MAGDA MATWIEJEW

Selected Biography

Born in Wangen, Germany in 1956, Magda Matwiejew arrived in Australia in 1958. She lives and works in Melbourne.

Since her first solo show at Pinacotheca, Melbourne in 1979, Madga has exhibited at Realities Gallery, Melbourne; Luba Bilu, Gallery, Melbourne; and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne. Notable among the solo exhibitions showcasing her more recent digital art practice are Broken Spell (2008) Arabesque (2006) and Vavara: Beyond Memory (2004), all held at the Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne.

Her current work has also featured in many prominent digital art festivals and awards both locally and abroad, including SonZhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China (2008); Digital Long Island Festival, New York, IMAC Theatre, USA (2007); IDAP ZAIM Art Space, Yokohama (partnership with Yokohama Art Project, city of Yokohama and the Japan Foundation) (2007); Athens Video Art Festival, Athens (2007); Technopolis Cultural Center, Athens (2007); San Diego Women Film Festival, Museum of Photographic Arts and Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park, San Diego, California (2007); St Kilda Film Festival, Melbourne (2007); After Urban, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2007); Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne (2006 & 2007), New Media-Film-Video-Photomedia, Today Art Museum, Beijing (2006); ACMI Atom Awards, ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne (2006); Too Much Freedom, LA Freewaves New Media Arts, UCLA Center Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (2006); The Harries, National Digital Art Award, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2006, 2005 & 2007); Award for Best Experimental Animation, The San Francisco Women's Film Festival San Francisco (2006); Indiana International Video Art and Architecture Festival, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana (2006); River's Edge Film Festival, (2006); and Temporary Identities, The Third Novosibirsk International Festival of Digital Imaging, Animation and Video Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia (2006).

Magda has also exhibited in a number of significant group shows: White Mantle: The Winter Landscape in Australian Art, Geelong Gallery and Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, The Arts Centre.

Magda is represented in several major public and corporate collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane; Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria; Australian War Memorial Art Collection; Philip Morris Collection, Melbourne; The University of Melbourne; and BHP Billiton, Melbourne.

Full CV

Essay by Rachael Watts 2008

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