of Disappearance BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
  • 01. Apr 04. Jun
    UNE JOURNEE PARTICULIERE Villa du Parc, Annemasse
  • 19. Mar 12. Jun
    Matt Mullican - Learning from that person’s work Museum Ludwig Köln
  • 04. Dec 17. Apr 2005
    Funny Cuts Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
  • 18. Oct 15. Dec
    Matt Mullican: About five videos and some banners Base / Progetti per l´arte, Florence
  • 09. Sep 03. Jan 2005
    Tear Down This Wall MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 13. Jun 31. Jul
    Close by Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
  • 08. Jun 21. Aug
    Herzog & de Meuron + Daniela Keiser, Zilla Leutenegger, Matt Mullican, Hannah Villiger Galerie Stampa, Basel
  • 01. May 01. Jun
    The Big Nothing ICA Philadelphia
  • 14. Feb 31. May
    Global World / Private Universe Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
  • 31. Jan 31. Mar
    Experience, Memory, Reenactment TENT Rotterdam
  • 02. Dec 13. Mar 2004
    YESTERDAY BEGINS TOMORROW Deste Foundation
  • 22. Nov 22. Feb 2004
    Mapping a City - Hamburg-Kartierung Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 07. Nov 14. Dec
    10. Biennale de l´Image en Mouvement Biennale of Moving Images
  • 10. Oct 17. Oct
    Adam Carr floating ip, Manchester
  • 22. Sep 22. Sep
    Matt Mullican. Trance-Performance Kunsthalle Zürich
  • 18. Sep 10. Nov
    Transformer Pori Art Museum
  • 11. May 03. Aug
    Degrees of Abstraction Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
  • 15. Sep 25. Nov
    Matt Mullican Museion, Bozen/Bolzano
  • 17. Feb 01. Apr
    Matt Mullican Galerie Brigitte Trotha
  • 04. Dec 16. Jan 2000
    Matt Mullican : Details From an Imaginary Universe Das Lenbachhaus, München
  • 20. Nov 13. Feb 2000
    Stimuli Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
  • 13. Sep 18. Oct
    The Edge of Awareness MoMA PS1, Long Island City
  • 11. Sep 08. Nov
    fast forward 3 body check Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 05. Apr 21. Jun
    Technoculture Fri Art Fribourg
  • 26. Feb 26. Apr
    fast forward 1 image Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 21. Jun 28. Sep
    documenta 10 documenta Kassel
  • 28. Jun 18. Aug
    Under capricorn. The world over Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 11. Mar 18. Apr
    Pittura/Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren Neue Galerie Graz / Bruseum
  • 13. Jun 20. Sep
    documenta 9 documenta Kassel
  • 07. May 13. Aug
    Forest Of Signs - Art in the Crisis of Representation MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 14. Jun 04. Oct
    Skulptur.Projekte in Münster 1987 Skulptur Projekte Münster
  • 19. Jun 28. Sep
    documenta 7 documenta Kassel
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