Matthew Ferguson

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Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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People Walking On The Planet Earth (Via Bronco, The Hague), 2025 Performer walking on a looped route in, around, and outside the exhibition at times of their choosing during the open hours of the exhibition People Walking On The Planet Earth (Via Bronco, The Hague, Video Souvenir), 2025 Looped video

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E, 2025 Mechanical ventilation system, galvanized steel Wayfinder, 2025 Unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske DW Series, 2025 Used cardboard, nylon fixings, packing tape

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E, 2025 Mechanical ventilation system, galvanized steel Wayfinder, 2025 Unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske DW Series, 2025 Used cardboard, nylon fixings, packing tape

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske DW Series, 2025 Used cardboard, nylon fixings, packing tape Wayfinder, 2025

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E, 2025 Mechanical ventilation system, galvanized steel Wayfinder, 2025 Unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske DW Series, 2025 Used cardboard, nylon fixings, packing tape

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E, 2025 Mechanical ventilation system, galvanized steel Wayfinder, 2025 Unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske DW Series, 2025 Used cardboard, nylon fixings, packing tape

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Normacolor system (leaf transition green to brown), 2025 Normacolor system paper, twinslot steel uprights, magnets Wayfinder, 2025

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Divider, 2025 Moving blankets made from recyled textiles, timber

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Normacolor system (leaf transition green to brown), 2025 Normacolor system paper, twinslot steel uprights, magnets

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Normacolor system (leaf transition green to brown), 2025 Normacolor system paper, twinslot steel uprights, magnets Portrait of Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E (Presentation Arrangement), 2025 Laser prints on paper, walpaper paste

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Normacolor system (leaf transition green to brown), 2025 Normacolor system paper, twinslot steel uprights, magnets

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Envelopes, posted, sent, unsent, stamps, paper

Correspondance (Bronco, Hoge Zand 28, The Hague, 2512 EM, The Netherlands), 2025 envelopes, posted, sent, unsent, stamps, paper, 2025
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Envelopes, posted, sent, unsent, stamps, paper

Correspondance (Bronco, Hoge Zand 28, The Hague, 2512 EM, The Netherlands), 2025
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Envelopes, posted, sent, unsent, stamps, paper

Correspondance (Bronco, Hoge Zand 28, The Hague, 2512 EM, The Netherlands), 2025
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Laser prints on paper, walpaper paste

Portrait of Orcon WTU-2000‑EC-E (Presentation Arrangement) Detail, 2025
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Divider, 2025 Moving blankets made from recyled textiles, timber

Installation view - Breathers, 2025
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Wayfinder, 2025. Latex paint, colours determined by the wall’s orientation, Installed version 325° NW: D3.71.48, 56° NE: V7.33.25, 165° S: N0.50.30, 237° SW: G8.60.60

Installation view - Breathers, 2025

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His attention begins with existing systems: the mechanical ventilation, the layout of the space, the materials that shape daily function. His approach is to examine what is often overlooked, recognising infrastructure and materials as active parts of a larger whole. Through adjustments and acts of arrangement, his work tests how systems hold together, and where they begin to fail. His practice considers how control, resistance, and maintenance define shared environments, and the ongoing effort required to sustain collective reality. My attention begins with existing systems: the mechanical ventilation, the layout of the space, the materials that shape daily function. My approach is to examine what is often overlooked, recognising infrastructure and materials as active parts of a larger whole. Through adjustments and acts of arrangement, my work tests how systems hold together, and where they begin to fail. My practice considers how control, resistance, and maintenance define shared environments, and the ongoing effort required to sustain collective reality. Your attention begins with existing systems: the mechanical ventilation, the layout of the space, the materials that shape daily function. Your approach is to examine what is often overlooked, recognising infrastructure and materials as active parts of a larger whole. Through adjustments and acts of arrangement, your work tests how systems hold together, and where they begin to fail. Your practice considers how control, resistance, and maintenance define shared environments, and the ongoing effort required to sustain collective reality. Our attention begins with existing systems: the mechanical ventilation, the layout of the space, the materials that shape daily function. Our approach is to examine what is often overlooked, recognising infrastructure and materials as active parts of a larger whole. Through adjustments and acts of arrangement, our work tests how systems hold together, and where they begin to fail. Our practice considers how control, resistance, and maintenance define shared environments, and the ongoing effort required to sustain collective reality.

