About
Madeleine Schwinge is an artist, art researcher, curator, educator, and consultant at the interfaces of art, design, systemic thinking and futures studies with a focus on planetary thinking and socio-cultural shift.
She is the founder of the re:future lab Institute for Art and Future Design, Berlin, and initiator of the HOLITOPIA Festival.
In her artistic work, she uses multimedia and performance to explore the upheavals of our time and their effects on the human psyche and behavior. Her ongoing series ‘The Psychedelic Chicks‘ has been featured in scholarly publications on post-studio art and was nominated for the 2019 Social Art Award.
In 2020 Madeleine Schwinge founded the re:future lab as an extension to her studio practice with the aim to foster debate culture, pollinate hope, and make desirable futures tangible.
Her undisciplined projects overarch exhibition, multidirectional intervention, advisory, lecture and writing, and span the fields of art and culture, academics, business and politics.
With the 'HOLITOPIA Manifesto' (2022), she advocates for a holistic and pragmatic utopia that is co-created by applying five principles of creative intelligence and acting on them in the here and now.
In 2024 she directed the HOLITOPIA Festival for Arts and Futures, which was awarded in the highest category for innovation and international attention by Projekt Zukunft, a program of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises.
She lectures at the HTW University of Applied Sciences in Berlin in the master's program in System Design.