MAGDA MATWIEJEW Born 1956, Germany Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia Education 1973-1977 Bachelor of Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne Solo Exhibitions 2014 2010 2009 2008 2006 2004 2000 1998 1994 1992 1988 1987 1986 1984 1982 1979 (Forthcoming), Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne En Pointe, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Vavara Beyond Memory, Installation at Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Broken Spell, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Arabesque, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Vavara: Beyond Memory, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne The River, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne Works on Paper, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne The Way of the Animal Powers, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Myths and Secrets, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne Recent Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne Magda Matwiejew, Anima Gallery, Melbourne Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne Magda Matwiejew: Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Cinema at the Edge Independent Film Festival, July, Edgemar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica, California, USA Videoart Festival Miden, July, Katamata, Greece SoCal Creative & Innovative Film Festival, June, Pasadena, California Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane Vienna Independent Shorts, Animation Avantgarde Selection, Vienna, Austria MEDIAWAVE International Film and Music Festival, Fort Monostor, Budapest, Hungary ANIMFEST Athens International Animation Festival, Athens, Greece Chilimonos, International Animation Festival, Santiago, Chili AVIF, Art Film Festival, Cannes, France Cinewest, Shire Internatinal Short Film Festival, Sydney. Australia Vavara Beyond Memory, Myer Gallery, Geelong Gallery, Australia Videoholica International Video Art Festival (Out of Focus), Varna, Bulgaria MashRome Film Festival, Rome, Italy Portland Oregan Womens Film Festival, Portland, Orgegan, USA ALTER-NATIVE International Film Festival, Targu-Mures, Transylvania, Romania Look of Women From the World, FDVLAB, Milan, Italy Flatland International Film Festival, Lubok, Texas, USA Flatland International Film Festival, Lubok, Texas, USA Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria Painted Lips and Lolly Sticks: Sexy Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada Verona Video Festival, Verona, Italy Black Box White Cube: Aspects of Performance in Contemporary Australian Art, The Arts Centre, Melbourne Female Eye Festival, Toronto, Canada St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia Painted Lips and Lolly Licks: The Sexy Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada London Independent Film Festival, London, UK Sexy International Paris Film Festival, Paris, France Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, San Francisco, USA The Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, Canada Cinerail Festival, International Festival Train and Metro on Film, Paris, France EnhanceTV ATOM awards, Melbourne Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, April Shorts Shorts Film Festival. “Stop Global Warming “ Academy Awards Accredited. “Broken Spell” Tokyo. Japan th th INVIDEO 2008 by AIACE ,”Insect” 12 -16 November, Milan, Italy Istanbul International Animation Festival . “Broken spell” 21-30 November, Turkey Broken Spell finalist for best experimental at the Enhance TV ATOM th Awards. 24 October, Melbourne 2007 2006 2005 1999 1997 1992 1990 1989 1988 Sexy International Fi;m Festival, “INSECT” 6th Sept, Melbourne Tokyo Film Festival, part of the Yokohama Art Project , partnered by TEPIA. th th Advanced Technology Gallery . Tokyo. 18 -25 October. “dotcom” Courtesy of Vernacular Terrain IDA projects, Japan th MIR festival , Melina Cultural Center Athens, “Broken Spell”. 20 September. Greece Urban Identity - Video Art & Architecture event at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. March 30 “ Broken Spell” Liquid Room, Broken Spell, Video Art & Architecture event at the National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia IDAP The Vernacular Terrain, Broken Spell, SonZhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China Westgarth Film festival, Broken Spell, Palace Westgarth Cinema, Melbourne The Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Broken Spell, Melbourne IDAP The Vernacular Terrain, Broken Spell, Queensland University of Technology, Creative Industries Block Gallery, Brisbane After Urban, Video Art & Architecture event at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA After Urban, Broken Spell, Video Art & Architecture event at the 4th Edition of the International Experimental Film Festival, Florean Museum, Carbunari, Baia Mare, Romania Digital Long Island Festival, IMAC Theatre, New York, USA NYC Downtown Film Festival, Insect, audience choice screenings, Duo Theatre, New York, USA IDAP, Insect, ZAIM Art Space Yokohama, partnership with Yokohama Art Project, City of Yokohama and the Japan Foundation, Yokohama, Japan After Urban, Insect, San Salvador, Colonia, San Benito, Cultural Center of Spain, Elsalvador, South America After Urban, Nomad Urban Video Festival, Bucharest, Romania The Darwin Festival, Darwin, Australia Athens Video Art Festival, Insect, Technopolis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece The Dashangzi International Art Festival, Insect and Broken Spell, curated by Zhu Qu Art District, Beijing, China San Diego Womens Film Festival 2007, Insect, Museum of Photographic Arts and Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, San Diego, USA St Kilda Film Festival, Insect, George Cinemas, Melbourne Liquid Room, Insect, Cultural Communication Center Klaipeda, Lithuania IDA/Harries, Insect, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW IDA Harries, Insect, Pinnacles Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD Australia