ANTWERP.- Upon FOMU’s invitation, visual artist Katja Mater (NL, b. 1979) explores the museum’s collection and creates a remarkable selection around the theme of time. Mater designs unusual frameworks for the collection items and creates spatial installations with them. ​

The exhibition No Longer Not Yet allows you to experience ‘time’ in a variety of ways: from solar time and the rhythm of the body to times of remembrance and asynchronous, cosmic, or even invisible time. ​

Mater frames the works, their (anonymous) makers, and the subjects depicted in the photographs with care and precision. Mater points to elements that are often overlooked or forgotten, such as a message written on the back of a photograph. Meanwhile Mater also creates new works inspired by objects from the museum’s collection, including one of the FOMU collection’s highlights: the restored Kaiserpanorama. ​

Specifically, for the Kaiserpanorama Mater creates 50 new stereo photographs that play with language, spatiality and perception. The Kaiserpanorama is a stereoscopic viewing cabinet from 1905 that introduced mass audiences to a photographic 3D spectacle. Up to 25 persons can take a seat on stools around the viewing cabinet to experience the magic of three-dimensional images. ​

The Kaiserpanorama is set in motion every first Sunday of the month. ​

Collection exhibition with works by: Many anonymous creators and Alphonse Giroux et Cie., Alphonse Van Besten, Amelia Bergner, Antoine Hoorens, August Sander, Cassils, Charles Jean Swolfs, Dominique Somers, Frans Van de Poel, Geert Goiris, George Filleul, Guillaume Weber-Chapuis, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Henry Draper, Jaques Messin, Joseph-Maurice Bourot, Katja Mater, Laure Winants, Lebohang Kganye, Marie-Françoise Plissart, Nick Geboers, Paul Sano, Rik Selleslags, Suzy Embo, Underwood & Underwood en Warren De la Rue.

Katja Mater ​

​Katja Mater is a visual artist, filmmaker, editor and teacher working between Amsterdam and Brussels. Mater’s artistic practice is focused on the boundaries of optical media and combines various disciplines such as photography, film, drawing, performance and installation. Mater investigates aspects that are often beyond the limits of human eyesight, thus offering another view of the world by showing how photography and film, for example, capture things differently from the human eye. Mater plays on notions of time, space and perception. ​

Recent exhibitions include Circulate - Photography Beyond Frames at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2024) and When Things Fall Apart, Manifold Books, Amsterdam (2024); in addition to a solo practice as visual artist, Katja Mater is involved in various collaborative projects, Mater is editor of Girls Like Us Magazine since 2014, and one of the founders of Mothers & Daughters, a lesbian* and trans* bar.