Rene Matić

Rene Matić (@rene.matic ), the 29-year old London-based artist, writer and poet known for their reimaginings of British working-class culture and explorations of queer and West Indian identities, has won the 2026 Deutsche Börse photography prize.⁠ ⁠ The London‑based artist, writer and poet, who was nomiated for the Turner Prize last year, has been selected for their 2025 exhibition 'As Opposed To The Truth', held at Berlin’s Center for Contemporary Arts.⁠ ⁠ Read this news story in full on Ocula via the link in our bio.

Now Open! | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026⁠ ⁠ With a shortlist that highlights photography's powerful reflection on contemporary life, we're excited to present our new exhibition featuring works by the four shortlisted artists: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić. Book now!⁠ ⁠ Jane Evelyn Atwood (b. 1947, New York, USA) documented life in women’s prisons in the 1990s. Her advocacy and investigation expose the ongoing inequalities for incarcerated women. ⁠ ⁠ Weronika Gęsicka (b. 1984, Włocławek, Poland) humorously reimagines fake encyclopaedia entries. Her work spotlights the tensions between truth and invention, leading us to question what is ‘real’? ⁠ ⁠ Amak Mahmoodian (b. 1980, Shiraz, Iran) focuses on the effects of exile on memory and identity. Through collaboration, she imagines a world without borders, one where shared dreams bridge geography, politics and time. ⁠ ⁠ Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) captures intimate moments in a vivid and layered portrait of everyday life. Their work explores how bodies and identities are shaped, and often constrained, by the political forces around them. ⁠ ⁠ @dboersephotographyfoundation @wgesicka @amak_mahmoodian @rene.matic @lebecenlair @blow_up_press @jednostkagallery @brsphotofest @arcadiamissa @ccaberlin ⁠ ⁠ Join Weronika Gęsicka this Saturday 7 March, 11am for the first in our series of shortlisted artist talks! Book now on our website.

Turner Prize 2025 nominee, Rene Matić’s Artist in Profile film released by @tate . Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans across photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as “rude(ness)” - an evidencing and honouring of the in-between. Nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH at CCA Berlin, their artwork questions identity, society and how we find a sense of belonging. Created amid a backdrop of right-wing populism, violence and political hypocrisy, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH explores how, despite this, people can ‘hold on to one another, care for each other, and learn to live with vulnerability,’ as they explain. The Turner Prize 2025 exhibition recently opened at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK.

The winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 is Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) 🎖️! ⁠ ⁠ “Rene’s deeply personal work is rooted in community and belonging – and their power both to heal and bring people together.” – Shoair Mavlian, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery. ⁠ ⁠ Rene’s nominated project, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, explores identity and belonging, subculture, class and family. Their diaristic photography captures everyday moments with tenderness and intimacy in a vivid portrait of contemporary life. ⁠ ⁠ Congratulations to Rene! 🌟🏆 ⁠ ⁠ And to all of this year’s shortlisted artists 👏 @wgesicka @amak_mahmoodian and Jane Evelyn Atwood ⁠ ⁠ @rene.matic @arcadiamissa @ccaberlin ⁠ ⁠ Read more at .uk/DBPFP26 ⁠ ⁠ @dboersephotographyfoundation #DeutscheBorsePhotographyFoundation #DBPFP26

Huge Congratulations to Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) on winning the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026! The exhibition will continue to be on view at The Photographer’s Gallery in London (@thephotographersgallery ) until the 7th of June 2026. Featuring newly produced photographs, installations and sound pieces, Matić was nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, at CCA Berlin. Matić’s diaristic, snapshot-like photography captures everyday moments with poetic intimacy. The images, combined with collected objects, film and sound, form a vivid and layered portrait of contemporary life. Through the layered materials, symbols, and storytelling, the installation considers how intimate connections—often fragile or elusive—can become acts of resistance and form new meaning. It is a great honour to work together with Matić as they continue to contribute to the discourse and reflect on the fractured realities we inhabit through their work. Rene Matić was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 alongside Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, and Amak Mahmoodian. Pictured: Detail, Feelings Wheel, 2024-2025 Installation of glass framed photo series and sound piece, Dimensions variable. ©️Rene Matić. @dboersephotographyfoundation @ccaberlin @jbnnmnn @fabianschoeneich #renematic #renematić

