MPavilion Opening November 2020

Mathieu Briand

Mathieu Briand has participated in international group and solo exhibitions in major museums such as Centre Pompidou-Paris/France, Bloomberg Space-London/UK, Jumex Founation-Mexico city/Mexico, Walker Art Center-Minneapolis/USA, Sharjah Art Foundation-Sharjah/UAE, ICC-Tokyo/Japan, Moca-Tapei/Taiwan, SiteSantafe-Santafe/USA and Macba- Barcelone/Spain.
For seven years Mathieu Briand worked on a project called Et In Libertalia Ego, which was based on the idea of the pirate’s utopia of ‘Libertalia’. The first volume of the project was shown in La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2015, while the second, Et In Libertalia Ego Vol. II was presented at MONA, in Hobart in 2016.
His work has been presented in Australia at CCP-Melbourne, ACMI-Melbourne, Murray White Room-Melbourne, Spring-Melbourne/Sydney, Arndt-Melbourne, Carriageworks-Sydney, MONA-Tasmania. Briand received First prize in the biennale of Istanbul in 2001. He has created permanent installations including Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo – Fools Move Mountains Nanling, China (2005), and SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, for the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2004).

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.