Arts at CERN

Marie Matusz works with sculptural installations, sound, text, and film. Her practice is informed by an intensive theoretical engagement with philosophical, sociological, and linguistic questions, exploring the conditions of perception, visibility, and spatial experience.

She incorporates materials such as steel, acrylic, and mirrors to create fragile arrangements in which volumes, sightlines, and reflections guide and shift the viewer’s perception. The exhibition space functions as a structuring element, where inside and outside, proximity and distance, as well as position and perspective, become tangible relational dimensions. An open, process-oriented dialogue between theory, material, and space forms the foundation of her work, and individual works emerge as part of spatial constellations in which narrative fragments and as much material presence than absence develop their own poetics.

Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Basel (2024, 2025), Istituto Svizzero in Milan (2022), Kunst Raum Riehen (2020) and Aargauer Kunsthaus (2019). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at, among others, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (2025) and Kunstmuseum Bonn (2020). In 2021, Marie Matusz received the Swiss Art Award, in 2020 the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt and Cristina Spoerri Prize, and in 2018 she was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize.

In 2026, Matusz was selected for the Connect India dual residency alongside Moonis Ahmad Shah.