BIOGRAPHY 1956 1958 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 2000 1998 1994 1992 1988 1987 1986 1984 1982 1979 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
The Melbourne Underground Film Festival 20-30 September ." Broken Spell" IDAP "The Vernacular Terrain " "BrokenSpell" QUT . Creative industries Block The Darwin Festival , 16th August . "Insect " Darwin. Australia IDAP . ZAIM Art Space Yokohama (partnership with Yokohama Art Project, city of Yokohama NYC Downtown Film Festival audeience choise screenings . Duo Theatre. 13th August . NY America
After Urban ."Insect" Nomad Urban Video Festival Bucharest , Romania October 3rd .
The Dashangzi International Art Festival . Video ,New Media . curated by Zhu Qu St Kilda Film Festival 5th to 10th June . George cinemas. Melbourne Australia. "Insect" 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 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” 1999 1997 1992 Miniatures, Realites Gallery, Melbourne 1990 Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 1989 1988 A New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra COLLECTIONS Australian War Memorial Art Collection INVIDEO by A.I.A.C.E. Milan , Italy
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 . Parker.Page. Tonkin, S., Zuvela, D., Zuvela, Danni.IDAA and The Harries . Eyeline, Contempory Visual Arts . no 61 spring 2006. page 49. Gill, H., Hall, L., Hardiman, C., Hill, P., The Harries National Digital Art Award 2006, Exhibition Catalogue, p19 White Mantel, Exhibition Catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria 2006 Angelatos, V., Backhouse, M., International Digital Awards, Desk Top: Australian Design Digital Culture Magazine, Illustration, 5 April 2005 Crawford, A., The A List - What’s on Today, The Age, Arts A3, 22 July 2004, p11 Nelson, R., Giudici, A., McCulloch, S., Rooney, R., Zimmer, J., Neylon, J., Millar, R., Catalano, G., Holloway, M., Carmichel, R Millar, R., Eagle, M., McCulloch, A.,
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