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 ...

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...

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

1/113 Tenant of Culture, Science and Worms Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, 2025

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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, ...

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 Science and Worms February 15 - April 5 2025 Opening: Friday February 21 6-9pm

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) 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.

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.

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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...

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.

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).

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

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.

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 ...

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