Coffee to go

Performance presented at Performance Festival Perform now! Winterthur, Switzerland in 2015. After sewing a "trunk" made of lids for coffee-to-go cups the artist wandered around, stared at people, stopped in front of walls and eventually opened the trunk again to throw the lids on the floor. She then disappeared.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Coffee to go, 2025, Performance]

Foto: Wolfgang Probst

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Lunar Litter (Jettison Bag) or Things we left on the moon

Garbage bag, inspired by the so-called “jettison bags” used in space travel. I had two of these bags produced and embroidered with the lettering “lunar litter only.” On May 23, 2023, one bag was sent to the HQ of NASA with the request that it be taken to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission, planned for 2025, to retrieve some of the 190 tons of material left behind by NASA during the Apollo missions.

You find all the objects that were left behind on the moon listed in the "Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon" by NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration here: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/final-catalogue-of-manmade-material-on-the-moon.pdf

I realized the work with the help of my wonderful assistant Joana Bacelar.
Installation view of my exhibition "Instant Paradise" at Villa Dessauer Bamberg (Museen der Stadt Bamberg) in 2023.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Lunar Litter (Jettison Bag), 2023, polyester, embroidery thread, plastic, galvanized metal, 50 x 53 x 98 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel

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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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ARCTIC YOGHURT
Intervention

“On December 2nd, 2021 at 12.04 a.m. I ate a yoghurt and threw the plastic pot into the Ofotfjord (Norway)”

[Swaantje Güntzel, Arctic Yoghurt, 2021, Intervention]

Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe

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Setzkasten XL

Display case filled with toys washed ashore the beaches of Kure and Midway Atoll and swallowed by Laysanalbatrosses. The albatrosses were found with stomachs filled with plastic objects on both atolls (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Setzkasten XL, 2018, plastics, wood, glass, 41, 3x 31,5 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel

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GOLD II

Common packaging for take away menus made of polystyrene covered with gold leaf.

[Swaantje Güntzel, GOLD II, 2020, polystyrene, gold leaf, 20,5 x 25 x 7 cm]

Foto: Tobias Hübel

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PLASTIFIED/Vortex II
Intervention

Marine debris washed ashore the beach of Órzola/Lanzarote was collected and relocated in a natural pool. The artist took a bath in the middle of the debris. Lanzarote/Spain.

[Swaantje Güntzel, PLASTIFIED / Vortex II, 2016, intervention]

Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe

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