Websites

matthewferguson.eu

Social media

www.instagram.com/mf.zz

Member of Artists’ Initiative/Collective/Incubator

Bronco

Platform

Exhibitions NOW

Curriculum vitae

Education

2020 - 2022

EngD Smart Buildings and Cities Technische Universiteit Eindhoven diploma
2017 - 2018

MArch Design for Manufacture, Bartlett School of Architecture University College London diploma
2008 - 2011

BA (Hons) Visual Studies Norwich University of the Arts diploma

exhibitions

2026

Upcoming - Bermuda Open Studios The Hague, Netherlands April 2026 Group
2026

Dat verklaar en beloof ik Parterretrap The Hague, Netherlands Upcoming solo exhibition at Parterretrap. March 2026 parterretrap.nl/ Solo
2025

part 50 (thanks for putting on the feedbag) See Lab The Hague, Netherlands it is part of an ensemble, part 50 (thanks for putting on the feedbag) itispartofanensemble.com/?page=part/50/part%2050.html Group
2025

Breathers Bronco The Hague, Netherlands Breathers, a solo exhibition by Matthew Ferguson, begins with a single object: an Orcon WTU-2000-EC-E mechanical ventilation unit. Constantly running, it moves air through the building, maintaining the conditions that allow everything else to occur. From this starting point, the exhibition is created through a layering of works and actions: an unofficial reconstruction of Charlotte Posenenske’s DW Series, performance routes that loop through and beyond the building, temporary arrangements of materials, and shared events. Together, these elements explore how systems of air, labour, and attention shape one another. Rather than fixed objects, the works operate as processes, circulating, adjusting, and maintaining. Solo
2025

The Moon Under Water Bronco The Hague, Netherlands The Moon Under Water, a group show in a windowless space at the intersection of four studios. Borrowing its title from Orwell's imagined pub, the show offers a spot to pause, to drift, an to encounter. A place to be alone together, or meet another. Where time is only marked by those who pass through it. A place where everybody knows your name, or at least, what you’re drinking. With work by Bob Demper, Matthew Ferguson, Zoë Hollander, Daisy Madden-Wells, Marnix van Uum, and Hanae Werinussa Wilke With work by Bob Demper, Matthew Ferguson, Zoë Hollander, Daisy Madden-Wells, Marnix van Uum, and Hanae Werinussa Wilke Group
2024

Loose Harness Bronco The Hague, Netherlands Loose Harness. Featuring five artists working in close proximity, this exhibition marks the first time their works are brought together. Here, to harness is not to contain but to open a space of potential. With work by Matthew Ferguson, Zoë Hollander, Daisy Madden-Wells, Marnix van Uum and Hanae Werinussa Wilke. Group
2024

Spooky House De Hillevliet Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
2024

Bermuda Open Studios The Hague, Netherlands Bermuda Open is a yearly open studio event that presents studios of artists with a contemporary practice in the city of The Hague (NL). bermudaopen.studio Group
2022

Drivers of Change Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, Netherlands ddwtue.nl/projects/2022p-tool-for-3d-concrete-print/ Group
2022

ROASD TU Eindhoven Eindhoven, Netherlands Group
2021

BE-AM Form Next Frankfurt, Germany Group
2017

Fifteen Bartlett School of Architecture London, United Kingdom Group
2015

The Ultimate Vessel Koppe Astner Glasgow, United Kingdom For the exhibition The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner invited artists to make a vessel with no guidelines other than that the object had to hold a flower. The idea for the show was inspired by Magali Reus and Matthew Smith – two artists that both coincidently made impromptu vessels in their studios. The exhibition was accompanied by a text written by the artist Simon Fujiwara. The ending reads, ‘How can a flower speak alone when the vessel speaks for it? And, given the chance to speak, what would these flowers and these vessels say about our lost and lonely world?’ kendallkoppe.gallery/ Group
2015

