Madeleine
Schwinge

Madeleine Schwinge is a multi-hyphenate artist, curator, consultant and creative entrepreneur.

For her, art is not a profession, but rather a way of perceiving the world that is characterized by deep sensitivity.

In 2020 she founded re:future lab to explore art as a social practice, foster positive utopias, and spark debate.

In 2022 she coined the term HOLITOPIA to propose a pragmatic utopia for the here and now. Her HOLITOPIA Manifesto is both, a call for a paradigm shift through artistic intelligence, and a guide to transformative learning.

In 2024, she curated the HOLITOPIA Festival for Arts and Futures, which was awarded the highest category for innovation and international attention by Projekt Zukunft, a program of the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy, and Public Enterprises.

In her artistic work, she uses multimedia and interventions to explore the upheavals of our time and their effects on our psyche and behaviour. 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.

With her eclectic mix of expertise and more than twenty years of experience in the visual arts, strategy, and entrepreneurship, Madeleine is a sought-after curator, speaker, and consultant. She brings unconventional perspectives to conferences and events on the topics of artistic intelligence, ultra contemporary art, the future, transformation, freedom and creativity, innovation, and leadership.

She lectures Creative Intelligence at the HTW University of Applied Sciences in Berlin in the master's program in Systemic Design.

She is engaged with the WFSF World Future Studies Federation (a UNESCO Partner) and the Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung Deutschland. She served the Ogilvy Futuring Science and Ethics Advisory Board in 2022-2023, and was appointed a founding member of Berlin Design e.V. in 2023.

She holds a diploma in economics (DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Stuttgart) and is a certified systemic coach and teaching coach (Dr. Bock Institute). She pursued further studies in art history (Free University Berlin) and obtained certificates in curation and fine arts (Berlin University of the Arts).