Matty Roodt (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist trying to master visual and experiential storytelling in various applications ranging from curating to creating films. They have organised and curated many independent group exhibitions and have been practising as a contemporary artist for over 10 years. The focus of their practice has shifted toward filmmaking and its peripheral guises. Matty sees her works as instances of poems, anecdotes and jokes. Transcendental, imaginative and sometimes laced with a peculiar sense of humour.
Hi, I’m Matty!
Selected Group Exhibitions
Travelling Exhibition Edition of Good News, Women in Architecture at Italian Cultural Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) selection of portable works from the main exhibition, facilitated by MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome, Italy)
POV: Short Film Programme, screening hosted and curated by Northwest Film Forum for ByDesign: Architecture and Design Film Festival, as part of Seattle Design Festival (Seattle, USA)
Painting of Horses! at Underprojects (Cape Town) Part of a series of experimental group exhibitions conceptualized and curated by Mitchell Messina
The Objects at Underprojects(Cape Town) a group exhibition of enigmatic objects curated by Sean O’Toole, to coincided with the launch of O’Toole’s new chapbook, The Object (2023).
2023
Social ongoing project showcase curated by Khanya Mashabela at A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town)
Pilot at Underprojects (Cape Town), opening group show of the artist-run space co-founded by Brett Seiler, Guy Simpson, Luca Evans and Mitchell Messina
SLOW DOWN! The 2022 Arquiteturas Film Festival (Porto, Portugal) organised by INSTITUTO, an international platform for discussing and disseminating architectural production through films, exhibitions, and debates.
Sculptures of Cars! at Underprojects (Cape Town), Part of a series of experimental group exhibitions conceptualized and curated by Mitchell Messina.
2022
2021
2020
Monument Premiere at The Labia (Cape Town), independently organised screening of Monument, a film made in collaboration with Lucienne Bestall and Meghan Ho-Tong.
2019
Rocks group exhibition at Gallery, Gallery, a project space hosted by the Gallery (Johannesburg)
Psiturism, group show about nature at DAOR Contemporary Art Gallery (Cape Town)
Architecture Film Summer School on Future Architecture Rooms (online), a virtual environment created by the Future Architecture Platform
Good News, Women in Architecture, a museum wide exhibition curated by Pippo Ciorra, Elena Motisi, Elena Tinacci at MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art (Rome, Italy)
