Pia Matthes

EXHIBITION VENUE: TUFA (11)

Pia Matthes – born 1989. Training: 2017: Diploma in product design at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe – 2015: one-year stay at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. Selected solo exhibitions: 2025: istanbuluzern, Lucerne. Selected group exhibitions: 2024: Milano Design Week, Drop City – 2023: Milano Design Week, Museo d’Arte e Scienza – 2023: Do you live here?, Galerie Stallmann Berlin – 2022: Ein sauberes Ende, Lucerne Festival – 2022: FOKUS: Ornament – Vienna Design Week – 2022: Collectible Brussels – 2022: BEYOND CRAFTS, Istanbul – 2021: Parkettkosmos, Kunsthaus Zürich – 2021: Milano Design Week, Galerie Antonia Jannone – 2019: Gestein, Soil, Sediment, Stone, Kunstverein Kärnten. Awards and funding: 2024: istanbuluzern – 2022: Crafts from Anatolia, Designs from Europe – Turkish Design Council – 2022: Camekân from the Istanbul Design Biennial – 2020: IKEA Stiftung.

©Portrait: Lea Huser
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Connection to Rhineland-Palatinate

“I grew up in Speyer and still feel closely connected to the Palatinate, both landscape and culturally. The red sandstone, wine culture, and regional history shape my artistic work.”