Meet us at POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair, Galerie Holthoff (Hamburg), Booth B 27. Still running until Sunday (September 14th)!

[Swaantje Güntzel, stomach contents XXL, 2014, metal, plastics, height: 145 cm. Vending machine filled with toys ingested by laysan albatrosses in the Pacific Ocean. Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy. Foto: Alexander Burzik].

[Swaantje Güntzel, Crevasse / Brixdalsbreen, Norway, ca. 1970, 2022, cropped postcard, 33.4 x 22.8 cm. The images of glaciers found on photographs, postcards, CdV, maps etc. were cut out and preserved. Foto: Tobias Hübel]

[Swaantje Güntzel, Anna, carrying plastic wrapped fruits, 2019, Diasec, 100 x 67,7 cm, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]

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The UN Plastic Treaty negotiations in Geneva 2025 have failed.
This is devestating news.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Seestück I (Seascape I) / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum, 2020, Diasec, 80 x 120 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

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#conceptualart #contemporaryart #art #plasticcrisis #henriettepogoda #singleuseplastic #seascape #nordfrieslandmuseum #husum #northsea #karlrohwedderruge

MICROPLASTICS II / Portrait

Portrait of the artist covered with microplastic particles that she had collected in the frame of an intervention ("Microplastics") realized in 2016. During three hours she sat at Playa de Montaña Bermeja/Lanzarote and cleared 1 squaremeter of microplastics. 1370 pieces were counted.

The work was later used in the campaign "In your face" by Ocean. Now! -> https://ocean-now.org/inyourface/

..and was just recently featured in the scientific paper "Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art" by Silvia Kurr as a case study (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1474/1/012018

[Swaantje Güntzel, Microplastics II, 2016, Diasec, 120 x 80 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

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JOANA / ingested, 2019

Portrait of the artists assistant “throwing up” plastic fragments that were found in the bolus of an albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, JOANA / ingested, 2019, Diasec, 112 x 80 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda
Model: Joana Bacelar

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PORTRAIT / NSW Australia 2020

Portrait of the artist getting covered with ashes and charcoal collected after the devastating bushfires in New South Wales/Australia in 2020.

Realized with the help of my Australian artists friends Sue McCauley and Michael Buckley!

Foto: Henriette Pogoda
Assistance: Joana Bacelar

[Swaantje Güntzel, PORTRAIT / NSW Australia 2020, 2020, Diasec, 120 x 80 cm]

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SEASCAPE I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum

This is the first work I produced within my ongoing series "SEASCAPES" in 2020.

Portrait staged in front of a seascape without title by Karl Rohwedder-Ruge (1865-1940), dated on the first third of the 20th century. The painting is part of the collection of Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum. The artist is surrounded by single use plastic items typically found in public space.

[Swaantje Güntzel, SEESTÜCK I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum, 2020, Diasec, 80 x 120 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

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SEASCAPE IV / Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr

Production in front of the work “Harbor Entrance” (1916) by Erich Heckel (1883–1970). The work was realized in the painting depot of Museum Kunst der Westküste (Föhr). The artist holds a 100-pound US aerial bomb under her arm which was recovered from the North Sea. The work is part of the artist´s ongoing series "Seascapes".

In the German North and Baltic Seas, there are contaminated sites of about 1.6 million tons of conventional munitions and 5,000 tons of chemical warfare agents dumped during World War II by military operations or afterwards by dumping (source: Federal Environment Agency Germany).

Realized with the help of SeaTerra GmbH.

[Swaantje Güntzel, SEESTÜCK IV / Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, 2024, Diasec, 80 × 120 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda
Assistance: Joana Bacelar

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Anna, carrying plastic wrapped fruit, 2019

[Swaantje Güntzel, Anna, carrying plastic wrapped fruit, 2019,
Diasec, 70 x 47 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda
Model: Anna Angelina Wolfers
Hair & Makeup: Claudia Wegener-Bracht

#art #kunst #contemporaryart #zeitgenössischekunst #photography #fruits #conceptualart #fotografie #annaangelinawolfers #henriettepogoda #claudiawegenerbracht #konzeptkunst #reddress #obst #früchte #plastikverpackung #waste #müll #womensart #womenartist #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel

Work of the Week
MICROPLASTICS III / Discofish

Plaice (pleuronectes platessa) covered with glitter particles extracted from beauty products.

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

[Swaantje Güntzel, MICROPLASTICS III / Discofish, 2016, Diasec, 66,7 x 100 cm]

#art #contemporaryart #conceptualart #konzeptkunst #kunst #zeitgenössischekunst #mikroplastik #microplastic #scholle #plaice #photography #fotografie #plasticcrisis #beautyproducts #marinedebris #henriettepogoda