April 27, 2026 - 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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.

June 27, 2021 - Tenant of Culture, Puzzlecut Boot Black, 2021, recycled shoes, handbags and belts, shoe last, glue, thread, 33 x 34 x 15 cm, Photography: Kunst-dokumentation.com

February 17, 2024 - Tenant of Culture looks at the manufacturing of damage through its social, technical and industrial history.

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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...

1/124 Tenant of Culture, L’Invention du Quotidien (The Practice of Everyday Life) Capc, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2025

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, ...

April 23, 2025 - By disassembling and rebuilding manufactured garments, Tenant of Culture examines the ways in which ideological frameworks and power structures materialise in methods of production, circulation and marketing of apparel.

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.

September 8, 2023 - As her new London exhibition opens, Tenant of Culture – aka Hendrickje Schimmel – talks about Rei Kawakubo and the thinking behind her radical, deconstructed textile sculptures

Ehrlich Steinberg is presenting Science and Worms, a solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture, the alias of Amsterdam-based Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel. This exhibition continues the artist's exploration of the lifecycle of fashion objects, focusing on the technology and mechanics of maintenance and care within fashion and institutional archives.

April 15, 2024 - Deconstructing and repurposing discarded materials from the fashion industry into new sculptures, garments and anthropomorphic forms, Tenant of Culture uses the materials and language of fashion and clothing to explore the vast and problematic waste accumulated through the industry’s various stages of production, distribution and consumption.

October 6, 2022 - Deconstructed, reconstructed, bleached, re-dyed, hung, wrung out, stacked; Tenant of Culture – the moniker of Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel – has a way of handling material.

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.

September 14, 2022 - As Tenant of Culture, Schimmel has become known for her sustained exploration of the fashion industry, overproduction, and the intense cyclical nature of trends, with her skilled and materials-driven practice transforming used and discarded garments and accessories into complex, amalgamated sculptures and textiles.

By means of collage, analysis and (de)construction, Tenant of Culture seeks to set the terms of an inclusive understanding of cultural production, in which labour and craft, bodies and warehouses, waste and resources, affect and industry, planned ...