Matthew Lloyd (1988, Born England UK)
Contact: matthewjohnlloyd@hotmail.com
Lecturing:
Lecturer of Artistic and Theoretical Writing Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany, 2019-2025.
Guest lecturer of Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Performing Public Space Programme, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2021 - 2025.
Guest lecturer for The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia, 2022.
Art advisor for Future.Repair.Machine, European Events and Conferences, Tilburg, Netherlands 2023, Graz, Austria, 2024.
Guest lecturer of Public Space Academy, Bologna, Italy, 2025.
Forthcoming:
Lecturer of Online Short Course, University of Arts London, (UAL), London, 2025
Lectures:
When the real is too real to be realised: Adorno, the traumatic voice and when truth can only exist through fiction. 2019.
Art and moral absolutism: Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus in an age of the anti-apolitical. 2019-20.
Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your…The object, acousmatic and ethical voice in public realms, 2022
“I prefer not to” Bartley’s institutional critique and the importance of performing anti-labour. 2022.
Augmented Futures: The militant artist ego and concerns of creative immediacy. 2023
Visual Manifesto {The Language of Protest}, the art manifesto’s polemic and sublime power in an era of post-civil discourse. 2023 -24.
An artist committed: analysing the films of Banshees of Inisherin (2022), Tár (2022), Menu (2022), and American Fiction (2023). 2024.
Educator as Subject: Gert Biesta’s ‘Aktion’ and de-subjectivizing the biographical classroom. 2024.
The Controversy of Public Art: antagonisms, social values, and the catastrophes within thepublic sphere. 2025
Education:
M.F.A Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Weimar, Germany, 2016 - 2018.
BA (Hons) Graphic Arts: Illustration/Graphic Design, Liverpool John Moores Art and Design Academy, UK, 2008 - 2010.
Fellowships & Awards:
Stiftung Kunstfond artist grant award, germany 2022
Klassik Stiftung-Fredrick Nietzsche-Fellowship, Weimar, Germany, 2022.
Bauhaus University Weimar, Bauhaus Essentials 8 Artist Award, 2017.
GlogauAIR, Berlin Art Residency, 2013 - 2014.
Publications:
Sculptorvox Vol 3: God Complex, 2019.
Press:
Review on Sculptorvox Magazine, 2020.
Thüringische Landeszeitung, 2019.
Writings:
The Occupied Seats of Ukraine - artreview and double negative magazine,2023
Permanent Collection:
You Cannot Hear I? {Buchenwald Forest} Buchenwald Memorial Former Concentration Camp Permanent Collection, Weimar, 2017.
Commissions:
Words Fail Me, ACC Gallery, Weimar, 2019.
No Longer Can Anything Exist In Isolation, Billboard Installation, Kunstfest, Weimar, 2018.
Solo Exhibitions:
Spracherneuerung!, Curated by Janek Müller (HKW), ACC Galerie, Weimar, 2019.
( ) {Voi(ce)d}, Reizueberflutung Gallery, Weimar, 2018.
{I} Billboard Installation, Glogauer Str, Berlin, 2014.
Something Nothing Nothing Something / A Manifesto I, FF Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, 2012.
Think Outside The Box, Arena Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, 2012.
I Don’t Believe In, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, 2010.
Group Exhibitions:
TRAFIK projects - CINEMA, Brühl-Vochem, Germany 2024.
Kunstfest Weimar, Curated by Janek Müller (HKW) 2018.
Bauhaus Essentials 8, Marke.6 Gallery, Weimar, 2017.
Desintegriert Euch!, Gorki - 3rd Herbstsalon, Berlin, 2017.
(Un) Sounds of Buchenwald, Buchenwald Memorial Weimar & Momentum Gallery, Berlin,2017.
GlogauAIR, Open Studio, Berlin, 2014.
HOT-ONE-HUNDRED, Schwartz Gallery, London, 2013.
Passion For Freedom, Unit 24 Gallery, London, 2012.