Thomas Swinkels
Thomas Swinkels (b. 1988, NL) lives and works in Berlin. He works with sculpture, photography, and video. His work has been shown at, among others, Stooge (DE), Buzzer Reeves (DE), Hedge House (NL), Billytown (NL), Spirit Shop (PT), Annie Gentils Gallery (BE), P/////AKT (NL), and De Appel (NL). He is co-founder of the artist collective Root Canal and organizes exhibitions, among others at Buzzer Reeves.
safe #7, 2022, Safe 35 × 25 × 25 cm
Thomas considers his work parasitic: it feeds off found objects, low-fi technologies, and stories from his immediate surroundings. This emphasis on locality is both a condition for and an ambition of his work. After graduating in 2015 from AKV|St.Joost in Breda, he continued his practice in a small village in Belgium. From 2017 to 2019, he was a participant in De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Here he met Anders, Frieder and Henna with whom he organizes the artist initiative Root Canal (www.rootcanal.eu). Not tied to a fixed space, they initiated projects in a camper van, Althuis Hofland Gallery (NL), P/////AKT (NL), De Vleeshal (NL) and an attic in Amsterdam-East. His work has been presented at Buzzer Reeves (DE), Billytown (NL), Beelden in Leiden (NL), Spirit shop (PT), Annie Gentils Gallery (BE), P/////AKT (NL), and De Appel (NL), among others.
Thomas Swinkels is supported by Mondriaan Fonds.