August 4, 2025 - HOST: Tenant of Culture presents newly commissioned works by Hendrickje Schimmel alongside a selection of recent works in an installation that explores the tension between seductive, consumer-facing displays and spaces less visible in the fashion industry, such as production factories and ...

Tenant of Culture, the name for Hendrickje Schimmel’s artistic practice, repurposes discarded textiles to create textile assemblages. She deconstructs and reconstructs manufactured garments and debris culled from different stages of the garment ...

April 4, 2025 - Operating under the name Tenant of Culture, she essentially runs the production process in reverse, taking secondhand garments nearing the end of their life cycles and summarily “unmaking” them.

August 7, 2025 - Tenant of Culture, the anonym for Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel, realised an ambitious new site-specific installation for Camden Art Centre, her largest...

Tenant of Culture is the moniker of Hendrickje Schimmel, a Dutch artist working in the space between sculpture and couture. Her objects are assembled with the flying tempo of fashion production, but these garments are clearly not factory made.

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Tenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem) who lives and works in London. Schimmel works in the space between sculpture and couture; her objects are assembled with the flying tempo of fashion production, ...

Interview by Vanessa Thill Tenant of Culture, the creative moniker of Hendrickje Schimmel, is the kind of artist we need today. Raw materials are anathema to her. She’s experimenting with how to di...

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June 27, 2021 - Tenant of Culture, Puzzlecut Boot Miscellaneous, 2021, recycled shoe lining, textile scraps, belt, labels, acrylic paint, padding, shoe last, glue, thread, 51 x 34 x 11 cm

Tenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem, Netherlands), who lives and works in London, UK. The artist’s practice is characterised by a repurposing of discarded materials to birth new forms in a critique ...

April 5, 2025 - Tenant of Culture positions fashion objects between two "end scenarios": the first involves disintegration, where garments are discarded and potentially enter secondary markets before decaying in landfills or burning pits, while the second involves preservation, where garments are carefully ...

September 8, 2023 - Fabricated or “pre-consumer” destruction is the point of tension through which Tenant of Culture continues the exploration of the cognitive dissonance between “the individual relationship that we have with the garments versus the industry in which they are produced.” “I try to really hone in one particular material process and then expand from there,” the artist explains, “looking at certain historical events in relation to that, and then also connecting them to contemporary manufacturing.” By placing contemporary aesthetics – like purposefully destroyed garments which defined last year’s ‘avant apocalypse’ trend à la Balenciaga – within an expansive historical context, Tenant of Culture makes fashion tangible and material, a continuing modality rather than an ephemeral concept.

Tenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem), who lives and works in London. The artist’s most recent solo exhibition IN SITU was held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2023).

March 19, 2025 - Continuing her research and exploration into the lifecycle of fashion objects, Tenant of Culture presents a new series of works focusing on the mechanics and technology of maintenance and care within fashion and institutional archives.

October 6, 2022 - Ahead of a major new installation at London’s Camden Art Centre, we speak to Tenant of Culture, whose art-meets-fashion practice dissects the darker sides of our material world

The word’s origins can be found in the 1970s Italian workerist movement, yet when translated to the language of fashion and applied to the realm of aesthetics, it loses some of its bite. Why? Because it is in fashion’s nature to fetishise: “Fashion instantly mocks sensible inventions in clothing,” writes Anne Hollander, “subjecting them to unfunctional usage as soon as they appear, so they can seem authentically desirable and never merely convenient.”(4) Fashion, in its drive to produce profit, mines culture and aesthetics. Tenant of Culture, in turn, mines fashion, breaking it down, turning it inside out, looking at it anew.

June 4, 2020 - Tenant of Culture deconstructs fashion’s political and social role by analysing the production, distribution and use of products through the lens of philosophy and critical theory, addressing questions of ideology, labour and monetization.

Known as Tenant of Culture, the Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel is no stranger to the intricate cobweb of fashion.

Dutch designer-cum-sculptor Hendrickje Schimmel, crafting under the moniker Tenant of Culture, looks at the manufacturing of damage through its social, technical and industrial history to create an abject yet impartial understanding of fashion, ...