Matilda Skelton Mace is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist & DJ with over a decade of experience creating installations and immersive works across physical and digital media, as well as dressing spaces, from design to production, fabrication and maintenance.
She works primarily with light as a medium, through sculpture, projection and installation, exploring the nature of perception and taking inspiration from natural and geological forms and juxtaposing them with simple and complex geometry, often inspired by the harshness of human and mechanical intervention on landscapes.
She is drawn to alternative exhibition spaces: past installations span nightclubs and cathedrals, warehouses and forests, and is particularly interested in alternative ways of lighting club spaces, escaping the cold, mechanical strictures of stage lighting & programming, instead exploring organic and evolving motion using bespoke geometric forms.
A graduate of the MA Computational Arts course at Goldsmiths, she designs installations and spaces with multisensory rave spa collective Overflow and is a resident DJ with off-location Berlin rave collective Power Play, upending expectations of the club experience across Berlin, London and beyond with idiosyncratic themes and emergency bananas.
She has worked with Max Factor, Gottwood festival and Zeiss Planetarium, as well as developing commissioned online work 'Sky Island' after being selected as recipient of the Aspen Online Art Award 2016. In 2019 she exhibited 'Earth Module' alongside Luke Jerram’s 'Museum of the Moon' at Sherborne Abbey and Nothe Fort, as part of Dorset Moon’s ‘Under the Moon’ programme, produced by Activate Performing Arts, b-side and Bournemouth Arts by the Sea festival.
Press /
- BBC Inside Out South West: Earth Module installation featured as part of coverage of the Dorset Moon events.
- Crack Magazine: 'Daphni, Shanti Celeste and Pearson Sound to play fundraiser for mental health charity Mind'
- The Guardian: DIY London: Partying on the Periphery
- Radar Radio: 'NKC fills dancefloors for a reason' [illustration]
- Contemporary Art Society: 'Winner of the Aspen Online Art Award creates a virtual world from the unique digital fingerprints of users'
- Mixmag: 'Universe Of Tang is the collective throwing far-out parties in London'
- Hyponik: 'White Material’s Young Male Headlines New Audio Visual Series'
- Inverted Audio: ‘Eyes Inverted in Endless Audio’
- i-D: 'the future of computer art with test signal'
Email /
Website design by Barney Gale and Matilda Skelton Mace.
Selected exhibitions & events /
2025 / | |
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January 2025 | Taranau, Zur Klappe, Berlin. |
2024 / | |
December 2024 | Everything is True with Objekt and Call Super, Backsteinboot, Berlin. |
October 2024 | Overflow Studio launch, Berlin. |
October 2024 | Power Play: Ancient Biotech, Berlin. |
September 2024 | Hissy Fit, Zur Klappe, Berlin. |
August 2024 | Power Play: Secret Sunday rooftop, Berlin. |
June 2024 | Power Play at Saüle, Berghain, Berlin. |
May 2024 | Space Jam at Zeiss Planetarium, Berlin. |
April 2024 | Powernap, Kwia, Berlin. |
April 2024 | Dixiplay, Hanover. |
March 2024 | Power Play: Wheel of Fortune with Djrum, Berlin. |
2023 / | |
December 2023 | Overflow, Mahalla, Berlin. |
October 2023 | Overflow, Mahalla, Berlin. |
October 2023 | Power Play: Basement of Eden with Ateq and Bitter Babe, Berlin. |
June 2023 | Power Play, Berlin. |
May 2023 | Power Play May Day, Berlin. |
2022 / | |
August 2022 | Power Play: Big Garten Energy, Berlin. |
June 2022 | Power Play: Hard Fun Summer, Berlin. |
2020 / | |
November 2020 | Krake Festival, online. |
March 2020 | 5 Years of Timedance, Village Underground, London. |
2019 / | |
October 2019 | Dialogue x Creature Comforts, Venue MOT Unit 18, London. |
August 2019 | Killekill Summer Camp: FOLD x Universe of Tang, Berlin. |
July 2019 | Dorset Moon at Nothe Fort, Dorset. |
July 2019 | Dorset Moon at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. |
May 2019 | Queen's Yard Summer Party, Hackney Wick, London. |
April 2019 | Killekill Ghetto House Special with Universe of Tang, Griessmuehle, Berlin |
March 2019 | Strangelove Festival, the Quarterhouse, Folkestone. |
January 2019 | Edited x Amoenus: Futureshook, Aures London. |
2018 / | |
December 2018 | Dialogue with LOFT, re:ni, Astryd, Bristol. |
November 2018 | Spa Day with Andy Blake, Grow Tottenham, London. |
November 2018 | Poly & Percolate: Dance For Mind, Hangar, London. |
November 2018 | Killekill: DJ Flush's Birthday with DJ Stingray & Universe of Tang, Griessmuehle, Berlin, Germany. |
September 2018 | INVE$TANG, London. |
August 2018 | Killekill Summer Camp with Universe of Tang, Griessmuehle, Berlin, Germany. |
May 2018 | EMERGENCY TANG, London. |
April 2018 | ETS: Depot, The Cause, London. |
April 2018 | Edited presents: Radiophonic with Samuel Kerridge + Many More, The Cause, London. |
January 2018 | Dialogue x Tang, Bristol. |
Older / | |
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November 2017 | T A N G L A P S E, London. |
September 2017 | Clinic //2 @ Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London. |
July 2017 | Even the Strong #6 @ The Flying Dutchman, London |
October 2016 | Make Me with Regis, Abdullah Rashim, Dr Rubinstein & Universe of Tang, Corsica Studios, London. |
August 2016 | HOME with Margaret Dygas, Barac, Binh, The Old Baths, London. |
June 2016 | Gottwood festival, Anglesey, Wales. |
May 2016 | HOME with Raresh, Praslea, Fumiya Tanaka, Studio338, London. |
May 2016 | Recipient of the Aspen Online Art Award, 2016 |
April 2016 | Meat Free presents 20 Years of Blueprint Records w/ James Ruskin, Luke Slater, Helena Hauff, Mantra Warehouse, Manchester. |
February 2016 | Inverted Audio x 45ACP, Bussey Building, Peckham, London. |
November 2015 | Inverted Audio x Young Male @ Bussey Building, Peckham, London. |
September 2015 | Exception, St James Hatcham Church, New Cross, London. |
August 2015 | Shortlisted for the HIX award 2015, exhibition at CNB Gallery, Shoreditch, London. |
August 2015 | LOST festival, secret woodland location, UK. |
October 2014 | LOST teaser [chapter I], Hoxton Basement, London. |
September 2014 | Test Signal, Hotel Elephant Gallery, London SE1. |
September 2014 | Future Graphics, part of the London Design Festival at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. |
April 2014 | The Photocopy Club, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin, Germany. |
July 2013 | Squieze, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Central London. |
October 2012 | Unfamiliar Ground, Russian Frost Farmers Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. |
Education /
2015 | Graduated MA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, London |
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2013 | Graduated BA Fine Art: New Media, Winchester School of Art. |
2012 | Semester spent at ENSBA (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts), Paris with the Erasmus exchange programme |
2010/11 | HND Art and Design Foundation, Arts University Bournemouth. |