Cutting Stock: Tenant of culture

Tenant of Culture Flash s/s (Series), 2020 Recycled garments, thread, paint, steel. Courtesy the artist and Soft Opening, London Photography Theo Christelis.

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PEANA is excited to announce its participation in Condo Mexico City 2024, hosting Soft Opening, London with a solo exhibition by Tenant of Culture. Condo is a large-scale collaborative exhibition of international galleries founded by Vanessa Carlos in 2016. The initiative encourages the evaluation of existing models, pooling resources and acting communally to propose an environment that is more conducive for experimental gallery exhibitions to take place internationally. For its 2024 edition, 40 galleries will collaboratively exhibit across 20 Mexico City Spaces.

Consult the map with participating galleries here.

By disassembling and rebuilding manufactured garments, Tenant of Culture examines where ideological, political or cultural perspectives materialize in the production and marketing of apparel. The artist seeks materials sourced from various stages of the garment cycle that relate to recent trends in fashion and their socio-political histories. The mutated former wearables exist between sculpture and product, strangely familiar to everyday articles of dress. The presentation examines the strategic codification of visual languages and techniques in luxury commodity production that obscure or expose dynamics of power, domination and assertion of class via a constant re-/de- valuation of goods.

Tenant of Culture is the artistic practice of Hendrickje Schimmel (b. 1990, Arnhem), who lives and works in Amsterdam. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Ladder at Soft Opening, London (2023); IN SITU at Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2023); Good Signal at Duarte Sequeira, Braga (2023) and Soft Acid at Camden Art Centre, London (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Insides Out at Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen (2023); British Textile Biennial, Blackburn (2023); Beautiful Repair at Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2023); Post-digital Intimacy at the National Gallery Prague, Prague (2022); Eternally Yours at Somerset House, London (2022) and Testament at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London (2022). The work of Tenant of Culture is in the collections of the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney. In 2020 Soft Opening published the artist’s first monograph in collaboration with Charles Asprey which was one of the winners of the Swiss Most Beautiful Books Award.