Artist Rene Matić asks: ‘Can an image be heard? How do the records we carry with us — songs, movements, basslines — define us?’ 🎶 In this sculpture, Matić brings together photographs taken across east London, the wider city, Plymouth and Peterborough, evidencing how the love of friends and family is expressed through music and movement. Their photographs trace Black British music as a connective tissue through which communities across Britain gather, remember and move together. Matić assembled these images into the shape of a sound system, a Jamaican cultural legacy brought to the UK through the migration of the Windrush Generation. In this form, the photographs coalesce like sounds echoing from a sound system. @rene.matic @arcadiamissa On display @vam_east until 18 October 2026. Commissioned with the support of The V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project.

If you’ve ever heard of ‘la petite mort’, then perhaps you’re closer to knowing when a work of art is finished than you might think. ⁠ ⁠ In the fifth episode of the ArtReview Podcast, Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) spoke about how they know when a work is *truly* done.⁠ ⁠ Check out their work at the V&A East Museum (@vam_east ) and listen to their episode at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Interviewer: Fi Churchman (@fi_churchman )⁠ Host and producer: Chiara Wilkinson (@chiarawilkinson )⁠ Audio editor: Charlie Duffield

But what are artists *actually* working on? In the fifth episode of the ArtReview Podcast, Rene Matić @rene.matic spoke about their work created for the opening of the new V&A East Museum, now open @vam_east . Listen to it now at the link in bio Interviewer: Fi Churchman @fi_churchman Host and producer: Chiara Wilkinson @chiarawilkinson Audio editor: Charlie Duffield

Opening this week: Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) in The Music is Black: A British Story V&A East Museum, London, UK 18 April 2026 This Saturday marks the first major exhibition at the V&A East Museum (@vam_east ) including a new commission by gallery artist, Rene Matić. The exhibition reveals how Black Music has shaped British culture over the last 125 years - and its impact around the world. Pictured: Detail from Rene Matić HEARD, 2026 Archival print on perspex, wood and electrical cable 281 x 120 x 200 cm (110 5/8 x 47 1/4 x 78 3/4 inches)

In the ArtReview Podcast, artists, thinkers and cultural figures are invited to choose three works as lenses through which to examine their practice and explore critical issues impacting the contemporary art world.⁠ ⁠ In our fifth episode, artist Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) speaks to ArtReview editor Fi Churchman (@fi_churchman ) about polyamory, Shane Meadows’s This Is England and being the youngest nominee ever for the Turner Prize. ⁠ ⁠ Matić will unveil a new work as part of eight creative commissions for the opening of the V&A East Museum (@vam_east ) on 18 April 2026.⁠ ⁠ Listen now at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ Images: ⁠ ©Rene Matić, 2025. Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London.⁠ Still from Rene Matić, Many Rivers, 2022. Courtesy Arcadia Missa⁠ Rene Matić, Aunty Lulu with Ska Nails, 2025. Courtesy the artist⁠

Currently in London: Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 The Photograoher’s Gallery, London, UK 6 March - 7 June 2026 Rene Matić’s presentation for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 (@dboersephotographyfoundation ) is currently on view at The Photographer’s Gallery (@thephotographersgallery ) until the 7th of June 2026. This year, shortlist explores themes of exile and memory; gender inequalities and advocacy; identity and belonging, subculture and class; and the shifting boundaries between photographic fact and fiction. Matić is shortlisted amongst Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, and Amak Mahmoodian. The winner of the prize will be announced on the 14th of May 2026. Pictured: Installation view, Rene Matić, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2026). Photography: Kate Elliott.

In the second part of our interview with DBPFP26 shortlisted artist, Rene Matić touches on the topic of representation and care in their photography. For the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026, Rene (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK) is shortlisted for the exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, at CCA Berlin, Germany in 2024/2025. AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH is rooted in identity and belonging, subculture, class and family. The images, combined with collected objects, film and sound, form a vivid and layered portrait of contemporary life. Join Rene Matić on Thursday 9 April for a special DBPFP26 themed artist talk, where they will discuss the project in more depth. View the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 exhibition now, until 7 June 2026. @rene.matic @dboersephotographyfoundation