Matti Braun
Rion

12 SEP until 15 NOV 2025
Opening – 11 SEP 2025, 6-10 pm

For Berlin Art Week 2025, BQ presents a solo exhibition by Matti Braun (b. 1968, Berlin) featuring a new series of glass works.

Matti Braun views objects as sedimented forms, as crystallisations of overlapping stories. His works delineate a network of global transmission processes, being at once trace and catalyst. They subvert cultural attributions and conventions of originality, authorship, and modernity.

From Indian cultural history to science fiction, batik, and glass, Braun explores aesthetic spheres that lie beyond the art world. He conducts research, visits production sites, and learns traditional techniques. He temporarily becomes part of micro- and macro-systems unfolding at the margins of cities, countries, and narratives. This extensive experimentation results in plays, installations, and lectures – as well as photographs, assemblages, paintings, and objects.

In his exhibition “Rion”, Braun presents new, traditionally hand-blown plate glass works in various colours, forming a transparent window installation accompanied by other three-dimensional glass works and new batik paintings. The glass discs capture fluid states, reflecting their surroundings and interacting with the light and weather. Similar to the batik works, they oscillate between everyday object, cultural reference, minimal art, image, and concrete object. Each one is different, one possibility among many: concentrated, handmade, yet devoid of an individual signature. They follow a migratory logic in which materials, perceptions, and meanings are in perpetual flux.

Text by Juliane Duft