Eva and Franco Mattes works have been shown internationally including: Collection Lambert, Avignon; Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Postmasters Gallery, New York; Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; ICC, Tokyo; Manifesta4, Frankfurt.

They received the Jerome Commission from the Walker Art Center, and are among the youngest artists to ever participate to the Venice Biennale. In 2006 they received a fellowship from Colombia University, New York.

Mattes' works are part of several private and public collections such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MEIAC, Spain; MAK, Vienna.

  

 

Recent and upcoming activities:

2009

Solo, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (Jan 5 - Feb)

2008

Try Again, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea, San Sebastián, Spain (Jun 26 - Sep 27)
Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008, National Art Museum of China, Beijing (Jun 10 - Jul 3)
Glamour and Globalization, PROGR, Bern, Germany (Jun 5 - Jul 5)
Am Puls der Stadt. Karlsplatz, Wien Museum, Austria (May 29 - 26 Oct)
My public space, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (May 23 - Jun 21)
It's always six o'clock, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands (May 23 - Jun 29)
L'impresa dell'Arte, PAN, Napoli (May 16 - Jul)
Holy Fire, IMAL, Brussels (Apr 18-30)
Try Again, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Apr 10 - Jun 8)
Radical Advertising ®, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany (Apr 5 - Aug 26)
Synthetic Performances, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, France (Apr 4)
Avatars and Other Alternative Universes, Augen Gallery, Portland, USA (Apr 1 - 27)
13 Most Beautiful Avatars, MMGalleries, San Francisco (Mar 15 - May 3)
VIA Festival, Maubeuge, France (Mar 13 - 23)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 27-28 - Mar 1)
Sex in Design/Design in Sex, Museum of Sex, New York (Jan 31 - Apr 27)
Nothing is Real, Everything is Possible, Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (Jan 18-19)
Io non sono qui, MAXXI, Roma (Jan 9)

Complete CV

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (2009)

It's always six o'clock
MU, Eindhoven, Nederland (2008)

Avatars and Other Alternative Universes
Augen Gallery, Portland (2008)

13 Most Beautiful Avatars
MMGalleries, San Francisco (2008)

Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur
Dockswiss Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland (2007)

13 Most Beautiful Avatars
Postmasters Gallery, New York (2007)

LOL
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2007)

13 Most Beautiful Avatars
Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York (2006)

United We Stand
Postmasters Gallery, New York (2005)

Nike Ground Experience
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2005)

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

L'impresa dell'Arte
PAN, Napoli, Italy

2007

Mask
James Cohan Gallery, New York

Performa07
Artists Space, New York

Sparkle Then Fade
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, USA

Gameworld
Laboral Art Center, Gijon, Spain

The Theatre of Life
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Italy

2006

Fabrica: Eyes Wide Open
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Le paradoxe du Comédien
Collection Lambert, Avignon

Human Game
Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence

2005

Prospective Sites. Aktuelle Kunst in Europa
25 Peaces, public space of Austria

From mini-FM to hacktivists
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

If it's too bad to be true, it could be 'disinformation'
Apexart Gallery, New York

Rhizome ArtBase 101
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Zero Interest!
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Just do it!
Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria

2004

Ipermercati dell’Arte
Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Systemstörung
Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

Nine Points of the Law
NBGK Gallery, Berlin

Reactivity: Unpredictable Past
ICC, Tokyo

A perfect day for bananafish
Postmasters Gallery, New York

Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma
Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy

2003

Bienal de fotografía
Tenerife, Spain

The Conquest of Ubiquity
Fundación Caja Murcia, Spain

New York Digital Salon
World Financial Center, New York

Critical Conditions
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA

2002

World Information
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

Punto.dot
Galería Punto, Valencia, Spain

Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria

Sónar
Centre d'Art St. Monica, Barcelona

Manifesta 4
Frankfurt

I Love You, computer-virus-hacker-culture
Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt

Intermedium2
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2001

Media Connection
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

Valencia Biennial
Valencia, Spain

49th Venice Biennial
Slovenian Pavilion, Venice

Double Life
Generali Foundation, Vienna

The Last Futurist Show
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2000

Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria

Vanished Paths: crisis of representation and iconoclasm in Art
Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano, Italy

 

Selected conferences and lectures

2007

Tomorrow Now
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia

2006

The Message is the Message
MICA, Baltimore, USA

The Message is the Message
 Columbia University, New York

2005

Media actionism
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano

2004

I Trucchi dell’Avanguardia
Museo della Permanente, Milan

Reactivity: Unpredictable Past
ICC, Tokyo

Jamming Culture
Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Canary Islands, Spain

2002

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Caja de Ahorras del Mediterráneo, Valencia, Spain

Mediations: Archeologies and transformation in the electronic sphere
Austrian Cultural Institute, New York

2001

Korea Web Art Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

The Real, the Desperate, the Absolute
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

The Society of Control
De Balie, Amsterdam

Arte en Linea
Fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona

1999

ZAC99
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

Grants and awards

New York Prize, The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Academy at Columbia University (2006)

The Thing Residency, New York (2005)

ICC commission, ICC, Tokyo (2004)

Public Netbase Commission, Vienna (2003)

Intermedium2 commission, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (2002)

Jerome commission, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2001)

Honorary mention, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2000)

Second prize, Electronic media art competition, Fraunhofer E-Business Innovation Center, Stuttgart, Germany (2000)

First prize, Viper Festival, Basel (2000)

 

Public collections

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

MEIAC, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain

21c Museum, Louisville, USA

David Howe Foundation, New York

MAK, Vienna

 

Selected Bibliography

Serge Lemoine, L'Art moderne et contemporain, Larousse, Paris 2006

Mark Getlein, Gilbert's Living With Art, McGraw-Hill, San Francisco 2006

Gabriella Giannachi, Politics, New Media, Theatre: Performing the Virtual, Routledge, London and New York 2006

Reena Jana, Mark Tribe, New Media Art, Taschen, Koln 2006

Tom Corby (edited by), Network Art: Practices and Positions, Taylor & Francis, London 2006

Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, At the Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2005

Joan Rothfuss, Elizabeth Carpenter (edited by), Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2005

Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, Doubleday/Random House, London 2005

Rachel Greene, Internet Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2004

Christiane Paul, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2003