Swaantje Güntzel
@swaantje-guentzel.bsky.social
Conceptual artist working on the ecological crises. #plasticcrisis #climatecrisis #spacedebris #solastalgia #arctic #ice #snow
I made this work in 2012. I filled a humming top with plastic objects found in the stomach of one albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian islands). 340 g. Cigarette lighters, plastic fragments, toys and mainly bottle caps.
There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!
There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!
September 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I made this work in 2012. I filled a humming top with plastic objects found in the stomach of one albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian islands). 340 g. Cigarette lighters, plastic fragments, toys and mainly bottle caps.
There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!
There is a reason why the lids no longer come off the bottles!
I can´t believe that I am still doing this sht!
In 2006, which is almost 20 years ago now, I started to work on the #plasticcrisis. This is one of my first works. It is 20 freaking years now and we don´t even know if the final round of the #plastictreaty negotiations will get us anywhere.
In 2006, which is almost 20 years ago now, I started to work on the #plasticcrisis. This is one of my first works. It is 20 freaking years now and we don´t even know if the final round of the #plastictreaty negotiations will get us anywhere.
August 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I can´t believe that I am still doing this sht!
In 2006, which is almost 20 years ago now, I started to work on the #plasticcrisis. This is one of my first works. It is 20 freaking years now and we don´t even know if the final round of the #plastictreaty negotiations will get us anywhere.
In 2006, which is almost 20 years ago now, I started to work on the #plasticcrisis. This is one of my first works. It is 20 freaking years now and we don´t even know if the final round of the #plastictreaty negotiations will get us anywhere.
In my series "Crevasse" I usually remove glaciers from postcards to show the void that their melting causes in the topography and our collective memory. Since the collapse of the Birch #Glacier which buried the village of #Blatten everything changed: I now also remove the villages from the cards.
July 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
HAPPY WORLD OCEAN DAY!
[Swaantje Güntzel, Spring cleaning / Fårö (Sweden), Persona Beach, 2011, intervention]
Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe
Realized during an Artist Residency at #Bergmangårdarna på #Fårö.
#worldoceanday #worldoceanday2025 #marinedebris #plasticcrisis
[Swaantje Güntzel, Spring cleaning / Fårö (Sweden), Persona Beach, 2011, intervention]
Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe
Realized during an Artist Residency at #Bergmangårdarna på #Fårö.
#worldoceanday #worldoceanday2025 #marinedebris #plasticcrisis
June 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
HAPPY WORLD OCEAN DAY!
[Swaantje Güntzel, Spring cleaning / Fårö (Sweden), Persona Beach, 2011, intervention]
Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe
Realized during an Artist Residency at #Bergmangårdarna på #Fårö.
#worldoceanday #worldoceanday2025 #marinedebris #plasticcrisis
[Swaantje Güntzel, Spring cleaning / Fårö (Sweden), Persona Beach, 2011, intervention]
Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe
Realized during an Artist Residency at #Bergmangårdarna på #Fårö.
#worldoceanday #worldoceanday2025 #marinedebris #plasticcrisis
Today is the first WORLD DAY OF GLACIERS
Therefore I will share another work of my series "Crevasse" in which
images of #glaciers found on photographs, postcards etc. were cut out and preserved.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria, ca. 1970s, 2024]
#worlddayofglaciers #climatecrisis
Therefore I will share another work of my series "Crevasse" in which
images of #glaciers found on photographs, postcards etc. were cut out and preserved.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria, ca. 1970s, 2024]
#worlddayofglaciers #climatecrisis
March 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today is the first WORLD DAY OF GLACIERS
Therefore I will share another work of my series "Crevasse" in which
images of #glaciers found on photographs, postcards etc. were cut out and preserved.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria, ca. 1970s, 2024]
#worlddayofglaciers #climatecrisis
Therefore I will share another work of my series "Crevasse" in which
images of #glaciers found on photographs, postcards etc. were cut out and preserved.
[Swaantje Güntzel, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria, ca. 1970s, 2024]
#worlddayofglaciers #climatecrisis
Happy International Women's Day!
[Swaantje Güntzel, Sprühflasche, 2022, Model: Joana Bacelar, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]
[Swaantje Güntzel, Sprühflasche, 2022, Model: Joana Bacelar, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]
March 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Happy International Women's Day!
[Swaantje Güntzel, Sprühflasche, 2022, Model: Joana Bacelar, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]
[Swaantje Güntzel, Sprühflasche, 2022, Model: Joana Bacelar, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]
Freue mich sehr, dass meine Arbeit "Setzkasten XL, 2018", [Setzkasten, befüllt mit Spielzeugen, die aus den Mägen verendeter Albatrosse und den Stränden von #KureAtoll stammen] als Anschauungsbeispiel für die Vermittlung der #Plastikkrise in diesem Reclamheft von @ssusteck.bsky.social gelandet ist.
February 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Freue mich sehr, dass meine Arbeit "Setzkasten XL, 2018", [Setzkasten, befüllt mit Spielzeugen, die aus den Mägen verendeter Albatrosse und den Stränden von #KureAtoll stammen] als Anschauungsbeispiel für die Vermittlung der #Plastikkrise in diesem Reclamheft von @ssusteck.bsky.social gelandet ist.
Die Ausstellung "Unendlichkeit-Leere-Lebendigkeit" im #PlanetariumHamburg ist noch bis zum 31.5.25 zu sehen. Die Unendlichkeit des Raums aus der Perspektive von Mathematik, Physik und Kunst. Ein Projekt der @jungeakademie.bsky.social Design: @spiritandbones.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Die Ausstellung "Unendlichkeit-Leere-Lebendigkeit" im #PlanetariumHamburg ist noch bis zum 31.5.25 zu sehen. Die Unendlichkeit des Raums aus der Perspektive von Mathematik, Physik und Kunst. Ein Projekt der @jungeakademie.bsky.social Design: @spiritandbones.bsky.social