Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age marks the first institutional solo exhibition by artist Matt Copson (b. 1992, UK). Copson’s multidisciplinary practice explores existential questions surrounding life and contemporary subjectivity, increasingly defined by constant flux, spectacle, and attention. Drawing from pop culture, myths, fables, and cultural archetypes, he creates video works, sculptures, operas, and performative installations that incorporate lasers, sound, and text.
The exhibition at KW will center on Copson’s recent large-scale immersive laser installation. His Coming of Age trilogy—an animated bildungsroman featuring a newborn baby as the protagonist—will take over KW’s main hall. The operatic work explores the basic truths of the human experience through the eyes of a baby exploring the sense and the nonsense of this world.
- Curator: Emma Enderby
- Assistant Curator: Lara Scherrieble
The exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s first monograph, co-published with CURA..
Additional information
Price info: Berlin Welcome Card holders 6,00 €
The purchase of tickets is only possible on site and by card payment.
Price: €10.00
Reduced price: €6.00
Reduced price info: Berlin Welcome Card holders 4,50 €
Free admission to visitors up to and including 18, Friends of KW and Berlin Biennale, and KW Lover* cardholders, Thursday evenings from 18:00–21:00, every first Sunday of a month as part of Museum Sunday Berlin (please book a time slot ticket for Museum Sunday in advance via the booking system. Remaining tickets can be purchased on-site), Berechtigungsnachweis holders (former berlinpass), Recipients of ALG II, students of Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and Universität der Künste Berlin, ICOM Members and Museumsbund Members
