MATTI STURT-SCOBIE
CLIENTS
NXT MUSEUM, Q21 MUSEUMSQUARTIER, ENVISIONING FREE SPACES CONFERENCE, GALERIE RON MANDOS, GALERIE GERHARD HOFLAND, AMSTERDAM ART, GALERIE MARTIN VAN ZOMEREN, BOGOMIR DORINGER, METROPOLISM, ELIA ART SCHOOLS, CYANOTYPES AND MORE...
NXT MUSEUM, Q21 MUSEUMSQUARTIER, ENVISIONING FREE SPACES CONFERENCE, GALERIE RON MANDOS, GALERIE GERHARD HOFLAND, AMSTERDAM ART, GALERIE MARTIN VAN ZOMEREN, BOGOMIR DORINGER, METROPOLISM, ELIA ART SCHOOLS, CYANOTYPES AND MORE...
“Haptic” relating to touch and “cache” to the storage of memory: a Haptic Cache is a space wherein the touch one feels in encountering cultural artifacts/experiences is impactfully housed.
The goal: to create containers for affect and somatic response, such that our experience(s) of Art can be effectively retrieved and re-transmitted in the works we use to support and analyse them.
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SELECTED WORKS
Review
6 Sep—3 Nov 2024
Some words of the exhibition text of Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men are redacted. Are the artists keeping something from us? Matti Sturt-Scobie visits the exhibition at W139 to unpack these absences: are they empty spaces to fill, or borders denying entry?
Cruising for Meaning – Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men at W139
6 Sep—3 Nov 2024
Some words of the exhibition text of Remarkable Meetings with Disgusting Men are redacted. Are the artists keeping something from us? Matti Sturt-Scobie visits the exhibition at W139 to unpack these absences: are they empty spaces to fill, or borders denying entry?
Metropolis M
Artists
EMIRHAKIN, Andreas Tegnander and Ossip Blits, Başak Layiç, Batuhan Keskiner, Can Demren, Elif Satanaya Özbay, Ghaith Kween Qoutainy, Ghenwa noiré, Jonas Lerch, Ksenia Yurkova, Mohammed Tatour, Sipan Sezgin Tekin, Zalán Szakács,
Review
March 2024
Through Yarrow Ballet’s first compilation tape, its curator Ofra Beenen offers us worlds of shadow and tenderness to bask within or roam. Altogether, providing a listening experience like none other: a 45-minute wander beneath streaking celestial lights and over treacherous—often coarse—analogue terrains.
Yarrow Ballet V.A. 01
March 2024
Through Yarrow Ballet’s first compilation tape, its curator Ofra Beenen offers us worlds of shadow and tenderness to bask within or roam. Altogether, providing a listening experience like none other: a 45-minute wander beneath streaking celestial lights and over treacherous—often coarse—analogue terrains.
Yarrow
Ballet
Ballet
Artists
, Norherenorthere, Pasiphae, Dissemblance, Mme Psychosis, Dim Garden, Glaring, Legowelt, Betonkust, Loveth, G4Yfx
© Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
Review
27.02.2024
Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts Biennial marks its 30th year with the two-part exhibition The Spell of the Sensuous, hosted by W139 and Looiersgracht 60. After visiting both spaces Matthew Sturt-Scobie thinks about artists’ roles in addressing ecological uncertainty through the means of humor and enchantment ...
The Spell of the Sensuous — Sonic Acts Biennial at W139 and Looiersgracht 60
27.02.2024
Amsterdam’s Sonic Acts Biennial marks its 30th year with the two-part exhibition The Spell of the Sensuous, hosted by W139 and Looiersgracht 60. After visiting both spaces Matthew Sturt-Scobie thinks about artists’ roles in addressing ecological uncertainty through the means of humor and enchantment ...
Metropolis M
Artists
Annika Kappner, Brackish Collective, Harun Morrison, Jota Mombaça, Lukas Marxt, Natasha Tontey, Pedro Matias, touche-touche,
Elena Khurtova,
© 20 Seconds Magazine
Interview
Interview with Dutch/Serbian Artist Researcher Bogomir Doringer
14.11.2023
Intro:
In this interview, artist, researcher and curator Bogomir Doringer discusses his work and interests in the intersection of art, dance, and socio-political issues, together with writer and critic Matti Sturt-Scobie. He explores the rituals of masking and dancing as a form of resistance. Doringer reflects on the social changes that occurred after 9/11, particularly the rise of islamophobia nd its impact on freedom of movement and immigration policies. He emphasises the political nature of dance and its ability to empower marginalized communities.
