Swaantje GüntzelSep 12, 2025
Meet us at POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair, Galerie Holthoff (Hamburg), Booth B 27. Still running until Sunday (September 14th)!

[Swaantje Güntzel, stomach contents XXL, 2014, metal, plastics, height: 145 cm. Vending machine filled with toys ingested by laysan albatrosses in the Pacific Ocean. Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy. Foto: Alexander Burzik].

[Swaantje Güntzel, Crevasse / Brixdalsbreen, Norway, ca. 1970, 2022, cropped postcard, 33.4 x 22.8 cm. The images of glaciers found on photographs, postcards, CdV, maps etc. were cut out and preserved. Foto: Tobias Hübel]

[Swaantje Güntzel, Anna, carrying plastic wrapped fruits, 2019, Diasec, 100 x 67,7 cm, Foto: Henriette Pogoda]

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Swaantje GüntzelSep 6, 2025
About bottle caps and a general denial of reality.

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!

[Swaantje Güntzel, stomach contents/340g, 2012, plastics, metal, 19,7 x 26,7 x 25,4 cm]

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

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Swaantje GüntzelJun 15, 2025
stomach contents XXL

Vending machine filled with plastic toys that have been ingested by Laysanalbatrosses in the Pacific Ocean. The objects were found in the bolus of dead albatrosses on Midway and Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, stomach contents XXL, 2014, plastics, metal, height: 145 cm]

Fotos: Alexander Burzik

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Swaantje GüntzelApr 28, 2025
JOANA / ingested, 2019

Portrait of the artists assistant “throwing up” plastic fragments that were found in the bolus of an albatross chick on Kure Atoll (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands).

Realized with the help of Kure Atoll Conservancy.

[Swaantje Güntzel, JOANA / ingested, 2019, Diasec, 112 x 80 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda
Model: Joana Bacelar

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DominiqueNov 30, 2024

Wisdom❤
Jedes Jahr um diese Zeit ein Hoffen und Bangen bei mir, dass Wisdom noch lebt. Finally 74 years old!
#Laysanalbatross

https://www.instagram.com/p/DC-k7TqsWF_/?igsh=Y3phcHZ3dXdncmhm

Friends of Midway NWR on Instagram: "Wisdom, who is at least 74-years-old was sighted on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024 and quickly found a compatible mate. Her egg was laid later that day. She once again mystifies biologists and scientists with her resiliency and strength. Enjoy the couple's first photo shoot by Dan Rapp: https://friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-sighting @papahanaumokuakea.hawaii @usfws"

172 likes, 6 comments - friendsofmidwaynwr on November 29, 2024: "Wisdom, who is at least 74-years-old was sighted on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024 and quickly found a compatible mate. Her egg was laid later that day. She once again mystifies biologists and scientists with her resiliency and strength. Enjoy the couple's first photo shoot by Dan Rapp: https://friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-sighting @papahanaumokuakea.hawaii @usfws".

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