Kristina Matousch
Kristina Matouschs' (b. 1974, Kalmar) art is powerful; the object's high-gloss finish, coupled with profound content including the embarrassing, disgusting, desirable and aggressive, have the ability to occupy and change rooms and those inhabiting them. Matousch is also interested in performance art, sometimes interacting with an audience, but also the opposite: hiding behind a screen or standing on top of a structure hidden from view, as in the work Still Life Production from 2013, or involving someone else to perform. She also works with large scale public commissions, for example at the Nya Karolinska hospital in Stockholm where her work Wash up! Stream was inaugurated in 2017. Matousch graduated from the Royal College of Arts in Stockholm in 2000.
- Born in Kalmar, Sweden, 1974
- Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden
EDUCATION
- 1995 - 2000The Royal University of Fine Arts, MA, Stockholm
- 1994 - 1995The Nordic Art School, Kokkola, Finland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2020Hole Whole, Fullersta Gård, Huddinge, Sweden
- 2019Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden
- 2018Bake, (performance August 23, 2018), Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm
- 2016En Plein Air, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel
- 2016STAIN, Galleri Riis, Stockholm
- 2014Periphery, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris
- 2013Galleri Riis, Stockholm
- 2012Painting Fucking Guilty Pleasure, Antechamber, Copenhagen
- 2011Reflections: Body vs. Material, Trelleborgs Museum, Trelleborg
- 2010TOOLS, Elastic Gallery, Malmö
- 2010Spegelvända hålrum, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar
- 2008In i, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö
- 2006Elastic Gallery, Malmö
- 2006Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg
- 2005Gallerie Hartwich, Rügen, Germany
- 2004action trans action, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm
- 2000Faktum, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm. In collaboration with Camilla Akraka.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2018Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
- 2017Translation Theme Park, CAVE, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017Summer Exhibition, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden
- 2016Women don't paint very well, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm
- 2016Samlade verk! 30 år med Maria Bonnier Dahlins stiftelse
- 2015Powerful Babies: Keith Haring's Impact on Artists Today, Spritmuseum, Stockholm
- 2015Spreading the Seed, The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
- 2014Leak, ISSUE Project Room, New York
- 2014Meat Balls, The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
- 2014Embodied Spaces, Trondheim kunstmuseum, Norway
- 2014Suecia Contemporare, Kalmar konstmuseum
- 2014Take Form, Galleri Riis, Stockholm
- 2013Shapes in the Making, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
- 2013Gumbostrand Konst och Form, Söderkulla, Finland
- 2013Baltic Sea Record, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
- 2013Distinguished from the melee of user comments and structurally misogynist chat rooms harbouring rapid-fire trolls, Galleri S:t Gertrud, Malmö
- 2012Fingrar och flaggor, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö
- 2012Heavy Metal, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad
- 2011Konsumera Mera, Norrköping Konstmuseum, Norrköping
- 2010CUT, Crystal, Stockholm
- 2010Cash Flow, Botkyrka konsthall, Stockholm
- 2009Får ej övertäckas, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna
- 20091a Space, Hong Kong, China
- 2008Performative formations, IHC Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi, India
- 2005Parallel Visions DCAD, Wilmington Delaware, USA
- 2005Fluxus favorites Moderna museet, Stockholm
- 2005Sydkraft, Loop-Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin, Germany
- 2004This is the place, Alma Löv Museum, Ö:a Ämtevik
- 20034 svenskar, Wanås, Knislinge
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
- Pizza Box, Hagalundskolan, Dalby
- Uranus, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
- Depths of time, Station Hyllie, Citytunnelprojektet, Malmö
- Zip, Stortorget, Gävle
- Pirelli P-Zero & Ferrari Rosso, Car park, Helsingborgs lasarett, Helsingborg
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm
- Statens Konstråd, Sweden
- Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
- Borås Art Museum, Sweden