San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival, Insect, Minna Gallery, San Francisco, USA After Urban, Insect, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Winsconsin Film Festival, Insect, Madison, USA Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Insect, Melbourne New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Insect, Today Art Museum, Beijing Atom Awards, Insect, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne To Much Freedom, Arabesque, LA Freewaves New Media Arts, UCLA Center Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, The Arts Centre, Melbourne Temporary Cities, Arabesque, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Temporary Cities, Insect, Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania The Harries: National Digital Art Award, Queensland University of Technology, Arts Precinct, QLD The San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, Arabesque, San Francisco, USA Indiana International Video Art And Architecture Festival, Arabesque, Indiana University Art Gallery, USA River's Edge Film Festival, Arabesque, International Art Expo Collection, Paducah, Kentucky USA Temporary Identities, Arabesque, The Third Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia White mantle - the winter landscape in Australian art, Vavara, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Arabesque, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China International Digital Art Awards, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston International Digital Art Awards, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne International Digital Art Awards, Vavara, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Sight Specific South, Vavara, Lume Laneway Screen Space, Melbourne Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria Nature, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne Ansett Art Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC Miniatures, Realites Gallery, Melbourne Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Selected Works, Realites Gallery, Melbourne Notations, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne A New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Bibliography 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 1994 1990 1987 1986 1984 1979 Lischi, S; Land and Skies , Exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond, Invideo catalogue, p.81 Watts, R; The Space In Between, Broken Spell exhibition catalogue, Karen Woodbury Gallery Danzig, S; The Vernacular Terrain Survey Catalogue 1999 to 2008, Magda Matwiejew, Broken Spell, p.51 Australian Film Commission, Australian Short Films 2007/2008, Animation, Broken Spell, pp.117 Australian Film Commission, Australian Short Films 2006/2007, Experimental, Insect, pp.148 & 160 Honghai, W & Danzig, S; 2006 International Digital Art and Harries National Digital Art Awards, New Medium Art Lab, Beijing Film Academy, Catalogue, Insect, Magda Matwiejew, Beijing, China. UCLA Daily Bruin, Los Angeles, Weekend Review, Freewaves New Media Arts Festival, Illustraltion (Arabesque), 1 November The Harries National Digital Art Award, Exhibition Catalogue, p.19 White Mantel, Exhibition Catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC Angelatos, V; Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair 2006, exhibition catalogue Backhouse, M; Arabesque, The Age, Critics, 18 Feb, p.24 Gill, H; Appeal of the unreal, Herald Sun, Visual Art, 22 Feb, p.6 Hall, L; The Falls before the Falls, The Herald Sun, Visual Art, 1 Aug Hardiman, C; Chalk and Cheese, Arts and Writing Program, Radio 3WBC, Interview, Feb Hill, P; White Mantle, Landscapes cloaked in winter’s splendor, The Age, Metro, 11 Jul, p.14 Tonkin, S; Meeting Place, Keeping Place, Exhibition Catalogue, The Melbourne Arts Centre, Melbourne Zevela, D; Digital Games. Digital Winners, Real Time, Winter, p.27 Zuvela, Danni; IDAA and The Harries, Eyeline, Contempory Visual Arts, #61 Spring 2006, p49 International Digital Awards, Desk Top: Australian Design Digital Culture Magazine, Illustration, 5 Apr About Town, The Australian Financial Review, 8-14 July, p.43 Nelson, R; Russian dream rendered purposeful, The Age, Agenda Magazine, Sightlines - Critical exhibition guide, 16 Jul, p.8 The A List - What’s on Today, The Age, A3 Arts, 22 Jul, p.11 Giudici, A; What’s on this week, The Sunday Age, Agenda Magazine, 18 Jul, p.21 Crawford, A; Review, Sunday Age, Agenda Magazine, 11 Jul, p.21 Rooney, R; Galleries, A Select Short List, The Australian, 9 Apr McCulloch, S; Review Visual Arts, Herald Sun, 30 Mar Zimmer, J; The beast in Man on Display, Arts, The Sun Herald, 5 Aug Neylon, J; A work of arts elusive commodity: Expression, The Adelaide Advertiser, 27 May Catalano, G; Art, The Age, Oct Millar, R; Entertainment - Art Exhibitions, The Herald Sun, 18 Oct Carmichel, R; Artscene, The Herald Sun, 21 Mar Holloway, M; Art, The Age, 15 Mar Millar, R; Small is Beautiful, Herald Sun, 22 Mar, p.24 Eagle, M; Art And Entertainment, The Age, 30 May McCulloch, A; Art, The Age, May Awards 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 Best Experimental Animation, Pretty Ballerina, 2010 Enhance TV ATOM Awards (finalist), Melbourne Best Experimental Animation, Journey From Pinsk, 2009 Enhance TV ATOM Awards (finalist), Melbourne th Best Animation Film Award, The 7 Annual Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, Canada Best Experimental Section, Broken Spell, 2008 Enhance TV ATOM Awards (finalist), Melbourne Best Experimental Animation, Insect, San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, Canada Best Experimental Animation, Insect, Enhance TV ATOM Awards, Melbourne (finalist), Melbourne Collections Australian War Memorial Art Collection BHP Billiton Art Collection, Melbourne Geelong Regional Gallery, VIC Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane National Gallery of Victoria Philip Morris Collection, Melbourne The University of Melbourne Collection INVIDEO by A.I.A.C.E., Milan, Italy
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