Melissa Schwarz is a German interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher, based in London.
Her research and practice are mainly concerned with topics around critical ecology, speculative futures and cyborg theory. As such she examines socio-political narratives, nature concepts and multiverse theories. She creates work which uses different media for her poetic storytelling, from more traditional mediums to 3D.
Her current research focuses on extractivism and hauntology.
Melissa is an Associate Lecturer at The University of the Arts London, teaching on MA Interaction Design at LCC as well as in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at LCF. She is also an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London on MA Design Expanded Practice.
Part of https://criticalclimatecomputing.com/
Email mellenschwarz@gmail.com
Instagram @msschwarz
CV
Residencies
SíM Residency August 2025
Reykjavík, Iceland
Mayes Creative March 2025 Dartmoor National Park, UK
Praksis August - September 2024
Oslo, Norway
| Resident Artist as part of the residency theme ‘Your pleasure, our pain’
Hqi September - December 2023
London, UK
SíM Residency April – June 2022
Reykjavík, Iceland
Exhibitions
Entangled with the landscape August 2025
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists at SíM Korpúlfsstaðir
Radical Landscapes October 2023 - Feburary 2024
London, UK
| Artist Commission with Hervisions at the William Morris Gallery
Desire Generation April 2023
London, UK
| Group show with DIGI-GXL at Dalston Superstore
What are men to rocks and mountains June – October 2022
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| Group show at Platform P-OST
tunglið, tunglið taktu mig May 2022
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists
Visceral Realities Exhibition December 2021
London, UK
| London College of Communication MA ID Final Show
Ars Electronica - The View From Somewhere September 2021
Linz, Austria
| Desktop Cinema screening
CTRL-ALT-DEL SMC:Real Time Exhibition December 2020
London, UK
| Group Exhibition Foubert’s Place Carnaby
Aesthetica Short Film Festival November 2019
York, UK
| LCF Showcase screening
Publications
Article ‘Extractivist Capitalism and Haunted Landscapes’ for
Praksis Presents Issue 12 - Your Pleasure, Our Pain — Interrogating luxury’s ethics, extraction, complicity and alternatives
Artwork for Xeno-futurism Magazine Issue 2 2025
Events
Juicy Nuisance music night December 2024
The Glove That Fits, London, UK
| Exhibition of artworks
Her research and practice are mainly concerned with topics around critical ecology, speculative futures and cyborg theory. As such she examines socio-political narratives, nature concepts and multiverse theories. She creates work which uses different media for her poetic storytelling, from more traditional mediums to 3D.
Her current research focuses on extractivism and hauntology.
Melissa is an Associate Lecturer at The University of the Arts London, teaching on MA Interaction Design at LCC as well as in the Department of Critical and Historical Studies at LCF. She is also an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London on MA Design Expanded Practice.
Part of https://criticalclimatecomputing.com/
Email mellenschwarz@gmail.com
Instagram @msschwarz
CV
Residencies
SíM Residency August 2025
Reykjavík, Iceland
Mayes Creative March 2025 Dartmoor National Park, UK
Praksis August - September 2024
Oslo, Norway
| Resident Artist as part of the residency theme ‘Your pleasure, our pain’
Hqi September - December 2023
London, UK
SíM Residency April – June 2022
Reykjavík, Iceland
Exhibitions
Entangled with the landscape August 2025
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists at SíM Korpúlfsstaðir
Radical Landscapes October 2023 - Feburary 2024
London, UK
| Artist Commission with Hervisions at the William Morris Gallery
Desire Generation April 2023
London, UK
| Group show with DIGI-GXL at Dalston Superstore
What are men to rocks and mountains June – October 2022
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
| Group show at Platform P-OST
tunglið, tunglið taktu mig May 2022
Reykjavík, Iceland
| Group show with The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists
Visceral Realities Exhibition December 2021
London, UK
| London College of Communication MA ID Final Show
Ars Electronica - The View From Somewhere September 2021
Linz, Austria
| Desktop Cinema screening
CTRL-ALT-DEL SMC:Real Time Exhibition December 2020
London, UK
| Group Exhibition Foubert’s Place Carnaby
Aesthetica Short Film Festival November 2019
York, UK
| LCF Showcase screening
Publications
Article ‘Extractivist Capitalism and Haunted Landscapes’ for
Praksis Presents Issue 12 - Your Pleasure, Our Pain — Interrogating luxury’s ethics, extraction, complicity and alternatives
Artwork for Xeno-futurism Magazine Issue 2 2025
Events
Juicy Nuisance music night December 2024
The Glove That Fits, London, UK
| Exhibition of artworks
Education
MA Interaction Design Communication
| University of the Arts London (UK) 2020 – 2021
BA(Hons) Fashion Styling and Production
| University of the Arts London (UK) 2017 – 2020
BA English and Philosophy
| University of Stuttgart (DE) 2015 – 2017