Céline Mathieu (b. 1989, Belgium) is an artist and writer. Her site and condition-specific practice considers material and economic circulation in work that evokes a feeling of falling away. The work is both sensory and conceptual.
She had recent solo exhibitions at PLUS-ONE Gallery (Antwerp), Sentiment (Zürich) and at Gr_und (Berlin). She was part of group exhibitions at Gauli Zitter (Brussels), Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp), Gallery Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), La Virreina (Barcelona), Mu.Zee (Ostend), Corridor and PuntWG (Amsterdam), CLAPTRAP and AAIR (Antwerp).
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.
Her research 'Conditions for Raw Materials' was supported by the Royal Academy Antwerp in 2022-2023 and she will be a resident at Jan Van Eyck Academie Maastricht in 2023-2024. Céline's work was recently featured in Mousse Magazine n° 81
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.
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Clarijs & Céline Mathieu. Development by Elouan Le Bars.
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documentation of works by Chloë Delanghe.