Erik Schmidt

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Born in 1968 in Herford, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin.



EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES
2006
Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris

2002
Scholarship at ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany

1998-2000
HdK Berlin, “freie Klasse”

1992-97    Fachhochschule Hamburg, Germany, Department of Design, Majors: Illustration / Painting


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Hunting Grounds, Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

2006
Hunting Grounds, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Nach der Jagd ist vor der Jagd, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

2005
Der schönste Jäger von Deutschland, carlier | gebauer, Berlin

2004
Jagdfieber ohne Nachtsichtgerät, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Potsdam, Germany (cat.)

2003
Suitwatcher’s Anonymous, carlier | gebauer, Berlin

2002
Kunst Zürich 2002, solo presentation for carlier | gebauer, Zurich

2001
Models Parking Cars, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (cat.)

1999
Einzel Gruppe Berlin (collab. project with Corinna Weidner), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1998
I love my hair, Ideen Shop, Berlin
I love my hair, Galerie 13, Hamburg, Germany


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Cine y casi cine, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (cat.)
Hunter & Gatherer, Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
Come-in, National Art Museum Hanoi, Hanoi, Viet Nam
Malkunst II, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy, Schloß Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany (cat.)
Niveaualarm, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Kunst in OWL - Teil I: Über die Tausend Quellen neben dem Durstenden in der Wüste, Museum Marta Herford, Germany (cat.)
Summer Project 8.8.8, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Gent, Belgium
27ste editie Poëziezomer Watou, Watou, Belgium
Screening scanners, Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Screening: Noufaux Riche, Para/Site Art Space-Baby Bar, Hong Kong, China

2006
Zurück zur Figur – Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Come-in, Korea Institute for Design, Seoul, Southkorea, Shanghai, China
New Trajectories I: RELOCATIONS, Ovitz Collection, Reed´s Cooley Gallery, Portland

2005
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone, New York (cat.)
Das Prof. Winkler Stipendium, Münzstr. 23, Berlin
Come-in, Museu Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Simple Life, Sachtourio former school, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
Sammlung MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany (cat.)

2004
Come-in, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Slip Role, Collective gallery, Edinburgh and Castelfields Gallery, Manchester, UK
Erik Schmidt - Recent Paintings, Gallery Henry Urbach     Architecture, New York
Licht!, Glue-Ausstellungsraum, Berlin
Gegenwärtig : Selbst, Inszeniert, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Based on a true story, Artist´s Space, New York, USA (cat.)

2003
Saar Ferngas Förderpreis, Junge Kunst 2002, Kunstverein/ Galerie Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany
Come-in, ifa - touring exhibition, University Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand / Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Actionbutton, New Acquisitions of the Bundessammlung in Contemporary Art 2000-2003, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.)
Über Menschen, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany, Modena, Italy (cat.)
Right here-right now, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria

2002
Berlin getting real, Kunst Zürich 2002, Zürich, Switzerland
Openvideospace, Openspace, Milan, Italy
Come-in, ifa - touring exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiew (cat.), Russia
Bilder aus Berlin, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2002, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (cat.)
OUTsideIN, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin, Germany
Stardust Delux, Lisa Lounge, Berlin, Germany
Queer Space, Stadt-Hand-Apparat, Dresden, Germany

2001
Novalog 2001, Tel Aviv-Berlin. New media experience, Berlin, Germany/ Tel Aviv, Israel
Berlin_London_2001 [screenings], Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
breathless, Lombard/Feid Fine Arts, New York, USA
Gallery Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica, USA
Contemporary Utopia - Musdienu Utopyia [curated by Frank Wagner], Kunstmuseum Arsenals, Riga, Latvia (cat.)
Come-In [curated by Prof. Volker Albus/Renate Goldmann], exhibition project of the ifa

2000
Youth Welcomes the III Millenium, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia (cat.)
The Biggest Games, Künstlerwerkstadt, Munich, Germany
Satellit/PluginVideo [curated by Marina Sorbello/Antje Weitzel], Berlin Pavillion Z 2000, Berlin
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, USA

1999
Come in and find out, Podewil, Berlin (cat.)
Work is Personal, Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
Art club berlin, Info Pavillon, Berlin/AU base, New York
Ticker, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin

1998
Für eine bessere Welt, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Straße, Munich, Germany
Names, Names, Names, Shift e.V., Berlin
Aids Worlds, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH (cat.)            "Schnittstelle/Produktion", Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
Art club berlin, Art Forum, Berlin
Plattform, 1. berlin biennale, Berlin
Ceterum Censeo, Marstall, Berlin
NEID Show, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (cat).


VIDEOGRAPHY
2005        
Hunting Grounds

2003        
Suitwatcher's Anonymous
Safefhood

2000
Parking

1999
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 28
Einzel Gruppe Berlin, Collaborative Project with Corinna Weidner

1998
Wenn Kunst zu Pop wird...,
Collaborative Project with Corinna Weidner

1997
I LOVE MY HAIR


PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
MARTa, Herford, Germany
Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Private Collections throughout Europe and the US

  • Erik Schmidt: Hunting Grounds (Hardcover)

    by Sebastian Preuss (Author), Niels Werber (Author), MARTa Herford (Editor), Esther Ruelfs (Editor)

    Erik Schmidt has hunting fever. This, his latest work, focuses on the sport as used in the aristocracy to stage-manage social image. Hunting is a social game, a fixed convention--and so the artist lay in wait, observed the codes, apparel and gestures, and was allowed to slip into character. The resulting works in film and painting pick up on the sport's classic visual theme, but Schmidt's plan of attack is conceptual: In taking on the role of the hunter, he reimagines the dialectic between hunter and hunted, perpetrator and victim. Hunting Grounds not only elucidates the sport's social and symbolic consequences and explores ideas of masculinity, but also reveals and engages our enduring fascination with this archaic, male-dominated world.

    Hardcover: 160 pages
    Publisher: Hatje Cantz (March 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 3775718273
    ISBN-13: 978-3775718271

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