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 disperse her authorship, becoming more collaborative in her making practice, ...

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 represented by Soft Opening.

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 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 ...

February 17, 2024 - Working under the moniker Tenant of Culture, an idiom she first came across in Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, she maintains such an allegory.

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

April 4, 2025 - Ultimately, she explained, she ... adopted the name Tenant of Culture as a reference to The Practice of Everyday Life, a 1974 text by the late French scholar Michel de Certeau....

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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.

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...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

1/124 Tenant of Culture, Science and Worms Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, 2025

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.

April 16, 2025 - Hendrickje Schimmel calls her practice ... Rather than suggesting a master artisan, Tenant of Culture brings to mind someone who merely rents their art....

Contemporary Art Library includes documentation of 13 projects including Tenant of Culture from as early as 2019.