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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...

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.

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 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 ...

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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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.

April 6, 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.

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 ...

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

December 4, 2025 - Ehrlich Steinberg is pleased to present Science and Worms, a solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture, the moniker of Amsterdam-based Dutch artist Hendrickje Schimmel.

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, ...

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.

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), who lives and works in London. The artist’s most recent solo exhibition IN SITU was held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2023).

Publisher: Soft OpeningYear: 2021Format: SoftcoverEdition: SecondCondition: NewTenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem, Netherlands), who lives and works in London, UK.

October 8, 2020 - Practical, emotional, psychological, cultural, or societal, the signs and symbols embedded within the fabrics, that shroud our form, give clues about us that far surpass any other everyday practice we engage in. This week I spoke with Hendrickje Schimmel, an artist who works under the moniker Tenant of Culture.

Together with Mateusz Szymanówka, he runs the performative and discursive program To Be Real, which examines the relationship between contemporary performance and club culture. Since 2022, he has been co-creating Kem School - a program of joint learning through experiments and reflection on social choreography, performance and methods of queer and feminist activities.