Grace Schwindt (*1979 b. in Germany; Lives and works in London and Sicily) works with sculpture, performance, drawing and film. Through her work she unfolds visual narratives that explore the effects of capitalist culture on the body and psyche of the individual. She analyses the role that bodies, language and objects play in the construction of history and memory.
Grace Schwindt's process often originates from specific research and conversations with a wide range of people, including activists, artists, musicians, politicians and her own relatives. Many of her works examine aspects of historical events with an emphasis on social relations. The different media employed are connected and intertwined, shapes from costumes reappearing in drawings while sculptures echo performative gestures.
The artists has had solo exhibitions at Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (St. Gallen), Kunsthal Gent (Ghent), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose (Amsterdam), Rose Lejeune Gallery (London), Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts (Bath), MARCO - Museum of Contemporary Arts (Vigo), Tramway (Glasgow), The Showroom (London), Site Gallery (Sheffield), Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Eastside Projects (Birmingham) and White Columns Gallery (New York City), Wiels (Brussels), Collective Gallery (Edinburgh) and Void (Derry).
Live performances have been presented at Volksbühne (Berlin) and Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (St. Gallen), Robert Institute of Arts (London), Frascati Theatre (Amsterdam), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Royal Academy of Arts (London), Museum M (Leuven), Amsterdam Kunstverein (Amsterdam) and South London Gallery (London) and Institute of Contemporary Arts (London).
Grace Schwindt has participated in the Busan Biennale (2022), the Anren Biennale (2017) and the Istanbul Biennial (2015). Her work has featured in group shows at Tate Britain (London), WIELS (Brussels), Imperial War Museum (London), Arko Art Center (Seoul), Garage (Rotterdam), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Wakefield), CondeDuque Cultural Center, (Madrid), El Carmen Cultural Center (Valencia), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam (Havana), Mullae Art Factory, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (Seoul) and Weserburg Museum (Bremen) among others.
Her works are included in the following public collections: Arts Council Collection, UK, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland and Teylers Museum, Harlem, The Netherlands.
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Exhibition Walkthrough with artist Grace Schwindt and curator Dorothea Strauss
Saturday June 8, 12pm to 1pm - Rämistrasse 33, Zurich - ZURICH ART WEEKEND May 6, 2024Artist Grace Schwindt and Curator Dorothea Strauss will guide us through the gallery, unveiling Schwindt's hybrid forms and creatures while sharing insights into using tenderness...Read more -
ZURICH ART WEEKEND 2024
We are pleased to confirm our participation in Zurich Art Weekend 2024, from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th of June! May 6, 2024Join us in celebrating Zurich’s contemporary art scene as the city transforms into an unmissable discovery platform. We will be showing two solo shows of...Read more
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Art MonthlyFebruary 1, 2023 -
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ArtlineDecember 27, 2022 -
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Texte zu KunstDecember 1, 2022 -
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KunstbulletinNovember 1, 2022 -
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St. Galler TagblattOctober 1, 2022 -
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FriezeDecember 1, 2019 -
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Art MonthlyMarch 1, 2015 -
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Aesthetica MagazinFebruary 1, 2015 -
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Sleek MagazinOctober 15, 2014 -
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Mousse MagazinJuly 9, 2014