Céline Mathieu (b. 1989, Belgium) is an artist and writer. Her site- and condition-specific practice looks into the circulation of thoughts and materials, and the “lived logistics” of life and exhibition making. Her installations often combine sound, scent, different types of materials, and text, laced with soft institutional critique and crossings of intimacy and economy. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin; Kunsthall Trondheim; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Gauli Zitter, Brussels; and Sentiment, Zurich. Her writing has appeared in Bricks From The Kiln, Viscose Journal, McGuffin Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, Conceptual Fine Arts, and her novella Mouthful was published by Entr’acte (2021).
Her sound work was recently aired on NTS (London), Cashmere Radio (Berlin), Retreat Radio (Malmö) and on Montez Press Radio (New York/London). The album ‘Rabid’ with JAUME (collaboration with Levi Lanser) was released with Futura Resistenza. With her duo CMMC, she presented at Museum M, Leuven; 019/SMAK, Publiek Park Ghent; M HKA Lodgers, Antwerp, and they had a solo exhibition at IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen.
She was a former participant of the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Since 2025, Céline's research Conditions for Raw Materials is taking the shape of a Doctorate (PD) with MERIAN (Jan Van Eyck Academie, Hogeschool and Universiteit Zuyd). Céline works with Gauli Zitter, Brussels.
Sound and scent, often in combination have become a crucial part of the practice. Music by Levi Lanser, voice text and edits by Céline Mathieu. Listen by clicking the titles below.
In collaboration with Myrthe van der Mark, her artist duo CMMC performs rapidly altering emotions, text and long stretches of synchronised gestures. Over the seven years of their collaboration the practice has evolved to a series often thick and meta, conceptual replies to the invitations they receive.
CMMC performed and presented at IKOB Eupen (2022), Berlin Art Week (2021), Publiek Park Ghent (2021), KIOSK Ghent (2021), MHKA Lodgers Antwerp (2020), Museum M Leuven (2019), Trampoline gallery (/'haɪə en (nʊ)/, 2018), invited by Castlefield Gallery (Manchester, Performance Program, 2017), at off-fairs Poppositions (Brussels, 2015 & 2016), P/ART (Hamburg, 2015), Wo Meine Sonne Scheint (Rotterdam, 2014).
Her writing — from fiction to writings on art — has been published online and in magazines: Conceptual Fine Arts, Arts of The Working Class, VICE, H ART magazine, O Fluxo, Art Viewer, Statorec US, Echo Gone Wrong Baltic Art Press, 'The Yellowpress Periodical' of St Lucas Antwerp, Tubelight magazine #107, a.o.
'S Deeper', published on Statorec.org — American website for young fiction (2019)
Artistic/curatorial practices she has written about include that of: Hélène Fauquet, Henrik Potter, Justine Neuberger, William Ludwig Lutgens, Natasja Mabesoone, Maika Garnica, Ersan Montag, Touche—Touche, Charles Benjamin, Paul Ferens, Simon Brossard & Julie Villard, Leo Luccioni, Lionel Jadot, Keto Logua, Ben Cain, Jort van der Laan, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Müge Yulmaz, Toon Fibbe, Laura Wiedijk, Arvydas Umbrasas, Sarah Jane Hoffmann, Aljaz Celarc, Tom Poelmans, Nadia Naveau, Michele Matyn, Nick Andrews, Bart Stolle, Karina Beumer, Geoffrey de Beer, Ruth Van Haren Noman, Remi Tamburini, Thomas Caron, Thomas Min, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Eva Donckers, Jeroen Bocken, Margarita Maximova, Stef Van Looveren, Illias Teirlinck, Rein De Wilde, Catherine Lemblé, Eva Donckers, Aurélie Bayad, Alison Yip, Rosie Heinrich, among others.