© Nieuwe Instituut
Exhibition Review
28.11.2023
Will art made of outdated tech continue to bear intrigue for modern audiences? Matthew Sturt-Scobie visits the ambitious exhibition REBOOT at Nieuwe Instituut, made in collaboration with media art platform Li-Ma. It presents key technology-driven artworks from 1960 to 2000 alongside contemporary digital art...
Between 8-Bit and 8K: visiting 'REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art'
28.11.2023
Will art made of outdated tech continue to bear intrigue for modern audiences? Matthew Sturt-Scobie visits the ambitious exhibition REBOOT at Nieuwe Instituut, made in collaboration with media art platform Li-Ma. It presents key technology-driven artworks from 1960 to 2000 alongside contemporary digital art...
Metropolis M
Artists
Annie Abrahams, Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt, Driessens & Verstappen, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk, Lancel/Maat, Jan Robert Leegte, Yvonne Le Grand, Peter Luining, Martine Neddam, Marnix de Nijs and Edwin van der Heide, Dick Raaijmakers, Joost Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Steina, Peter Struycken, Michel Waisvisz and with contemporary responses by Janilda Bartolomeu, Cihad Caner, Dries Depoorter, Swendeline Ersilia, Ali Eslami, Jonas Lund, Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters, Play the City and Brui5er,
Review
06.11.2023
Standing up for our digital rights is long-overdue. That’s why IMPAKT organized Our Terms, Our Conditions: a five-day festival that challenges the big-tech corporations that have too long defined our terms of engagement with them. Matthew Sturt-Scobie visits the festival...
‘Lets turn big tech into fair tech’ – visiting IMPAKT festival 2023
06.11.2023
Standing up for our digital rights is long-overdue. That’s why IMPAKT organized Our Terms, Our Conditions: a five-day festival that challenges the big-tech corporations that have too long defined our terms of engagement with them. Matthew Sturt-Scobie visits the festival...
Metropolis M
Curators
Director and Lead Curator: Arjon Dunnewind; Guest Curators: Ezgi Aktug & Merit Zimmermann, Adrienne Cassel & Ruby Justice Thelot, Niv Fux, Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang, Dunja Nešović, Miranda Mungai;
© IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture
Exhibition Review
10/02/2023 – 10/04/2023
Like many I’m sure, the spectre of ‘productivity’ seems to haunt my every waking hour. Out of Office, an exhibition taking place at IMPAKT, Centre for Media Culture enticed me because of its lofty ...
Out of Office: IMPAKT
10/02/2023 – 10/04/2023
Like many I’m sure, the spectre of ‘productivity’ seems to haunt my every waking hour. Out of Office, an exhibition taking place at IMPAKT, Centre for Media Culture enticed me because of its lofty ...
Metropolis M
Artists
Art Goss, Alina Lupu, Sam Meech, Adrian Melis, Mario Santamaría, Tytus Szabelski, Pilvi Takala, Total Refusal en 996.icu,
© Nxt Museum
Essay
A Queer Reading: UFO, Unidentified Fluid Other
March 2023
In celebration of Queer History Month 2023, Nxt Museum is proud to invite Art Writer and team member Matti Sturt-Scobie to reflect on the relationship between technology, art and the queer body and our current exhibition ...
Nxt
Museum
Nxt
Museum
Artists
Harriet Davey, Oseanworld, Julius Horsthuis, The Fabricant, Audrey Large, Jacolby Satterwhite, Lu Yang, Ksawery Kirklewski,
© Garage Rotterdam
Press Texts
Screen, Screen, on my Phone. Who’s the Fairest of them All?
04/02/2023 – 09/04/2023
Since we first caught sight of our reflections in still, dark waters, we have persued self-image - driving us to refine the technologies we use to do so. At each step of this evolution, from silver-nitrate ...
Screen, Screen, on my Phone. Who’s the Fairest of them All?
04/02/2023 – 09/04/2023
Since we first caught sight of our reflections in still, dark waters, we have persued self-image - driving us to refine the technologies we use to do so. At each step of this evolution, from silver-nitrate ...
Garage
Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Artists
Lena Kuzmich, Alli Coates & Signe Pierce, CROSSLUCID, Mamali Shafahi, Rachel Maclean,
© Nxt Museum
Article
I’mPossible
Published 04/08/2022
Let me begin with a little introduction: I go by Matti, (they/them pronouns) and like many on the queer spectrum, my “identity” today is the outcome of a progressive shedding of languages ...
I’mPossible
(Pride X Nxt Museum 2022)
Published 04/08/2022
Let me begin with a little introduction: I go by Matti, (they/them pronouns) and like many on the queer spectrum, my “identity” today is the outcome of a progressive shedding of languages ...
