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BIOGRAPHY

1956
Born Germany . Russian Parentage

1958
Arrived Australia

Diploma of Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne

Currently lives and works in Melbourne.

 

AWARDS

2009                 Best Animation. "dot com" Female Eye Film Festival , Toronto . Canada  

2007                 Best Experimental Animation. "Insect" San Fransisco Womens Film Festival 

Finalist             Best esperimental film 2006 Enhance TV ATOM Awards"Insect"

                          Best esperimental film 2008 Enhance TV ATOM Awards " Broken Spell"

                          Best esperimental film 2009 Enhance TV ATOM Awards " Journey From Pinsk"

                         Best esperimental film 2010 Enhance TV ATOM Awards " Pretty Ballerina"

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010

“En Pointe” , Karen Woodbury Gallery , Melbourne

2009

Geelong Gallery , Victoria . " Magda Matwiejew - ' Vavara Beyond Memory " instalation in the Myer Gallery 7 - 22 Feb. Australia

2008

Broken Spell , Karen Woodbury Gallery , Melbourne , Victoria. 18 -15 June.

2006

Arabesque, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

2004
Vavara: Beyond Memory, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne

2000
The River, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne

1998
Works on Paper, Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne

1994
The Way of the Animal Powers, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

1992
Myths and Secrets, Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Recent Paintings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1988
Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1987
Magda Matwiejew, Anima Gallery, Melbourne

1986
Paintings & Works on Paper, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

1984
Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1982
Magda Matwiejew: Paintings, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

1979
Magda Matwiejew, Pinacotheca, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS OF VIDEO and NON VIDEO

2011

2011                INVIDEO by AIACE "Wasp Waist" 16/20 November , Milan , Italy

2011                Videoholica International Video ARt festival, Varna, Bulgaria, 5-12 August

2011                 San Gio - Verona Video festival "Pretty Ballerina"23/27 July . Italy

2011                 Arts Centre, ‘Black Box White Cube: Aspects of performance in contemporary Australian art’, June to September 2011, Magda Matwiejew ,Melbourne , Australia

2011                 Female Eye Film Festival ,”Pretty Ballerina” March 16-20. Nominated for best Experimental Film Torronto ,Canada

2010

St Kilda Film Festival , “Journey From Pinsk” May 25-30 . Melbourne.Australia

London Independent Film Festival, “Journey From Pinsk” . April 15-27. London . UK

Sexy International Paris Film Festival , June 24-27 . The grand Action Cinema . Paris France.

Tiburon International Film Festival , “Journey From Pinsk “ March 18-26,California , USA

The Female Eye Film Festival , “ Journey From Pinsk” Toronto , Canada. March 24-26

Byron Bay International Film Festival, N.S.W. Austaralia.. “Journey From Pinsk” March 5-13

18th CineRail Festival , International festival train and Metro on film “ Journey From Pinsk” Cinema Reflet Medicis 2-9 March . Paris , France.

“Painted Lips and Lolly Licks : The Sexy Film Festival”Mayfair Cinema “dot com” Feb 12 . Ottawa Canada.

2009

INVIDEO 2009. by AIACE "Journey From Pinsk" 12th -16th November. Milan . Italy.

The Moving Image Film Festival , " "Journey From Pinsk" Toronto, Canada .October 17

QUT ,the Block , Brisbane. Traverse curated by Steven Danzig and Lubi Thomas for IDA Projects . "Journey From Pinsk" 23 July / 8 August . Australia

7th Female Eye Film Festival . March 25-29. Toronto Canada . "dot com" nominated for best animation.

Wisconsin Film Festival 2009. " dot com" April . Madison . USA.

2008

INVIDEO 2008. by AIACE "Insect" 12th -16th November. Italy.

Istanbul International Animation Fetsival . 21-30 Nov. "Broken Spell" Turkey

Mir Festival , Melina Cultural center . Athens . 20th September. "Broken Spell" Greece.

Sexy International Film Festival . 6th September. Melbourne . Australia . "Insect"

Atom Awards 2008 Melbourne Victoria Australia." Broken Spell " finalist for best Experimental Film.

Tokyo Film Festival, part of the Yokohama Art Project, partnered by TEPIA . Advanced Technology Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.18th -25th October ."dotcom" courtesy of Vernacular Terrain IDA projects .

Liquid Room . Video Art  and Architecture .  "Broken Spell" National Center for Contemporary Arts. Feb1 -8 2008 .Moscow, Russia.

IDAP  "The Vernacular  Terrain "  "Broken Spell" SonZhuang Art Museum , Beijing ,China 15 Dec -15Jan 2008

Urban Identity.  Monkeytown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York . USA . March 30th "Broken Spell"

After Urban . Internalional Video and Architercture event . Broken Spell. Feb 2008 . Culural Center of Spain ,San Salvador. El Salvador. Soth America.

2007

Westgarth  Film festival    . Palace Westgarth Cinema . " Broken Spell" December  6 - 9.  Melbourne

International Experimental Film Festival Carbunari  in Florean Museum, Baia Mare, Romania  November 16-17, 2007 " Broken Spell"

Digital Long Island Media Festival.   New York . Nov 10  2007.  IMAC Theatre . Huntington.  Liquid Room IAC Collection.  "Insect"  USA


San Diego Women Film Festival  October 4-7, 2007  .Museum of Photographic Arts and Reuben H. Fleet   
Science Center in Balboa Park, San Diego, California.  "Insect" USA

The Melbourne Underground Film Festival 20-30 September ." Broken Spell"

IDAP  "The Vernacular  Terrain "  "BrokenSpell" QUT .  Creative industries Block 
Gallery Brisbane . Australia  28th August.

