MATHILDEJUEL
_Mathilde Juel (1980) is a Danish contemporary artist driven by an untamed vision of what art can become.
Her work lingers at the threshold between creation and creator, transforming the instruments of art into tactile, almost devotional forms.Working across multiple media, she currently gravitates toward glazed clay and sculptural forms. Her practice often pays tribute to the very tools of artistic creation — brushes, pencils, and pastels — elevating them from instruments to subjects in their own right.
Glazed clay/pencil Sculpture/ wood ceramic pastels/cLay as canvas vase
Current Project
Turning clay into canvas intosculpture into vase.About_
Mathilde Juel does not position her work as slogan or manifesto. Yet her practice inevitably inhabits a political dimension. When she monumentalises the tools of art-making — brushes, pencils, pastels — she engages a lineage from which women have historically been excluded or erased. The gesture is quiet, but it is structural: to claim material, space, and scale is to claim authorship.
Her work insists on presence. And in a field where presence has long been unevenly distributed, that insistence is political.CV
2026
Surrrrealität,
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (Group Exhibition) / 25th of February 2026 - approx. late April 2026
2024 - present
Clay, Middelfart, Denmark\
Ongoing presentation of ceramic brushes and sculptural vases
Nordværk, Copenhagen Denmark (Group Exhibition) February
ART Herning, represented by Galleri Jørgen Østergaard, Denmark (Group Exhibition)