Matt Klinn

Artist Matt Klinn (née Oleg Koloskov) was born in Dnipro, Ukraine. He studied physics and
engineering at DSU, Drnipro (then Dnipropetovsk). He moved to Hungary in 2001 and
became involved with the local post-art scene, specializing in audio experiments. In 2010
he started exhibiting under the name Matt Klinn with the Talci gallery in Ljubljana. That
same year he participated in the Raoul Wallenberg association, Budapest. Other solo
exhibits followed for Matt Klinn, including at the Telep and Tűraktar Galleries in Budapest
(2011), at the Art-kvartira in Dnepropetrovsk (2012), the „Lenin” Art Gallery in Zaporizhya
(2013), Art Market Budapest (2014), and the Mosszolit Gallery in Budapest (2015). In 2013
and 2015, he conducted performance art pieces at the La biennalie di Venezia International
Art Exhibition. The first Biennalie performance inspired the formation of the Budapest-
based SRAC art group with Anna Zaboeva, which draws inspiration from mainstream art
practices as well as the guerilla art movement in the dynamic construction of socially
conscious art projects. The SRAC group provides an outlet to channel Matt Klinn’s
dedication to communal projects, and he has worked in conjunction with several groups for
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