# Matilda Kästel — matildakastel.com

Matilda Kästel (b. 1984) is a Swedish glass artist based in Stockholm, Sweden.

## About
MFA from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, 2013. Works with glass and mixed media — exploring the paradox of glass as a material: hard but fragile, beautiful but potentially dangerous. Member of feminist glass collective BOOM!

## Works / Series
- Biotopes — glass and mixed media installations
- Sanctuary — cast glass objects
- The Lonely Body — glass sculpture series exploring longing and intimacy
- Look Me in the Eye — glass eye sculptures
- Desirable Objects — glass objects combining beauty and danger
- Endo — cast glass teeth sculptures with brass fittings
- Possession — glass sculpture series
- Fiona is Dead — glass and mixed media
- Man vs Beast — glass objects
- Views of Coercion — feminist glass art exploring female stereotypes

## Exhibitions (selected)
- Insidor, Blås & Knåda, Stockholm, 2025
- Körper Geist, Osby Konsthall, 2023
- Generation Why, Rundetaarn, Copenhagen, 2024
- Autonomous Zones, BWA Wroclaw, 2022-2023
- Förkroppsligat, Nationalmuseum Design, 2016-2017
- Glass is Tomorrow, Nationalmuseum Design, 2015
- BODYTALK, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium, 2014-2015

## Collections
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
- Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
- Statens Konstråd (Public Art Agency Sweden)
- Pilchuck Glass School Permanent Collection

## Awards
- Design S Award, Konsthantverk & Hantverk, 2018
- Konstnärsnämnden grant 2020-2022
- Stockholms Stads ateljéstipendium 2017-2022
- Pilchuck Glass School EAiR residency, 2015

## Contact
Email: matilda.kastel@gmail.com
Instagram: @matildakastel
Shop: konsthantverkarna.se
Website: matildakastel.com