exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS/Past
INTO THE SEEDS OF TIME
Solo exhibition
OMVED GARDENS
LONDON | 31.05.2025 - 03.08.2025
An exhibition presenting Vivienne’s work and her year-long residency at OmVed Gardens. The show combines films, paper sculptures, installations and Japanese ink paintings exploring the journey of beans from seed to harvest, their potential for human and planetary health and the influence of Japanese culture in Schadinsky’s work. The exhibition extended across all the new spaces, including the barn, the kitchen, the seed library, and the greenhouse.
OmVed Gardens is the London Action Hub for the Chef’s Manifesto. During the residency, three bean-based meals were developed — using beans observed on-site one created by OmVed’s head chef and two others by Chef’s Manifesto chefs to celebrate the power of beans. OmVed hosted the annual symposium, where chefs from 77 countries gathered to discuss food systems and climate action, with beans taking center stage.
Throughout the exhibition, OmVed’s kitchen served a range of bean-based meals prepared on site.
Visitors were invited to share their own bean recipes on specially designed cards. OmVed supports the UN WFP - The World Food Programme in transforming our food systems and advocating for climate action.
You can read more here and listen to interviews Vivienne conducted with her advisors during her residency.
For more info https://omvedgardens.com/into-the-seeds-of-time
and read Vivienne’s reflections here
Please get in touch if you would like to see the full catalogue of works.
Workshops
Vivienne led four specially devised Japanese ink workshops / sumi-e, each including exercises and techniques designed to help participants connect with the natural landscape, the seasons, and the surrounding climate on the day of the workshop. Herbal teas from the garden were served to deepen this connection.
Talk
Vivienne and Dr Helen Barnard - Climate Ethicist University of Oxford - were in conversation - the first barn talk in the new OmVed buildings about: Creativity, Responsibility & Hope in the Climate Crisis
Exhibition Credits
Production: OmVed Gardens
Art & Creative Direction: Vivienne Schadinsky
Curation & Coordination: Sol Polo
Exhibition Audiovisuals & Photographic Work:
Camera & Edition: Will Hearle, Script & Direction: Vivienne Schadinsky
Exhibition Design: PiM.studio Architects
Exhibition Photography: Maurizio Mucciola
Graphic Design: Myriam Waldbillig
PR & Communications: Owen O’Leary
Marketing & Communications: Joanna Ayre
EXHIBITIONS/Past
24 EXHIBITION
Group exhibition
NATIONAL ART CENTER – TOKYO
JAPAN | 11.06.2025 - 23.06.2025
International Sumi -e Association in Japan.
Vivienne was honoured the Cultural Award from the International Sumi-e Association in Tokyo for her painting EDAMAME.
EXHIBITIONS/Past
23 EXHIBITION
Group exhibition
NATIONAL ART CENTER – TOKYO
JAPAN | 12.06.2024 - 24.06.2024
International Sumi -e Association in Japan.
Ink painting ADZUKI BEANS - was honoured with the Encouragement Award.
EXHIBITIONS/Past
22 EXHIBITION
Group exhibition
NATIONAL ART CENTER – TOKYO
JAPAN | 14.06.2023 - 26.06.2023
International Sumi-e Association in Japan.
Two paintings from the ongoing project MAGIC HOUR were selected – reflecting on the loss of biodiversity of food plants:
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
TRACE
Group exhibition
OmVed Gardens
London | 19.05.2023 - 04.06.2023
1 Townsend Yard, Highgate
London, N6 5JF
TRACE – is taking place in the beautiful glasshouse and gardens of OmVed Gardens, Highgate.
It is a collaborative exhibition by specialist craft gallery Thrown, greenscape, food project and sustainability hub OmVed Gardens and sustainably led floral art & design studio Metafleur for the Chelsea Fringe 2023, during the Chelsea Flower Show.
Thoughts on ecological footprints – the ideas within the exhibition will be further with a curated programme of events, including talks, workshops, live music and a leave no trace supperclub.
ARTIST TALK – The Magic Hour paintings raise questions about vanishing food plants. Learn more more about Vivienne's extensive ongoing research on endangered and extinct plants and fungi and how she interprets them within her art.
Photography : Will Hearle
EXHIBITIONS/ Ongoing
SEED PLANTING ART
Group exhibition
Longyearbyen Museum Spitsbergen Island Svalbard archipelago
Norway | 01.11.2022 - 21.12.2023
Selected by an international jury:
Artists For Seeds and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 2022.
MAGIC HOUR – Ink paintings – plants in our food chain that are endangered through climate change and the central role these plants have for our survival.
The seeds of each painted plant are stored in the Svalbard Seed Vault.
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
EARTH
Group Exhibition
North House Gallery
Manningtree/UK | 23.07. - 27.08. 2022
MAGIC HOUR – Ink paintings drawing attention to plants in our food chain that are endangered through climate change.
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
_ON THE LINE BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY_
Solo Exhibition
North House Gallery
Manningtree/UK | 05.03 - 09.04. 2022
Observation of nature from the study of the small changes within the 72 Japanese micro seasons, to work developed from her very extensive research on the consequences of climate change. The work is a reflection on the loss of biodiversity of flowers, food security and clean water.
Over 100 paintings were on display.
Photography : Rebecca Lewis
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
REWILDING
Group exhibition
TOAST Marylebone
London/UK | 08.10 - 19.11. 2021
Truffles only grow in a few regions in Italy and central Europe and the main reason for their decline is climate change. Without fungi, nutrients would not cycle through the ecosystem, causing the breakdown of the entire food chain.
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
NOT HERE – NOT THERE
Solo exhibition
Salotto Gallery
Basel/Switzerland | 10.11. - 16.12 2017
Impermanence and change, perfect imperfection
Capturing the cyclical repetition of nature
EXHIBITIONS/ Past
I PAINT FLOWERS
Solo exhibition
HSOA Gallery
London/UK | 31.01. - 14.02. 2016
