Carlo Schmidt (artist)

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Carlo Schmidt (* 28. March 1958 in Sierre ) is a Swiss artist and curators r . He lives and works in Leuk, Wallis.

Act

Carlo Schmidt taught visual arts at the édhéa cantonal art school (then ECAV). He was co-initiator and founding donor of the non-profit foundation Schloss Leuk , where he worked as manager under the architect Mario Botta during the restoration of the bishop's palace in Leuk-Stadt, which is under the protection of the Swiss Confederation .

Carlo Schmidt is a member of the Visarte professional association (Upper Valais section) and, together with Pascal Seiler and Rolf Fussen, founder of the artist group “Acht-8 und 11/2”. Together with Francoise Loeb, he initiated the international " Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize " in 2000 .

He also served as president of various non-profit cultural and educational associations such as B. the “Literature Cluster Palais Valais”, the “Märliwelt Leuk Association” or as a board member of the “Oberwalliser Heimatschutz”, the “Kinderweeelten Leuk-Stadt Association” and the “Alte Suste Association”, as a board member of the Green Room Agarn , the “Magic Forest” Ernen ”, the“ Chinderwält Visperterminen Foundation ”, the“ Art in Spital Foundation ”and the“ gd-Schule ”Bratsch.

As a jury member of the cantonal funding structures Art Pro, artist in residence and the purchasing committee, and as the person responsible for the “Appetizers” exhibition series at Leuk Castle, he supports and promotes young artists.

He was elected Vice President Cultur Valais / Kultur Wallis by the “Association of Wallis Cities” and was elected by the State Council in 2010 to the Culture Council of the Canton of Valais, where he has been a member since then. In 2017 he received the culture award of the city of Leuk.

Artistic practice

Carlo Schmidt dealt with climate change as early as the 1980s . So he created “zero energy art” by making art from the products in the shops and then dismantling them after the exhibition and putting them on the shelves, that is, back into the cycle.

The environment, social and economic injustices, ethics and morals are central themes in his work. Carlo Schmidt is involved with creative input in many non-profit sociocultural institutions such as in the education sector.

Schmidt uses ubiquitous consumables such as adhesive tape, wooden boards, sheets of paper, wire or cardboard in his works.

Activity as a curator

year	Exhibition title	Artist	Laudator	Place of issue	Curation
				To the K-Galerie , Leuk-Stadt	Carlo Schmidt
1992	Uecker	Günther Uecker	Dieter Honisch , former director of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
1994		Richard Jackson	Jörn Merkert , former director of the Berlinische Galerie	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
2000		Richard Long	Patrice Blaser, currently at Galerie Winter, Vienna	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
2011		Balthasar Burkhard	René Wochner, Exhibition Management Kunstmuseum Bern	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
1997	Retro		Gottfried Honegger , Swiss painter and sculptor	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
2018		Arnold Dreyblatt	Sibylle Omlin, freelance curator	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
2014	Contact		Gerhard Mack, journalist for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung	Leuk Castle	Carlo Schmidt
	Concrete poetry	Eugen Gomringer		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt
	Creation of a work	Günther Uecker		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt
	Black Mesa	Günther Uecker		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt
	entropy	Javier Hagen, Eugen Gomringer, Pius MOrger		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt
	Coloratura	Helmuth Heissenbüttel, Augusto Giacometti		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt
	Creation of a smoke image	Otto Piene		Leuk Castle	Rolf Schroeter (Zurich photographer), Carlo Schmidt

Participation in exhibitions as an artist

Since 1983 Carlo Schmidt has shown his work at over a hundred exhibitions in Germany and abroad. The following list is a selection of them.

year	Cultural institution	place
1991	Grahl Gallery	Berlin
1991	Northern art	Hamburg
1995-2002	International art fair	Zurich
1996	Cultural exchange	Switzerland, Spain, Austria
1996	Katharinensaal	St. Gallen
1996-2000	Art Frankfurt	Frankfurt
1997	Gallery station 3	Vienna
1997, 1998	Art multiple	Dusseldorf
1997, 2000	Galerie la Ferronnerie	Paris
1998	Kunsthaus Grenchen	Grenchen
1998, 1999, 2002, 2005	Hafner Gallery	St. Gallen
1998, 1999	Gallery winter	Berlin
1999, 2001	Art Forum Berlin	Berlin
1999	Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair	Vienna
2000, 2001	FAC	Sierre
2000	Canvas house d. City of Frankfurt	Frankfurt
2004	Merce	Barcelona
2006, 2008	Forum Valais	Valais
2008,2019	Ferme d'Asile	Sion
2008	Label Art Fully	Fully
2014	Mon Tan Dun	Sierre, Klaipéda
2017	Valais Canton Museum	Sion
2018	Augmented Reality Expo	Leuk, Visp, Susten
2019	Ferronnerie Gallery	Paris

Awards and invitations

year	Institution / event / invitation	place
1987	Art in the old town	Winterthur
1997	Invited by Kunstverein Obersee	Berlin
1991	"The Soviet Designers" invitation,	Moscow
1995	Opening exhibition Kunst Zürich Schang Hutter, Seiler Pascal, Schmidt Carlo, Gottfried Honegger	Zurich
1998, 1999	Cultural Year in Beijing	Beijing
2004	Artist grant	Barcelona
2002	Innovation award for cultural projects
2004	Art on the building school Varen	Varen
2005	Art in construction at Brig Hospital
2006	Swiss mountain water award for innovation
2009	Generation integration award
2008	Spilstrass Visp project	Visp
2010	Artist in Residence PH Rorschach	Rohrschach
2010	Research project ETH Zurich, aesthetic education	Zurich
2013, 2014	Festival of Ephemeral Art
2014, 2015	Art Pro	Sion
2014	Montandun project Lithuania	Lithuania
2015	Cultural participation project
2015	architectural art	Saas Almagell village square
2017	Culture Prize of the City of Leuk	Leuk