Overview

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.

Selected works
  • Grace Schwindt, Inside a Landscape, 2025
    Inside a Landscape, 2025
  • Grace Schwindt, When You Touch, 2025
    When You Touch, 2025
  • Grace Schwindt, A History of Touch, 2025
    A History of Touch, 2025
  • Grace Schwindt, Aphrodite in Moonlight, 2025
    Aphrodite in Moonlight, 2025
  • Grace Schwindt, Becoming a Flower, 2024
    Becoming a Flower, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Figure at Night, 2024
    Figure at Night, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Blue Shirt, 2024
    Blue Shirt, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Wild Orchid, 2024
    Wild Orchid, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Entangled, 2024
    Entangled, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Dancer, 2024
    Dancer, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Burned, 2024
    Burned, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Touched, 2024
    Touched, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, When a body becomes a Landscape, 2024
    When a body becomes a Landscape, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Above Ground, 2024
    Above Ground, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Curved Shadow, 2024
    Curved Shadow, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Your Movement, 2024
    Your Movement, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Moments in History I, 2024
    Moments in History I, 2024
  • Grace Schwindt, Cattleya Labiata, 2023
    Cattleya Labiata, 2023
  • Grace Schwindt, Angel II, 2023
    Angel II, 2023
  • Grace Schwindt, Butterfly, 2022
    Butterfly, 2022
  • Grace Schwindt, Resting Point, 2022
    Resting Point, 2022
  • Grace Schwindt, Light, 2022
    Light, 2022
  • Grace Schwindt, Arch, 2022
    Arch, 2022
  • Grace Schwindt, Gravity, 2019
    Gravity, 2019
  • Grace Schwindt, Gravity, 2019
    Gravity, 2019
  • Grace Schwindt, Swan, 2018
    Swan, 2018
  • Grace Schwindt, Silent Dance, 2018
    Silent Dance, 2018
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