Grace Schwindt: When She Moves

Galerie Peter Kilchmann

Rämistrasse 33, Zurich

Galerie Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of German artist Grace Schwindt (born 1979, living and working in London and Sicily) in our space on Rämistrasse in Zurich. Featuring newly conceived bronze and ceramic sculptures, paintings on canvas, and works on paper, Grace weaves a network of forms and creatures - part plant, part human - that permeate the space through gestures of movement and touch. The interaction between the different media generates a multifaceted body of work, where the various components continuously inspire and influence each other. 

The figures are captured in moments of transformation and movement, united by a common denominator; conscious of trauma and injury, they are within deeply anchored and strong. Aspects of the traumatized body are made visible in a fragile and intimate sphere. The underlying tone is one of healing, affirming the indispensable necessity of touch, tenderness, and care, and the belief that loss and injury promise possibilities for transformation, thus embodying a source of strength, renewal, and power. Exploring these forces turns Grace's works into representatives of life, presenting a wide vocabulary of past and present states, drawn from individual and collective memory.

Alongside sculpture, painting, and drawing, the artist, who also strongly emerges from the performing arts andperformance, will have solo exhibitions in 2025 at the Museum M in Leuven and the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden. In addition to her recent solo exhibition Defiant Bodies at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, the artist was invited by Kunsthal Gent for a residency and accompanying solo exhibition in 2022 and participated in the Busan Biennale in South Korea. Further solo exhibitions were held at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2019), Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (2019), Rose Lejeune Gallery, London (2017), Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, Bath (2019), MARCO, Vigo (2016), Tramway, Glasgow (2014), The Showroom, London (2014), Site Gallery, Sheffield (2014), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2014), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2014) and Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2014). Performances were staged at the Volksbühne, Berlin (2019); The Roberts Institute of Art, London (2018); Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam (2017); Kaaitheater, Brussels (2017); Royal Academy of Arts im Rahmen des Block Universe Performance Festival, London (2016); Museum M, Leuven (2018); und South London Gallery, London (2011),. Her work has also been exhibited in group shows at Tate Britain, London (2013); WIELS, Brussels (2014); Imperial War Museum, London (2020); Arko Art Center, Seoul (2017); Garage, Rotterdam (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park und Weserburg Museum, Bremen, and is represented in the permanent collections of Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Teylers Museum (Haarlem), Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre (London) and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Hokuto).