Mattijs Visser

Mat(tijs) Visser (born 1958, The Hague, Netherlands) studied architecture in Delft, the Netherlands and is since then an organiser of performances and art exhibitions. He was head of exhibitions at Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf for eight years (2001–08), curated historical exhibitions, and is best known for his Artempo exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. He is since 2008 the founding director of the international ZERO foundation.

Mattijs Visser has been producing exhibitions and performances since 1984, with artists as Ilya Kabakov, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Jan Fabre, Robert Wilson, Kimsooja, Wim Delvoye, Laurie Anderson, El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Dragset and Elmgreen, Tino Sehgal, Spencer Tunick and Carsten Höller. He organised for the Museum Kunst Palast and the Royal Academy of Arts London classical exhibitions as Bonjour Russia, masterworks from the four Russian Museums (2007). For Museum Kunst Palast the Late Works by Andy Warhol (2004),Dubuffet and Art Brut, the travelling show Africa Remix (2005–07), the Caravaggio show (2006) and Diana+Actaeon, a view on nudity. He curated the exhibition Slow Art / Slow Life (2005) in which contemporary and performance art met with classical art. For the Quadriennale Düsseldorf the international ZERO (2006) show. For the City of Venice he made the concept for the prize-winning exhibition Artempo (2007) at the Venetian Palazzo Mariano Fortuny with the collection of Axel Vervoordt and the City of Venice. For the Nuit Blanche in Paris a large SKY-event with floating objects by Otto Piene. For Museum Kunst Palast he curated in 2009 an exhibition with accompanying publication for Marlene Dumas. 2009 he was co-curator for the Moscow Biennale and for the Venice Biennale he curated together with Daniel Birnbaum the large Gutai show at the Central Pavilion. His exhibition ZERO in NY at Sperone Westwater (2008) was nominated in 2009 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NY as best gallery exhibition of the year 2008. For the ZERO foundation he curated exhibitions with Norbert Kricke, Jean Tinguely at the Tony Cragg Foundation Wupertal, and Jef Verheyen and ZERO friends at the Langen Foundation Neuss. Nul = 0 is the first large exhibition with the international ZERO group after the historical exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the sixties, 2010 at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. 2013 The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania invited him and Jean-Hubert Martin to organise the traveling show "Theater of the World. After receiving prices for best design and lighting, the show traveled from Hobart 2013 to Maison Rouge in Paris.

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