Exhibition Text
Ghostly appearances at Schwerin’s castle and the Kunstverein’s former existence as an electricity factory; looking at the space this way, the air is thin, and charged. Current, currency, and curation are held alongside one another, questioning what it is they have in common. Residual magnetism is left in a core after the field is removed. And a system that “remembers” its previous state and lags.
Molten, the new solo exhibition by Céline Mathieu at Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin, considers what is already there and what is brought in, as a living infrastructure, which can resist, capacitate, and induce. Material from former exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim (NOR) and Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (DE), find their way into this one, daisychaining exhibitions.
Biography
Céline Mathieu (b. 1989, Belgium) is an artist and writer. Her site-and condition-specific practice looks into the circulation of thoughts and materials. The “lived logistics” of life and exhibition making within it. Her installations often combine sound, scent, different materials, and text, laced with soft institutional critique and crossings of intimacy and economy. She had recent solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Gauli Zitter, Brussels, and Sentiment, Zurich.
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