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

 

 

Upcoming:

2012

MFSK Online, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark (Sep - Oct)
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico, USA (Jul 7 - Jan)
(solo), Carroll / Fletcher, London (Apr 13 - May 18)
Not Suitable For School, Goldsmiths, London (Apr 2)
Killing, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany (Mar 30 - Jun 17)
Collect the WWWorld, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland (Mar 9 - May 20)
Screen Test, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (Feb 11 - Apr)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Feb 9-11)
Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Jan 31 - Feb 5)
Is This Thing On?, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, Utah (Jan 22)
Sundance Film Festival New Frontier, UMOCA, Salt Lake City, Utah (Jan 20 - May 19)
Sundance Film Festival New Frontier, The Yard, Park City, Utah (Jan 19-29)
So Far So Good, Extra Extra, Philadelphia (Jan 13 - Feb 12)

2011

Détournement: Subversive Visual Communication, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, USA (Nov 12 - Feb 26)
Lecture, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio (Oct 27)
Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, USA (Oct 25)
Let Them Believe (screening), AND, Liverpool, UK (Oct 2)
Collect the WWWorld, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy (Sep 24 - Oct 15)
Please speak softly, Speed Show, DAM, Berlin (Sep 16)
Fuck the Systsem (solo), Galerija Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Aug 18 - Sep 9)
Let them believe (screening), Rooftop Film, New York (Jul 16)
Colorific! We make an art rainbow, Postmasters Gallery, New York (Jul 15 - Aug 19)
Globalissimo, 601Artspace, New York (Jul 8 - Sep 8)
Gaming the System, ABC No Rio, New York (Jun 16 - Jul 7)
Lies Inc. (solo), Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK (Jun 9 - Jul 30)
The Biggest Lie You Ever Told, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK (Jun 8)
54th Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion (Jun 4 - Nov 27) REFUSED
Italians do it better!, Sala dei Laneri, Venezia (Jun 1 - Nov 27)
Mods & Hackers, Young Projects, Los Angeles (May 22 - Aug 25)
GATE(WAY)S, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (May 12 - Sep 25)
About Face, No Longer Empty, New York (May 5 - Jun 12)
Electron, Geneva, Switzerland (Apr 21-24)
The Influencers (curators), CCCB, Barcelona, Spain (Apr 14-16)
From Infiltration to Simulation, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Apr 4)
Culture Jamming, Hunter College, New York (Mar 25)
Colorless, odorless and tasteless (solo), Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco (Feb 25 - Mar 26)
Art/Technology Global Sample, College Art Association, New York (Feb 12)
Objects of Devotion and Desire, The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York (Jan 27 - Apr 30)

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Carroll / Fletcher, London (2012)

Fuck the Systsem
Galerija Vzigalica, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2011)

Lies Inc.
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK (2011)

Colorless, odorless and tasteless
Cain Schulte Gallery, San Francisco (2011)

AD/HD
PlugIn, Basel, Switzerland (2010)

Reality is Overrated
Postmasters Gallery
, New York (2010)

I'm not here
Fabio Paris Art Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2009)

Traveling by telephone
Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India (2009)

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

2011

Collect the WWWorld
Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy

Colorific! We make an art rainbow
Postmasters Gallery, New York

54th Venice Biennale
Italian Pavilion
REFUSED

GATE(WAY)S
KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

About Face
No Longer Empty, New York

Objects of Devotion and Desire
The Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York

2010

Future
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

Abandon Normal Devices
Manchester, UK

Present Tense
National Portrait Gallery, Australia

The Pigs of Today Are the Hams of Tomorrow
Plymouth Arts Centre, UK

2009

100 Years
PS1, New York

PERFORMA09
New York

Prague Biennale 4
Czech Republic

ENTER ACTION
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

The future is not what it used to be
Postmasters Gallery, New York

2008

Agency: Art and Advertising
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, USA

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008
National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Radical Advertising ®
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
, Düsseldorf, Germany

L'impresa dell'Arte
PAN, Napoli, Italy

2007

Mask
James Cohan Gallery
, New York

Performa07
Artists Space, New York

Digital Surrogates
David Krut Projects, Johannesburg

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, 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 lectures

2011

Lecture Series
Carnegie Mellon
, Pittsburgh

From Infiltration to Simulation
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Art/Technology Global Sample
College Art Association, New York

2010

Everybody is telling me lies
MICA, Baltimore, USA

2009

I know this steak doesn't exist
NABA
, Milano

2008

I'm not here
MAXXI, Roma

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

0100101110101101.ORG
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)

 

Selected Bibliography

Klaus Biesenbach, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, MoMA Publications, New York 2010

AAVV, Eva and Franco Mattes. 0100101110101101.org, Charta, Milan 2010

AAVV, 60. Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future, Thames & Hudson, 2009

Sally O'Reilly, The Body in Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson 2009

Rudolf Frieling (edited by), The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Thames & Hudson, London 2008

Christiane Paul, Digital Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2003, 2008

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

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

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

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

 

Complete CV