Markus Schinwald’s work focuses on the body. In particular he studies movement and expressive gestures, and the ways in which these are governed by props, prosthesetic attachments or clothing (he originally studied  fashion design). The figures in his films and performances represent bodies without emotion, personality or psychology. Taking these concerns a step further, he has made a number of life-size marionettes, which can be seen as a prosthetic substitution for the whole body. For The World as a Stage, he has fabricated an inhuman and unsettling new marionette that periodically jerks into life.

Pawel Althamer | Cezary Bodzianowski | Ulla Von Brandenburg | Jeremy Deller | Trisha Donnelly | Geoffrey Farmer | Andrea Fraser | Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster | Jeppe Hein | Renata Lucas | Rita McBride | Roman Ondák | Markus Schinwald | Tino Sehgal | Catherine Sullivan | Mario Ybarra Jr