Matt Copson Coming of Age. Age of Coming.

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.

The exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s first monograph, co-published with CURA..

Curator: Emma Enderby
Assistant Curator: Lara Scherrieble