Artist in profile: Rene Matić
'Born British, die British.'
Published: September 21, 2025
Turner Prize 2025 nominee Rene Matić works primarily with photography as well as sculpture, textiles, sound and other media.
Learn more about Matić and their work on this page – and plan your visit to the Turner Prize 2025.
Nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH at CCA Berlin, Rene Matić works primarily with photography as well as sculpture, textiles, sound and other mediums. 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.
Watch the video below to learn more about Rene Matić and their inspiration.
Rene Matić's inspiration
The Turner Prize 2025 nominated artists have selected literature or music to share that are important them or inspired the works on view
Listen to the playlist below and hear some of the tracks that inspire Rene Matić, and check out their reading list below.
Texts
- Jafari S. Allen – There’s a Disco Ball Between Us
- James Baldwin – Another Country
- Lanre Bakare – We Were There
- Gargi Bhattacharyya, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha – Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State
- Alex Dimitrov – Ecstasy: Poems
- bell hooks – All About Love: New Visions
- Joy James – In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
- Dean Spade – Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together
