Matthias Zimmermann was born in Basel, in the canton of Aargau. He studied at the University of Arts Berne Music/Composition, at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Fine Art, at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Game Design and Art Education and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET) pedagogy and didactic methods. His artworks become a great reception in international exhibitions.Zimmermanns artworks are included in collections of various museums. Many authors wrote reflexive and scientific texts about his artworks in Epistemology, virtual representation of space, Video game art, atmospheric design and Japanese Garden design.
Video game art
2013 the Computer Games Museum Berlin presents Zimmermanns artworks with a monographical spezial exhibition. Zimmermanns artwork has been reflected how the theme of computer games can be expressed by pictorial means instead. The exhibition was divided into the aspects of Toy block, Virtuality and Space Machine. The focus of this exhibition was the series The Space Machine. This shows the interaction of energy, hardware and software.
Exhibitions
Museum of Art Aarau, Switzerland: Selection 11, 2011
Art Museum of Lucerne, Switzerland: Annual Exhibition, 2011
Computer Games Museum Berlin, Germany: Model Worlds – Pictures by Matthias Zimmermann, 2013
Computer Games Museum Berlin/Institution of Digital Culture, Germany: Supersample - Pixels at an Exhibition, 2015
Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Denmark: Vokseværk, 2015
St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck/Landeshaus Kiel, Germany: KunSt aktuell im LandesHaus, 2015
Ludwig Museum of Art, Germany: Matthias Zimmermann - From Videogame towards the Apocalypse, 2016
Inventory
Artwork of Matthias Zimmermann are inventoried at the following museums and cultural institutions:
Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Odysseum - Science Center, Germany
Ludwig Museum of Art, Germany
Museum of Art Aarau, Switzerland
Buchheim Museum of Fantasy, Germany
Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, USA
MoFA - Florida State University / Museum of Fine Arts, USA
St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck, Germany
Museum of Art Göppingen, Germany
Computer Museum Kiel, Germany
Computer Games Museum Berlin, Germany
Toy Museum, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art - Collection Hurrle, Germany
Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Denmark
Department of Music, University of Innsbruck
Literatur
Mark R. Hesslinger / Beate Reifenscheid (ed.): Die Realität und das Göttliche - Vom Deutschherrenhaus zum Ludwig Museum 1216 - 2016, with contributions by Frank Bayard, Jens Fachbach, Stefan Heinz, Suzana Leu, Mark R. Hesslinger, Koblenz: Ludwig Museum, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816878-2-8
Christian Huberts, Sebastian Standke (Hrsg.): Between|Worlds: Atmospheres in the Computer Game. Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-86488-063-6
Matthias Zimmermann: Model Worlds, Nordlicht + Norrsken Publishing Company, 2010, ISBN 978-3-9521196-2-4
Publications about Matthias Zimmermann (selection)
Reload: Video Game Art
TV publication: ARD, 07.10.2014
René Stettler: The Realization of Cultural Opportunities in the Form of Images: Matthias Zimmermann's pictures cycle "The Space Machine» (2012 – 2013)
published in Arthistoricum, Publications of Art History. University of Heidelberg
René Stettler: The combination of knowledge, experience and intuition - to Epistemology by Matthias Zimmermann's "Model Worlds"
published in Arthistoricum, Publications of Art History. University of Heidelberg
Swiss Embassy in Moscow: Moscow. Matthias Zimmermann at Winzavod (English & Russian)
published in swiss kul'tura - News about Swiss culture in Russia, Moscow
Graziella Kuhn: Pixel Painting: Create Artworks with Game Design tools
published in Berliner Gazette
Urs Bugmann: Pictures, perfect as a computer game & «The constructed atmosphere»
published in New Lucerne Journal, Switzerland
Urs Bugmann: A World of Extreme Artificiality
published in New Lucerne Journal, Switzerland
Davis Schrapel Art which is inspired by computer games (various article)
published in Games Art, Germany
Anna Chugunova: Model Worlds_Matthias Zimmermann (in Russian)
published in Winzavod Journal - Moscow Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Mary Ledneva: Matthias Zimmermann - solo exhibition at the gallery, "11:12" (in Russian)