Nxt
Museum
Museum
Artists
Harriet Davey, Oseanworld, Julius Horsthuis, The Fabricant, Audrey Large, Jacolby Satterwhite, Lu Yang, Ksawery Kirklewski,
Exhibition Texts
UFO: Unidentified Fluid Other
11/06/2022 – 03/09/2023
UFO - Unidentified Fluid Other, cuts loose from physical life's gravity and explores who we are becoming in virtual worlds. While artists detect the early tremors of our approaching ...
UFO: Unidentified Fluid Other
11/06/2022 – 03/09/2023
UFO - Unidentified Fluid Other, cuts loose from physical life's gravity and explores who we are becoming in virtual worlds. While artists detect the early tremors of our approaching ...
Nxt
Museum
Museum
Artists
Harriet Davey, Oseanworld, Julius Horsthuis, The Fabricant, Audrey Large, Jacolby Satterwhite, Lu Yang, Ksawery Kirklewski,
Exhibition Texts
No Dancing Allowed
22/06/2022 – 20/11/2022
After sudden isolation struck like sunrise to an over-dilated eye, a new and uncertain world seeped into focus. Dance and uncertainty are by no means strangers: congregation and movement ...
Q21
Vienna
Q21
Vienna
Artists
Authentically Plastic & Keith Zenga King, Colectivo LASTESIS, Nick Coutsier, Jeremy Deller, EMIRHAKIN, Escape 010101 | Yannet Vilela & Jesper Frederiksen, Lucia Fernandez Santoro, Gabber Modus Operandi & Rimbawan Gerilya, KAMVA Collective | Chris Kets & Amílcar Patel, Adriana Knouf, Vera Logdanidi, Luiz Felipe Lucas, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey, Clémence Mira, Ania Nowak, Nude Robot, Nyege Nyege, OTION, Natalia Papaeva, Julius Pristauz, Shanghai Community Radio, Anton Shebetko, Space of Urgency & Jan Beddegenoodts & Maximilian Mauracher, Spiral Tribe | Mark Angelo Harrison, Maša Stanić, Paula Strunden, Olga Udovenko (Udda), United We Stream, Bambi van Balen | TOOLS FOR ACTION, Liam Young, #FreeBritney,
logo © e-flux
Press Text
Published 14/06/2022
Dance and uncertainty are no strangers, congregation and movement when responding to personal and collective crises: a dance of urgency. Such a dance aims to empower individuals and groups to build communities of resistance ...
No Dancing Allowed
Published 14/06/2022
Dance and uncertainty are no strangers, congregation and movement when responding to personal and collective crises: a dance of urgency. Such a dance aims to empower individuals and groups to build communities of resistance ...
e-flux
e-flux
Artists
Authentically Plastic & Keith Zenga King, Colectivo LASTESIS, Nick Coutsier, Jeremy Deller, EMIRHAKIN, Escape 010101 | Yannet Vilela & Jesper Frederiksen, Lucia Fernandez Santoro, Gabber Modus Operandi & Rimbawan Gerilya, KAMVA Collective | Chris Kets & Amílcar Patel, Adriana Knouf, Vera Logdanidi, Luiz Felipe Lucas, Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Himey, Clémence Mira, Ania Nowak, Nude Robot, Nyege Nyege, OTION, Natalia Papaeva, Julius Pristauz, Shanghai Community Radio, Anton Shebetko, Space of Urgency & Jan Beddegenoodts & Maximilian Mauracher, Spiral Tribe | Mark Angelo Harrison, Maša Stanić, Paula Strunden, Olga Udovenko (Udda), United We Stream, Bambi van Balen | TOOLS FOR ACTION, Liam Young, #FreeBritney,
Exhibition Text
Softly Seized
12/05/2022 – 11/06/2022
Softly Seized presents us a moment in the perpetual and multidimensional exercises of Navid Nuur. Nuur seeks to access a glance at an oft-unobserved common language; to unburden oneself ...
Softly Seized
12/05/2022 – 11/06/2022
Softly Seized presents us a moment in the perpetual and multidimensional exercises of Navid Nuur. Nuur seeks to access a glance at an oft-unobserved common language; to unburden oneself ...
Galerie
Martin van
Zomeren
Martin van
Zomeren
Artists
Solo Exhibition by Navid Nuur (1976, Netherlands/Iran)
© Galerie Martin van Zomeren
Exhibition Text
Hypernuit
22/01/2022 – 26/02/2022
Hypernuit draws together a series of works by Clémence de la Tour du Pin (1986, France), Pedram Sazesh (1993, Iran/Canada) and Vytautas Kumža (1992, Lithuania). The title “Hypernuit” ...
