This is a selected list of exhibitions that Eloise Sweetman has been invited to curate
As a curator, Eloise Sweetman is interested in how artists engage with their material, how artworks can be modified, and how they enter daily life. In her exhibition at Museum Cobra, 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘬𝘦𝘯. 𝘊𝘰𝘣𝘳𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 is an interesting example of how the Cobra artists took the opportunity to do the same with commercial textiles in the 1950s
Like a sunset, the exhibition Every Flower Seems To Burn By Itself momentarily suspends time. Each artwork slowly burns and blossoms in its own heat like Woolf’s flowers: vibrant, full and lingering before disappearing into the rhythms of daily life once more. By curating artworks by (in order of appearance) Maaike Schoorel, Tanatachi Bandasak, Marlie Mul, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Elif Satanaya Özbay and Damon Zucconi, the exhibition aims to evoke the sensation of time stretching out, pulling your viewing experience along, like spun sugar candy elongating into delicate, airy threads.
Curated for Shimmer in the context of NADA and The Community, the exhibition brought together Joy Episalla, Jason Hendrik Hansma, and Elif Satanya Özbay through works that approached memory materially and emotionally.
In 2024, Eloise Sweetman, as Shimmer, curated a presentation of three works by Hong Kong-based artist Lee Kit at SYSTEMA in Marseille, France. Kit’s paintings and installations layered projector light, text, and found materials—including containers, plastic bags, T-shirts, and printouts—to create atmospheric experiences that shifted between foreground and background. His work deeply influenced her curatorial practice through its precision with shadows, spontaneity, reflexivity, and openness to response.
Full-bodied (hum) is Gwenneth Boelens’s latest exhibition at Klemm’s in Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with curator Eloise Sweetman. Running from 18 June to 20 August 2022, the exhibition transforms the gallery space into a corporeal entity, using the building as a musical instrument. Inspired by Ayurvedic medicine and her embodied art-making experiences, Boelens crafts new pieces from materials like brass, flax, clay, and copper. In line with feminist minimalist sculpture traditions, Boelens’ works take on forms—thyroid, vessel, neck, drum, shell, shield, cymbal, nervous system—that suggest how these shapes envelop what is vital for bodily sustenance, maintaining fluidity and breath.
A gentle assembly of textile, sound, and video, Yindjibarndi artist Katie West’s immersive exhibition invites us to reconsider our relationship with the natural environment and each other. We Hold You Close offers a space of quiet contemplation in which visitors can rest, listen and make by hand. Visitors are invited to sit, sip a cup of tea and join in the making of hand-twisted string from repurposed fabric. Over the course of the exhibition, the string becomes an ever-expanding support structure made by everyone who has visited. We Hold You Close: song for material intimacy is curated by Eloise Sweetman
Located in an old yarn factory in the French countryside, This Dusk Song is an exhibition of architectural, material, and elemental intimacy found in the work of Dutch artist Gwenneth Boelens. Together, Boelens and curator Eloise Sweetman gently bring that intimacy to the audience of Treignac Projet and its surroundings.
Curated by Eloise Sweetman and Suzanne Wallinga, Lexicon of Infinite Movement is the first museum solo exhibition of Charlotte Posenenske (b. Wiesbaden, 1930 – d. Frankfurt am Main, 1985) in the Netherlands and includes commissioned artworks by Ruth Buchanan and Yeb Wiersma. Charlotte Posenenske is one of the most important German minimalists. Posenenske has a clear artistic vision for society—one that she believes must be rational, concrete, accessible, and economical. Her factory-produced sculptural works consist of series in unlimited editions, made from inexpensive, readily available materials like cardboard and sheet metal.
Delirium & Destiny is the collaboration of Suzanne Wallinga (co-founder of A Tale of A Tub) and guest curator Eloise Sweetman that traverses the Justus van Effen complex in Rotterdam. The efflorescent program engages with the complexity of the surrounding modernist architecture by drawing it together with the work of Maria Zambrano (1904-1991), a Spanish philosopher and political writer.
