Grace Schwindt (*1979 born in Offenbach, Germany; Lives and works 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, refugees 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 (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.
