Event overview
Department of Art Public Talks Programme Spring 2016 welcomes artist Grace Schwindt.
Contemporary Art Talks: Grace Schwindt
Grace Schwindt (born 1979, Germany) is an artist based in London working with film, live performance and sculpture. Her theatrical sets for film works use minimal architectural elements and props to mark a location, in which she places bodies including her own. Using a tightly scripted choreography in which every move relates to institutionalised systems she investigates how social relations and understandings about oneself are formed, often through acts of exclusion and destruction. The artist’s interviews with individuals often serve as a starting point for fictionalised dialogues delivered by performers.
Schwindt has exhibited widely, including recent solo exhibitions at Tramway, Glasgow (2015), Site Gallery, Sheffield (2015), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2015), The Showroom, London (2014), Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2014), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2014), Wiels – Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2012), Void Gallery, Derry (2012), Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2012). She presented live performances at various venues including Museum M, Leuven as part of Playground Festival (2013), South London Gallery, South London Gallery (2011) and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2010), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Collective Gallery (Edinburgh) and White Columns (New York). Upcoming solo exhibitions this year will be presented at Marco – Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo and Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, Bath. Schwindt was shortlisted for the Jarman Film Award and received the Arts Admin Bursary in 2013 and the grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2012. Represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp, her work is distributed by Argos Centre for Media and Art.
Image: 'Pierced Mermaid', Grace Schwindt 2015, Courtesy the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE).
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Feb 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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