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Dr Mathieu Copeland

Senior Lecturer

A curator, lecturer and publisher, Mathieu Copeland develops a curatorial praxis that seeks to subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and renew our perceptions of them. He is Senior Lecturer at in the Leeds School of Art at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Copeland co-curated the exhibition VOIDS. A Retrospective at the Centre Pompidou—Paris and the Kunsthalle—Bern (2009), and co-edited the celebrated anthology VOIDS. Among many others, he curated A Choreographed Exhibition at the Kunsthalle St Gallen (2007), Soundtrack for an Exhibition (2006), Alan Vega (2009) and Gustav Metzger (2013) at the Musée d’Art Contemporain-Lyon or again A Mental Mandala at MUAC—Mexico City (2013). He initiated and curated the series EAC (2004-06), A Spoken Word Exhibitions (2007-), Reprise (2011-) and the Exhibitions to Hear Read (2010-, presented in 2013 at MoMA-New York).

Recent exhibitions include A Retrospective of Closed Exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Fribourg (2016), The Exhibition of a Dream at the Gulbenkian Foundation (2017), A Staged Exhibition at La Ferme du Buisson (2021), Exhibition Cuttings at the Hermès Foundation in Tokyo (2021) and the retrospectives Robert Barry: A Situation at Circuit–Contemporary Art Centre Lausanne (2022) and the Venet Foundation (2023).

Curator-at-Large at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2020-21), Copeland was guest curator for the 9th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyon (2007), invited guest Curator at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2012-13), and together with artist Philippe Decrauzat, guest curator at Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France Paris (2014-15).

Copeland was lecturer and researcher in the MA Fine Arts at Geneva’s HEAD-University for the Arts (2010-18), lecturer in the Painting department HEAD’s BA Fine Arts (2012-14), co-coordinator of the MA Fine Arts at HEAD (2014-15), and lecturer in the MA Fine Arts at Zurich’s ZHDK-University of the Arts (2018-19). He has taught and lectured in over 40 universities and art schools internationally. He was conferred a PhD from Kingston University London.

Copeland directed in 2015 “The exhibition of a film” – an exhibition as a feature film for cinemas, and edited over 25 books including “Choreographing Exhibitions” (Les Presses du Réel, 2013), “The Anti-Museum” (König Books, 2017), and the anthology of Gustav Metzger’s writings (JRP Editions, 2019). He lately edited “Philippe Decrauzat—Delay” (Verlag König, 2022) and “Phill Niblock–Nothing but working” (Verlag König, 2023).

Current Teaching

Mathieu Copeland teaches in the Fine Art Department at Leeds School of Arts for undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral students.

Research Interests

Mathieu Copeland’s work deconstructs the normative acceptations of what exhibitions, and catalogues, can be. In addressing their inherent materiality, he challenges the tacitly accepted theories of what 'to curate' is. A curator is in turn and simultaneously a playwright, a choreographer, a filmmaker, a writer, an historian, (…). A curator assumes their voice, as they build a repertoire.

Copeland’s research encompasses curating, radical museology, experimental exhibitions, void(s), art and ecology, activism as art, performance in museums, sound art, choreographing exhibitions, and film(ed) exhibition.