Céline Mathieu
°1989, Brussels (BE) – lives and works in Brussels (BE)
Céline Mathieu is an artist and writer. Her practice is often site and condition specific, using sound, scent, sculpture, performance, text and different materials in performative installations. The work is both sensory and conceptual. Her work looks into the circulation of thoughts and materials. Material and economic cycles merge with hyper-personal items, resulting in fluid work that cannot quite be pinned down.
Céline Mathieu’s research Conditions for Raw Materials considers how to make exhibitions without being left with storage after the show. She looks into the subjectivity of value; how value and worth shift depending on context, sometimes pulling her own economic working conditions into the work. Lastly, the research considers the place of text as a speculative and archival tool, hoping to store the invisible labour and the layered experience of exhibition viewing in a more meaningful way.
(Courtesy of Jester)

Céline Mathieu had recent solo exhibitions at PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp; Sentiment, Zurich; and Gr_und, Berlin. In 2025 she will have solo exhibitions at Gauli Zitter, Brussels; Kunsthalle Trondheim; and a commission at Celador, Brussels; alongside a duo exhibition at Jester, Genk. She was part of group exhibitions at Fondation CAB, Brussels; Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp; Galerie Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; La Virreina, Barcelona; Mu.Zee, Ostend; Corridor, Amsterdam; and AAIR, Antwerp. Her sound work was recently aired on Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Retreat Radio (Malmö) and on Montez Press Radio (New York/London).
With her duo CMMC she presented at Museum M, Leuven; SMAK, Ghent; M HKA, Antwerp; and they had a solo exhibition at IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen.
You can discover more of Céline Mathieu’s work on her website.