Matthew Monahan | In His Own Words | De Pont Museum 2026

Following two new acquisitions and a generous donation by the artist, De Pont Museum plans to devote space in multiple galleries to sculptures, reliefs and works on paper by Matthew Monahan (1972, Eureka, USA) in autumn 2026. Monahan utilises a wide range of materials in his sculptures and drawings, including aluminium, paper, bronze, plaster, steel, sheet metal and plastic. He manipulates these materials in such a way as to obscure their identities: what seems hard is actually soft and vulnerable, while what seems fragile is in fact rigid and industrial. Signs of an almost alchemical approach to materials go hand in hand with a strong sense of fragmentation.