Petra Mattheis

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Petra Mattheis
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Petra Mattheis, Leipzig, Germany, 2017
Born
Moers, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationHochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

Petra Mattheis (born 1967 in Moers) is a German Artist und Photographer. She became known for her artistic engagement with the topic menstruation.

Biography[]

Mattheis studied communications design at the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden and graduated in 1994 with a diploma. She studied Fine Arts at the Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz from 2002 to 2006 and finished with a diploma as well. From 2007 bis 2009 she was a student in the master class of Joachim Blank at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.[1][2]

Works[]

With her website Become A Menstruator[3] as well as with installations and prints, Mattheis investigates menstruation in an artistic, playful approach, questions cultural-historical developments and today's way of dealing with one's own body in our society.[4] Each motif of the blood-red prints in her series BAM – Become a Menstruator corresponds to a fertile year in the life of the artist. While each print is a handmaid original, the size of the edition corresponds with the sum of the periods she had during this year. Thus, Mattheis not only addresses a taboo,[5] her works also receive an autobiographical character.[6]

Solo Exhibitions[]

  • 2006: Überwiegend Schwarz auf Weiß, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden[7]
  • 2009: Pulsierender Pfirsich, Kuhturm, Leipzig[8]
  • 2011: Hinter den Worten, Gallery Queen Anne, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig[9][10]
  • 2015: Arts and Crafts Week at Panty Camp, Gallery The Grass is Greener, Leipzig[11][12]
  • 2017: Riding the Red Tide, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig[13]
  • 2018: Become a Menstruator Booth, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig[14]
  • 2019: Shark Weeks, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt[15]

Selected Group Exhibitions[]

  • 2004: Zwischen, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, with Ilka Meyer[16]
  • 2011: East of Fresno, group exhibition for contemporary art, The Hatchery Art Space, Badger, California[17]
  • 2012: Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen, Bellevuesaal with Klaus Lomnitzer, Wiesbaden[18]

Awards and Scholarships[]

  • 2016: Projektstipendium des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz[2]

Publications[]

  • Nassauischer Kunstverein e.V.: Petra Mattheis und Ilka Meyer. Catalog of the exhibition Zwischen – Petra Mattheis, Ilka Meyer, 9 May to 13 June and 29 June to 11 July 2004; Part of the exhibition series Perspektiven der Zukunft. With contributions by Christian Rabanus, Botho Strauß and Ilka Meyer. NKV, Wiesbaden 2004

References[]

  1. ^ Ausgezeichnete Dissertationen 2006/2007 Archived 14 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, (PDF) S. 48 f.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Balmoral- und Landesstipendiatinnen und -Stipendiaten 2016
  3. ^ Become A Menstruator, becomeamenstruator.org, 2015
  4. ^ Tobias Maier: Jawohl, Mann! Menstruation und Mythos: Petra Mattheis stellt blutrote Prints von Haien, Bären und Tampons aus, der Freitag, 18. Juli 2015
  5. ^ Okka Rohd: Menstruation: Das rote Tuch, Mai 2016
  6. ^ Caroline Ausserer: Der Werwolf in mir, Interview with Petra Mattheis, 22. Juli 2015
  7. ^ Petra Mattheis / Mainly black on white, Nassauischen Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 21 and 22 December 2006
  8. ^ Kuhturm Leipzig
  9. ^ Portfolio Petra Mattheis, Gallery Queen Anne, 21 June 2011
  10. ^ Poetisches Forum – Hinter den Worten – Petra Mattheis, 20 August 2011
  11. ^ Petra Mattheis: »Arts & Crafts Week at Panty Camp«, Gallery The Grass is Greener, 20 June to 25 July 2015
  12. ^ »Become a Menstruator«, Petra Mattheis in conversation with Mithu Sanyal, Gallery The Grass is Greener
  13. ^ Riding the Red Tide, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
  14. ^ Become a Menstruator Booth, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
  15. ^ Shark Weeks, Atelierfrankfurt
  16. ^ Zwischen, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
  17. ^ Group Show: The Hatchery: East of Fresno, Artslant, 24 September 2011
  18. ^ Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, 3 to 27 May 2012

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