The Darwin Festival , 16th August . "Insect " Darwin. Australia

IDAP . ZAIM Art Space Yokohama (partnership  with Yokohama Art Project, city of Yokohama
 and the Japan Foundation) "Broken Spell". July 23. Japan

NYC Downtown Film Festival audeience choise screenings . Duo Theatre. 13th August . NY America            
 "Insect"


After Urban - Videoart & architecture event . "Insect" March 1, 2007 Meyerson Hall - University of Pennsylvania, 34th & Walnut - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – USA


After urban. "Insect"  San Salvador , Colonia San Benito , Cultural Center of Spain ,  
 El Salvador , Sept 8th - 29 ,   South America

After Urban ."Insect"  Nomad Urban Video Festival Bucharest , Romania October 3rd  .


 Athens Video Art Festival . 27th-29th April Technopolis Cultural center. Athens ,Greece, 
                             "Insect"

The Dashangzi International Art Festival . Video ,New Media . curated by Zhu Qu
''Insect  " 798 Art District,  Beijing, China. April -May

 St Kilda Film Festival   5th to 10th June . George cinemas. Melbourne  Australia. "Insect"

               
 Liquid Room , Cultural Communication Center Klaipeda, Lithuania  . "Insect"  may24-26 (moving image)

 New England Regional Art Museum Armidale . N.S.W. 9th March . IDA/Harries."Insect"( moving Image)

 Pinnacles Regional Art Gallery . Townsville. Queensland. April19th IDA/Harries"Insect" (moving image)                         

 San Fransisco International Womens Film Festival, U.S.A 15th April , Minna Gallery . "Insect"(moving Image)

Winsconsin International  Film Festival.  Madison . April 12 th to the 15 th  U.S.A. "Insect"(moving Image)

After Urban, University of Pensilvania, Philadelphia, USA, “Insect” (moving image)

2006

Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Melbourne, “Insect” (moving image)

New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Today Art Museum, Beijing . China  “Insect” (moving image)

Atom Awards, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne, “Insect” (moving image)

To Much Freedom, LA Freewaves New Media Arts, UCLA Center Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA, “Arabesque” (moving image)

Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, The Arts Centre, Melbourne

Temporary Cities, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, “Arabesque” (moving image)

Temporary Cities, Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania, “Arabesquet” (moving image)

The Harries: National Digital Art Award, Queensland University of Technology, Arts Precinct, Brisbane “Insect” (moving image)

The San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco, USA, “Arabesque” (moving image)

Indiana International Video Art And Architecture Festival, Indiana University Art Gallery, USA, “Arabesque” (moving image)

River's Edge Film Festival, International ArtExpo Collection, Paducah, Kentucky USA, “Arabesque” (moving image)

Temporary Identities, The Third Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation & Video-Art, Novosibirsk
State Art Museum, Russia, “Arabesque” (moving image)

White mantle - the winter landscape in Australian art, Geelong Gallery, Victoria, Installation  “Vavara” (moving image)

2005

New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Today Art Museum, Beijing . China “Arabesque” (moving image)

International Digital Art Awards, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston

International Digital Art Awards, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne

International Digital Art Awards, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

International Digital Art Awards, QUT, Brisbane, “Vavara: Beyond Memory” (moving image)

Sight Specific South, screening of moving image, Lume Laneway Screen Space, Melbourne, “Vavara: Beyond Memory”
(moving image)

1999
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria

1997
Nature, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne

1992
Ansett Art Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, VIC

Miniatures, Realites Gallery, Melbourne

1990
Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

1989
Selected Works, Realites Gallery, Melbourne

1988
Notations, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne

A New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

COLLECTIONS

Australian War Memorial Art Collection

INVIDEO by A.I.A.C.E. Milan , Italy
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

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tonkin, Steven.  Black Box <> White Cube . Exhibition catalogue, The Melbourne Arts Centre, 2011

Ashley Crawford“En Pointe: Magda Matwiejew” Reviews , Art Link , Vol 30 no 4 ,December 2010

 Rebecca Howden “En Pointe” Arts , Lip Magazine , 4/ 8 / 2010

 Annie Stevens “Labouring The Point” The Arts , The Age, Article. 30 / 7 / 2010

Bejamin Preiss , In focus ," Jorney From Pinsk",Melbourne Weekly , May 19-25 2010

Film Buffs Forcast, Paul Harris interview Magda Matwiejew , "Journey From Pinsk "29 .5.2010

Sandra Lischi “No destination” exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond., Invideo 2009 catalogue. Magda Matwiejew , “journey From Pinsk” page 87

 Sandra Lischi  ,Land and Skies , exhibition of Video and Cinema Beyond . Invideo 2008 catalogue.Magda Matwiejew "Insect " page 81

Rachael Watts “ The Space Between” Karen Woodbury Gallery Catalogue. Magda Matwiejew Broken Spell. 2008

"The Vernacular Terrain Survey Catalogue 1999 to 2008 . "Steven Danzig. pg 51. Magda Matwiejew

Australiann Film Commission . Australian Short Films 227/2008. Animation," Broken Spell "page 117.

Australiann Film Commission . Australian Short Films 2006/2007  . Experimental , Insect page 148 and 160.

Wang Honghai (China) Steve Danzig  Australia .
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