Born in Duisburg in 1967, he graduated from the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2003, he founded the Institute for Biological Sculpture (ibiop) there for the dialogue between scientific knowledge and artistic thinking. In 2004, he was awarded a Barkenhoff scholarship in conjunction with a residency at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. In 2009, Matysik was appointed visiting professor for sculpture at the FH KUNST Arnstadt for one year. Since 2016, he has been Professor of Three-Dimensional Design/Material. Form. Object at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. He lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibition view gallery: Drees - Wolke
2018 BIOLOGICAL SIGNS, ROOT Gallery Berlin (together with Ute Wöllmann)
He has exhibited in institutions such as the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen; the Centre-PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland; the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin; the Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Laboratoria Moscow; the Museum Koenig in Bonn; the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin; the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; the Fondación César Manrique on Lanzarote; the Kunstverein Hannover; the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; the Kunsthalle Bern.
2019 art KARLSRUHE, Gallery ROOT Berlin
Reiner Maria Matysik continues the scientific discourse of evolution with artistic means. His work is diverse and includes sculptures made of modelling clay, plasticine, glass, spatial installations, photography and video art as well as art in public spaces. As an artist, he operates at the interface between art and science. His artistic concept is based on the assumption that life is in need of improvement and can be optimised through active constructive evolution. Using various materials, he creates models of possible future organisms, the prototype models of post-evolutionary life forms, and investigates and creates their habitats. Matysik's prototype models are embedded in a complexly elaborated cosmos; thoughts on the possibilities of the organic and the social also become texts, graphics and manifestos.
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2019-2023 - Coloured pencil on index card, 10.5 × 14.8 cm each, framed, drawing
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