Dagmar Schmidt (artist)

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Dagmar Schmidt in front of the Historisches Museum Hannover on the opening day of the Bar Code exhibition

Dagmar Schmidt (born May 9, 1963 in Lommatzsch , Saxony) is a German artist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Meißen, Dagmar Schmidt worked in the concrete plant in Coswig / Saxony as an internship for the following architecture course. She then studied architecture from 1983 to 1985 at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction and from 1985 to 1992 art at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle with Inge Götze in the field of textiles. After graduating as a graduate artist, I received a two-year graduate scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt with Irmtraud Ohme in the field of metal. Dagmar Schmidt lives and works as a freelance artist and curator in Langenhagen ( Hanover region ).

plant

Excavation cities in Halle- Silberhöhe

Dagmar Schmidt, GRABUNGSSTAEDTE, Halle-Silberhöhe

Floor installation, 36 × 12 × 1 m, concrete: casting and recycling, Erich-Kästner-Strasse in Halle (Saale) - Silberhöhe After the five floors have been removed, the walls of the basement remain open at the top. The basement room is filled to a height of approx. 80 cm below the upper edge of the upper panel edge and can therefore be entered at ground level. Individual partitions were removed, others had to be supplemented with reinforced concrete slabs specially cast for this purpose; some door openings were closed and new openings were cut into the concrete elsewhere. The basement windows were closed with concrete blocks so that the overall appearance of six normal three-room apartments was created. The upper edge of the plate is only partially smoothed after the demolition. The character of a residential building with traces of use is retained.

After the structural transformation, the empty living shell, open at the top, was furnished with the typical concrete furniture of the time. Some ensembles, such as the dining table with four chairs or two armchairs with a coffee table, are each anchored on a concrete “carpet” - a 20 cm high foundation. In the center of Silberhöhe and elsewhere there are further individual pieces of the concrete objects cast in reusable steel molds.

In 2006, Dagmar Schmidt received the prestigious mfi award for art in architecture for the floor sculpture Grabungsstaedte . This award ceremony led to a broad national and international reception of the work of art and the social-historical theme behind it. The excavation site thus became an image for the urban redevelopment east ( demolition , shrinking cities).

Art education

"Fern Blossom" sculpture in the mountain garden ;
Dagmar Schmidt with Elena Glazunova 2018 in front of the Guelph mausoleum

In addition to artistic work, Dagmar Schmidt also works as a curator and art mediator, as well as the designer of numerous brochures and catalogs. For example, in 1996 she was responsible for the concept of art in public space for the city of Halle. From 2000 to 2012 she was chairwoman of the artistic advisory board at the Kunsthalle Villa Kobe in Halle (Saale) and curator of the annual major art exhibition (2002–2011). From 2002 to 2005 she was involved in the research project Art in Building in Federal Buildings on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing . Dagmar Schmidt organizes and moderates competitions on art in architecture and is a member of numerous prize juries.

Association functions in the BBK

Since November 2014 she has been chairwoman of the Association of Visual Artists for Lower Saxony (BBK Lower Saxony), and since October 2017 national chairwoman and spokeswoman for the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK). At the same time, the editor-in-chief of cultural policy is the association journal of the Federal Association of Visual Artists.

Exhibitions (selection)

Refugium, Wintergärten V , Hannover 2012
"Brain II" in July 2017 at the Deformations exhibition at Edelhof Ricklingen
  • 1993: Town house in Lichtenfels / Franconia
  • 1996: B-Place-Gallery, Kobe / Japan
  • 1998: Galerie Süd, Magdeburg
  • 2008: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe , Halle (Saale)
  • 2008: Lommatzsch City Museum / Saxony
  • 2010: Rathausgalerie, Langenhagen
  • 2011: j3fm, Hanover
  • 2012: Inside is outside is inside , together with Kerstin Schulz, bbk-ruhm , Hanover

Participation in exhibitions

Catalogs and media reports

  • Stahl, Johannes, 1999: On telescopes and viewpoints of Dagmar Schmidt, in: Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Kunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt (Hg.): Extended happy future. The exhibition on the project Art ___ Saxony-Anhalt. Exhibition catalog
  • Kunze, Ronald, 2006: Stadt Umbau Kunst. Concrete sofas and bathtubs, in: Stadt und Raum, April 2006, pp. 62–65
  • Kowa, Günter, 2006: Beautiful living in concrete. Today Dagmar Schmidt receives a highly endowed prize for the plastic excavation cities, in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (circulation 286,000) from June 23, 2006
  • Excavation cities - Socha - památník pod sirym next to Halle-Silberhöhe, in: Beton TKS, rso (HG): Beton. Technology. Construct. Sanace, issue 3/2008, pp. 76–78, Prague / Czech Republic (Czech)
  • "Excavation cities" Halle-Silberhöhe`de Acik Müze, in: Betonart. Beton ve Mimarlik, Winter 2010 issue, p. 3, p. 70–73, Istanbul / Turkey (Turkish)
  • Escultura excavation cities. Obra de arte y museo al aire libre en Halle (Saale) - Silberhöhe, in: Pasajes architectura y critica No. 111, 2010, pp. 4–5 (Spanish)
  • Stahl, Johannes, 2008: Inspiration, in: Erfurt & Sohn KG (ed.): Rauhfaser // Art. Walls in Transition, p. 4–5
  • Susanne Lindau, Petra Lindum, Kerstin Schulz: bar code. A swarm of art action on the nature of sexuality and art , annotated exhibition catalog with photos by Cordula Paul, Ilse Paul, Jürgen Rink, Helga Schäfer, Dagmar Schmidt, Franz Betz, Ulrike Enders and Kerstin Schulz, Atelier Dreieck (ed.), Hanover : Self-published , September 2012

literature

  • Dagmar Schmidt: Trace of the stones . Verlag Hamburg, Beim Schlump 58, Tobias Pfeifer-Helke, 2005

Web links

Commons : Dagmar Schmidt (artist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publications on the work  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dagmarschmidt.eu
  2. ↑ Stadtmuseum Lommatzsch ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 51 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lommatzsch.de
  3. ↑ j3fm . In: j3fm .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lommatzsch