Muda Mathis
Born in 1959.
Muda Mathis is a Swiss artist working in performance, installation and video, as well as a musician and performance activist.
She grew up in Romanshorn with five siblings and trained at the Schule für Gestaltung in St. Gallen and at the F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign in Zurich, where she gained her first experience in performance.
Muda Mathis is a co-founder of the musical performance group Les Reines Prochaines, established in 1987, which challenges traditional boundaries of art and gender.
She was also involved in the establishment of the Atelier- und Produktionsgemeinschaft VIA Basel in 1988, which focuses on audiovisual art.
Muda Mathis has received several distinctions, including the Meret Oppenheim Prize in 2009, which she shared with Sus Zwick.
From 1996 to 2017, she taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, where she contributed to the education of new generations of artists.
Her artistic practice is characterised by frequent collaborations with other artists, particularly in performance and installation projects.
In 2022, she co-curated the exhibition "Bang Bang – Translokale Performance Geschichten" at Museum Tinguely, foregrounding transnational performance histories.