Jakob Mattner, who studied at the State University of Fine Arts Berlin (1967 – 1972) and was supported by grants and awards in Italy and France (Villa Serpentara in Olevano, DAAD in Rome, Villa Romana in Florence, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris), has been creating graphic, painterly and sculptural work in the transitions between light and dark.
The iconicity of Malevich or the light dynamics of Moholoy-Nagy, the post-revolutionary constructivism, the Chiaroscuro from Caravaggio to the simple means of Arte Povera have influenced him. In his art Jakob Mattner has created a singular freedom of a continued avant-garde. Pontus Hultén wrote about his work that it was shaped by the mystery of perspective, researched and enhanced by the means of light.
In “Blick zur Sonne” he cooperated with astrophysicists from the Einstein Tower in Potsdam and displayed the overlapping of art and research in several exhibitions. He has been creating light stages as echo spaces for readings for the Berlin International Literature Festival since 2001. Jakob Mattner’s work has been exhibited in museums, biennials and galleries in Europe, Russia, the USA and South America. The artist lives in Berlin.
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Galerie Michael Haas
Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
Galerie Michael Haas
Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
Kunst Lager Haas
Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin
Kunst Lager Haas
Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 88 92 91 0
Mail: contact@galeriemichaelhaas.de
Phone: +49 (0) 30 88 92 91 0
Mail: contact@galeriemichaelhaas.de
1967-72 studied sculpting at the University of the Arts Berlin
2019
Art Award of the Kunststiftung Folker Skulima
2012/13
Villa Concordia, Bamberg / Stipendium Bayerisches Staatsministerium
2012
project grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2004/06
project grant of the Bundeskulturstiftung and BMBF
1994
art award from the Heitland-Foundation, Celle
1981
artist grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn
1977
Villa Romana Preis, Florenz
1974/75
grant from the Federal Ministery of the Interior
Cité des Arts, Paris
1973/74
DAAD grant for Rome
1972
Grant from the Akademie der Künste Berlin
Villa Serpentara, Olevano
2023
Deep Time – Der ferne Klang, Stiftung St. Matthaeus, Berlin
2019
Jakob Mattner. Galerie Grisebach, Berlin (on the occasion of the awarding of the Folker Skulima Art Foundation Prize)
Jakob Mattner. Echo. Galerie Miro, Prague
2021
Jakob Mattner. Second Planet, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2018
Jakob Mattner. Membran, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń/Poland
2016
Vice Versa – Jakob Mattner, Kunstraum Kesselhaus, Bamberg
Jakob Mattner. Polyphon, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2015
Schwarzlicht, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf
Spiegelungen, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz
2014
Galerie Haas AG, Zürich
2013
Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin / Berliner Festspiele
2012
Jakob Mattner, Villa Wessel, Iserlohn
Mattner’s 70s works, Galerie 401contemporary, Berlin
2011
Museum Weserburg / Landesvertretung Bremen in Berlin
Back to the future. Galerie 401contemporary / Artissima Turin
Black Space, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona
2010
Percussion, 401contemporary, London
2009
Ohne Mimesis, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg
2007
Engelsflügel, Bistum Bamberg, Szcecin
2006/07
Der Blick in die Sonne, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2006
Der Blick in die Sonne, Museum Weserburg, Bremen
2005
Der Blick in die Sonne, Museum Wiesbaden
2004
Percussion, Luckenwalde
2001
Momentaufnahmen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Camera Lucida, Moritzburg Halle
1998
Galerie Farideh Cadot, New York
1996
Der blinde Fleck, Hebbeltheater, Berlin
1992
Galerie Alejandro Sales; Barcelona
1989
Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
Galerie Pervaja, Moscow
1988
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris
1987
Nationalgalerie Grundkreditbank, Berlin
1985
Zwielicht, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
Zwielicht, Galerie Carpenter & Hochmann, New York
1983
Zwielicht, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1980
DAAD-Galerie, Berlin
Zwielicht, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1977
Stanza Notturna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
2023
Black, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Köpfe maskiert, verwandelt, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
2021
Perspektivwechsel. St. Annen Museum, Lübeck
2019
Negative Space – der negative Raum. Zentrum für Kunst und Medien ZKM, Karlsruhe
2018
PAINTING still ALIVE… On the way to modernity, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń/Poland
2015
Imago Mundi. Luciano Benetton Collection. Mappa dell’arte nuova, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
2014
On what there might not be / Acerca de lo que podría no ser, Marso, Mexico City
2013
Scheinwerfer – Lichtkunst In Deutschland Im 21. Jahrhundert / Teil 1, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle
Landschaft nach 2000, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
Resonanzen, Mary Bauermeister, Jakob Mattner, Galerie 401contemporary Berlin
Camera Lucida. Lichtrouten, Biennale Lüdenscheid
Circles | Kreise, Stadt Bamberg, Bamberger Kunstverein, Alexander Ochs, Berlin (K)
2012
Art Brussels, 30th contemporary Art Fair, Galerie 401contemporary Berlin
Art Cologne 2012, Galerie Haas AG, Zürich
Volta 8 Basel, Galerie 401contemporary Berlin
2010
…et de lumière, 401contemporary, Berlin
2009
ZEROplus, 401contemporary, Berlin
Linie, 401contemporary, Berlin
Notation, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Spotlight, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2008
Notation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Notabene, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
2004
Percussion, Luckenwalde, Berlin
2003
Ulysses Award, Lettre International, Berlin
2002
Paarungen, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
vice – versa, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Ground Zero, Haus am Lützowplatz; Berlin
2000
Lied:Strahl, Deutscher Pavillon, EXPO, Hannover
1999
Zwielicht – Neue Medien, Hamburger Bahnhof
1996
Marianne: Germania, Hebbeltheater, Berlin
Eric Satie (with Alan Marks), Hebbeltheater, Berlin
1995
Percussion, Site, Santa Fe
1992
Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin
1990
Ambiente Berlin / Biennale Venice
1986
Androgyn, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1985
Promenades, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
1983
Zwielicht, Neue Galerie / Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
1981
Schwarz, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Berlin
1980
Totes Licht, Kunstforum Lenbachhaus, Munich
1972
Welt aus Sprache, Akademie der Künste, Berlin