Fabian Matz

Fabian Matz, born 1986 in Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works in Basel. Since 2016, he has been running his studio „atelier fabian matz - studio for elastic states“ and creates as a sculptor and installation artist abstract and sometimes bizarre works in various media and techniques with polyamide tights. In doing so, he makes use of his large collection of different brands, qualities and yarn thicknesses and explores their physical limits and aesthetics. His works have been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Switzerland, Germany and the USA. Likewise, his work has been presented in nationally and internationally virtually curated exhibitions and publications.

From 2006 to 2010, he completed an apprenticeship as a desktop publisher with a vocational diploma in design at Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel and Schule für Gestaltung Basel. From 2013 to 2016 he studied Art & Interpretation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

solo exhibitions
2019 BLACK SAND IN NUDE COFFEE, KleppArt – Räume für Textiles und Kultur, Paderborn (DE)
2016 Meine Augen sehen meine Haare während sie sich an meiner Kopfhaut festhalten, SUBSTRAT, Bern (CH)
JKON 2016 Förderpreis, Projektraum, Kunstmuseum Olten (CH)
2015 happy tree friend, Ausstellungsraum iART, Luzern (CH)
2012 Die Glühbirne – vom Aussterben bedroht, Galerie Zytloos, Basel (CH)
2009 monochrome & tone, FOR ART, Basel (CH)

group exhibitions (selection)
2023 HEIMSPIEL, Photobastei, Fondation JETZT KUNST, Zürich (CH)
2022 The 7th International Textile and Fibre Art Exhibition «Fibremen», Ivano-Frankivs’k (UA)
Intellectual Beauty (virtuelle-Ausstellung), museutextil.com
ONLIVE Expositie Inter~National, Galerie Alphen Art / STA-ART, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
What about you?, Galerie Cahn, Basel (CH)
2021 34th annual Materials: Hard + Soft, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton (US)
2020 The 6th Small Sized Art Works Exhibition «The Far, The Near» (virtuelle-Ausstellung), Aria Art Gallery, Teheran (IR)
Aber danke für die Nachfrage. (online-Ausstellung), baronebreu.com (CH)
2019 Jahresgaben, KleppArt – Räume für Textiles und Kultur, Paderborn (DE)
Regionale 20 – Flüchtige Monumente, Cargo Bar, Bas...