Hypernuit
22/01/2022 – 26/02/2022
Hypernuit draws together a series of works by Clémence de la Tour du Pin (1986, France), Pedram Sazesh (1993, Iran/Canada) and Vytautas Kumža (1992, Lithuania). The title “Hypernuit” ...
Galerie
Martin van
Zomeren
Martin van
Zomeren
Artists
Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Vytautas Kumža, Pedram Sazesh,
© Galerie Martin van Zomeren
Exhibition Text
Anima
03/09/2021 – 09/10/2021
Leykauf draws from a vast collection of landscape paintings, having over time appropriated depictions of landscapes from books and magazines. The work begins when Leykauf experiences from such ...
Anima
03/09/2021 – 09/10/2021
Leykauf draws from a vast collection of landscape paintings, having over time appropriated depictions of landscapes from books and magazines. The work begins when Leykauf experiences from such ...
Galerie
Martin van
Zomeren
Martin van
Zomeren
Artists
Solo Exhibition by Alexandra Leykauf (1976, Germany)
© Galerie Gerhard Hofland
Exhibition Text
Soft People (Erotic)
08/06/202 – 28/07/2021
In Soft People (Erotic), Philipp Kremer (1981, DE) lays arresting swathes of colour that capture us in a space brimming with suggestive topologies. Bodies embrace – some at the point of ...
Soft People (Erotic)
08/06/202 – 28/07/2021
In Soft People (Erotic), Philipp Kremer (1981, DE) lays arresting swathes of colour that capture us in a space brimming with suggestive topologies. Bodies embrace – some at the point of ...
Galerie
Gerhard
Hofland
Gerhard
Hofland
Artists
Solo Exhibition by Philip Kremer (1981, Germany)
Exhibition Text
Crush
23/04/2021 – 05/06/2021
The work of John Kayser is unique in that it was made in secret. A lifetimes oeuvre, like so much of the avant-garde teetering at societies fringes was almost lost for eternity ...
Crush
23/04/2021 – 05/06/2021
The work of John Kayser is unique in that it was made in secret. A lifetimes oeuvre, like so much of the avant-garde teetering at societies fringes was almost lost for eternity ...
Galerie
Gerhard
Hofland
Gerhard
Hofland
Artists
Solo Exhibition by John Kayser (1922 - 2007, USA)
© Galerie Martin van Zomeren
Exhibition Text
Press Eject and Give Me the Tape
26/03/2021 – 08/05/2021
Deep in the discography of the band Bauhaus, there is a surreal moment of fourth-wall breaking; following the end of a track - the sound of a cassette being removed, the click and rattle of plastic extracted ...
Press Eject and Give Me the Tape
26/03/2021 – 08/05/2021
Deep in the discography of the band Bauhaus, there is a surreal moment of fourth-wall breaking; following the end of a track - the sound of a cassette being removed, the click and rattle of plastic extracted ...
Galerie
Martin van
Zomeren
Martin van
Zomeren
Artists
Matt Bryans, Marcel van Eeden, Pieter Engels, Alexandra Leykauf, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Christine Moldrickx, Navid Nuur, Nick Oberthaler, Oscar Abraham Pabón, Cornelius Quabeck, Machteld Rullens, Robbert Weide, Martijn Hendriks, Ehsan Ul Haq,
© Galerie Gerhard Hofland
Exhibition Text
Twenty years immersed in trance-like obsession, the work of Johan Tahon (1965, Belgium) has always bordered craft and invocation, hunger and higher-calling. Tahon has refined his life and ...
Silver Valley
12/03/2021 – 17/04/2021
Twenty years immersed in trance-like obsession, the work of Johan Tahon (1965, Belgium) has always bordered craft and invocation, hunger and higher-calling. Tahon has refined his life and ...
Galerie
Gerhard
Hofland
Gerhard
Hofland
Artists
Solo Exhibition by Johan Tahon (1965, Belgium)
© Galerie Gerhard Hofland
Exhibition Text & Interview
NON RADAR
25/11/2020 – 13/02/2021
In the work of Koen Doodeman metaphor becomes an essential apparatus through which our nebulous human subjectivity can be grasped. Doodeman’s work surveys a glissade between an image ...
NON RADAR
25/11/2020 – 13/02/2021
In the work of Koen Doodeman metaphor becomes an essential apparatus through which our nebulous human subjectivity can be grasped. Doodeman’s work surveys a glissade between an image ...
Galerie
Gerhard
Hofland
Gerhard
Hofland
Artists
Solo Exhibition by Koen Doodeman (1987, Netherlands)