Making Space The Minories Galleries Colchester, United Kingdom Making Space presents work by artists who have explored ways of documenting, recording or responding to space, whether as a physical or psychological environment. Space can be made or defined across times, through sounds, via actions or by other means. Space is one of the tools we use to define ourselves – the space between us and other things positions us, and is how we help to locate ourselves within the world and plan our next move. Space can be physical or psychological, or both. Making Space presents work by artists who have explored ways of documenting, recording or responding to space, whether as a physical or psychological environment. A parallel incidental exploration also occurs around the question of the making of an artwork, and when an artwork becomes completed. This is particularly relevant in relation to artworks that are performed. The “making space” that is referred to in this case is the space where something is made, or perhaps where something manifests itself – sometimes these two things may occur within the same space, at others they are clearly defined and distinct. Barbara Dougan & Darren Ellis, Matthew Ferguson, Glen Jamieson, Phil Mill, Mandy Roberts, Holly Rumble, Andrew Vass, Jevan Watkins-Jones www.theminories.org/ Group
2015

Alioli OUTPOST Norwich, United Kingdom Jo Addison | Eric Bainbridge | Matthew Ferguson | Robert Filby | Pierre-Charles Flipo | Georgia Hayes | Simon Newby | Karin Ruggaber | Yonatan Vinitsky www.norwichoutpost.org/programme/alioli Group
2014

20 September – 10 October 2014 Gildengate House Norwich, United Kingdom Solo
2013

While it Lasts Eastside Projects Birmingham, United Kingdom Curated by Eleanor Morgan Benedict Drew David Raymond Conroy Hannah Perry Joanne Masding Matthew Ferguson Matthew Noel-Tod eastsideprojects.org/projects/while-it-lasts/ Group
2013

Artist Film Fortnight The Lombard Method Birmingham, United Kingdom thelombardmethod.org Group
2012

Working Here Tokonoma Kassel, Germany Working Here (as Gossamer School of Art with Isabel Gylling & Kate Murphy) www.supertokonoma.de/ Duo
2012

Recollect Wysing Arts Center Bourn, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (as Better Futures Forever with Isabel Gylling & Kate Murphy) The group Better Futures Forever responded to the exhibition by curating their own show, with the work of five artists, in Wysing’s gallery before Recollect was installed. In editing these images, certain elements of Wysing’s gallery have been amended or improved, raising questions about how memories of real space and activity are fixed and manipulated. By co-opting a public space for private use and allowing access to this act only through mediated images the group play with tensions between public and private space wysing.art Group

Projects

2026
Omgezet Press Self initiated The Hague, Netherlands omgezet.nl/ Materials, ideas, and thoughts converted into printed matter. Small publisher for the creation of artist books.
2026
10 9 8 7 Library Self initiated The Hague, Netherlands www.librarycat.org/lib/10987 (In progress) Cataloging of a book collection, moving between public and private. Developing an archive to use as reference for, and within, other projects. In collaboration with Hanae Werinusa Wilke.
2025
Exhibitions NOW Self initiated The Hague, Netherlands exhibitionsnow.nl/ Contemporary Art Listings The Hague. Run in collaboration with Hanae Werinussa Wilke.
2022
3D concrete printed bridge Rijkswaterstaat Eindhoven, Netherlands Developed a design tool for Rijkswaterstaat to design and fabricate 3D concrete bridges. The bridges would be functional but also a form of public sculpture. Worked with a team of structural engineers to develop and test the project.

Secondary art-related activities

2025 - 2025

Workshop for Master Non Linear Narrative, KABK
2025 - --

Developing exhibitions and events listings website for The Hague. ExhibitionsNOW.nl - The ambition is to create a useful platform for artists in The Hague, and help promote artist run and DIY activities. On-going
2024 - --

Organising events and exhibitions at Bronco, The hague. On-going
2022 - --

Teaching digital design and fabrication at TU Eindhoven On-going
2018 - 2023

Worked on architectural design and fabrication projects. Fabrication of artists work, public sculpture, public art. Developing digital design and fabrication processes.
2014 - 2017

Set up artist run space, Greatorex, London. Curated programme of exhibitons including Berry Patten, Issy Wood, Gina Fischli, Olu Ogunnaike and Atiéna R. Kilfa.
2012 - 2014

Co-director OUTPOST gallery, Norwich. Curated exhibition programme.