Matti Braun

 Untitled, 2014 

 Was born in 1968 in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the
 Städelschule, Frankfurt and at the Braunschweig University of Art
 (HBK). The artist lives and works in Cologne.
 Matti Braun’s work investigates the unexpected, often little-known
 effects of cross-cultural dynamics, making visible patterns of artistic
 migrations and cultural misrecognitions. The artist’s exhibitions have
 often been organized around a specific example of such appropriation,
 taking, for instance, an elaborate web of interdisciplinary associations
 spun around the Indian physicist Vikran Sarabhai that include
 Mahatma Gandhi, Le Corbusier, the development of the Indian space
 program, the Ulm School of Design and Lynda Benglis as point of
 departure for displays that included textile works, objects, photographs
 and large-scale installations. Matti Braun’s work is characterized by a
 constant negotiation between concrete references and general
 allusions, between poetic ephemerality and an uncanny sense of
 visceral immediacy.

 Selected solo exhibitions include: A Lost Future: Matti Braun, The
 Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2018–19); Lak Sol, Kunstverein
 Heilbronn, (2016); Gost Log, Arnolfini, Bristol (2012); Salo, Kunstverein Braunschweig and   La Galerie Contemporary (2010); Kola, Art Kunstmuseum Center,
 Noisy-le-Sec Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2009); Özurfa, Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Museion–  Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano (2008).

 Braun’s work is represented in the collections of Sammlung
 zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin;
 Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,
 Liechtenstein; LACMA– Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles;
 Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; Museion– Museum of
 Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano; Pinakothek der Moderne,
 Munich, among others.

 Silk, dye, powder-coated aluminium
 130 x 100 x 3,5 cm