Dominik Schmitt

Dominik Schmitt in the Janinebeangallery, Berlin 2017

Dominik Schmitt (born October 4, 1983 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German artist. His work mainly includes painting and video, but also sculpture, drawing, installation, music and poetry. Thematically, he deals with subjectivity as well as questions about art and its terminology. Schmitt lives and works in Landau in the Palatinate and Karlsruhe.

Life

Schmitt lived with his parents and brother in Haßloch and later in Neidenfels in Rhineland-Palatinate . The interest in drawing began in childhood. In 1989 the family moved to Lambrecht , where Schmitt grew up and from 1994 attended the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium in neighboring Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . At the age of 17, in 2000, Schmitt first took part in a group exhibition in an old factory building in Lambrecht. After graduating from high school, Schmitt began studying fine arts and art history , biology and educational sciences at the University of Koblenz-Landau in the winter semester 2005/2006 . Under the direction of the lecturer Günther Berlejung , he began to develop his style. He paused a few semesters through grants, exhibitions and his film work (from 2010). In 2013 he graduated with the first state examination. In the same year he re-enrolled, in order to take his exams consecutively to expand to the master's degree . He graduated in 2015, but did not become a teacher.

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Painting / drawing

As a child, Schmitt began to create an extensive collection of very different drawings. At the age of 16 he experimented with acrylic painting on wood. In 2001 he caused a stir for the first time with his painting "September 11th", which was purchased by the Lambrecht Association. In the apocalypse exhibition of the Kunstverein Neustadt in the Saalbau Galerie he showed his first large painting on wood "the last day". The picture shows a vision in which hundreds of people are killed by angels and their children are robbed.

Due to the new space available from 2005 in the studio of the University of Koblenz-Landau and the various influences during his studies, he developed his own style around 2008 by increasingly starting to thematize himself and his environment through animals and his own symbols. Schmitt himself dates this phase to summer 2009 and calls it “self-birth”, which he also uses as the title for some exhibitions, pictures and texts. According to Schmitt, the term means one's own birth in the world of images / in art. This motif continues in his work and intensifies until he depicts his own naked body. The combination with the attribute "saint" shows on the one hand criticism of religion and at the same time its reflection as a moral authority with exchanged protagonists and alienated or own themes. In 2010, works by Schmitt were removed from two exhibitions due to religious provocation.

Movie

In 2010 Schmitt published his first pixilation short film on the subject of his pictures: Placenta . This consists of 6,000 photos and shows Schmitt himself in a bizarre plot surrounded by animals that are known from his paintings. The film wins several prizes and will be shown at an international short film festival in the Kunsthalle Mannheim and in 2011 in the Istanbul Modern Museum of Contemporary Art . In the same year he also began to animate paintings and drawings using the stop-motion technique. In November 2012 he published his first animated film Paradigma , made up of over 10,000 painted individual phases. The film also deals with the theme of his painting in seven chapters and a prologue. Since 2012, Schmitt has been animating stage sets for befriended bands, music and cultural events in his painting-stop-motion style.

Filmography (selection)

2001: A man with a shield (short film)
2004: Abortion (Documentation)
2010: Placenta (short film)
2011: Janein (animated painting)
2012: Paradigm (animated short film)
2013: 4-day shower (video installation)
2013: Lluvia - Fallen Leaf (music video)

Cooperation with musicians

In 2010 Schmitt worked with the post-rock band Her Name is Calla from England. He designed the cover of the single Maw (2011); the band contributed almost all of the music and sounds for his short film Paradigma . Since 2012 there have been further CD covers, including for the 2014 debut album "Mine" by the German singer Mine (singer) . In the same year Schmitt designed another cover for Her Name is Calla - this time for the album "Navigator".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2019: Vienna, Galerie Felix Höller, "sirius"
2019: Karlsruhe, Gallery ARTLETstudio “Insideout”
2019: Biel, Gallery 95, "Circus of Questions"
2018: Vienna, Galerie Felix Höller, “anatomy of reason”
2018: Offenbach am Main, Galerie Thomas Hühsam, “kausalkanon”
2017: Vienna, Galerie Felix Höller, "ad absurdum"
2015: Frankenthal, Kunsthaus Frankenthal, (Kunstverein Die Treidler), "dark colored"
2015: Rockenhausen, Museum Kahnweilerhaus , "WAR"
2012: Mannheim, Alte Feuerwache (Mannheim) " Long Night of Museums "
2012: Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Villa Böhm "Self-birth"

Measure (selection)

2020: Cologne, Discovery Art Fair.Virtual
2019: New York, SCOPE Art Fair, The Directed Art Modern
2019: Basel, Basel Contemporary, Lakesidegallery
2019: Frankfurt, Discovery Art Fair, Galerie Thomas Hühsam
2018: Palm Beach (USA), Art Palm Beach, Directed Art Modern
2018: Basel, SCOPE Art Fair, janinebeangallery
2017: Basel, SCOPE Art Fair, janinebeangallery
2016: Miami Beach, Savoy, Art Basel Week, DAM Art'16
2016: Essen, CAR, Contemporary Art Ruhr, funding area “Talente”
2014: Paris, Grand Palais, " FIAC " (Foire internationale d'art contemporain)

Group exhibitions (selection)

2020: Offenbach am Main (Ger), Offenbach Art Association, “Karminsky Collection”
2020: Offenbach am Main (Ger), Galerie Thomas Hühsam, “Infected with art”
2019: Miami, The Directed Art Modern
2019: Vienna, Galerie Felix Höller
2018: Berlin, janinebeangallery “strange matter”
2018: Częstochowa, Miejska Galeria Sztuki, “INCIDENT ACCIDENT”
2018: Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, Berlinische Galerie
2018: Münster, Gallery ARTLETstudio “a symbolic summer”
2017: Münster, Gallery ArtletStudio, “semi-dark”
2017: Berlin, janinebeangallery “Encounters”
2017: Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie
2017: Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, Berlinische Galerie
2017: Berlin, mianki.gallery
2017: Büdelsdorf, NordArt 2017
2017: Berlin, janinebeangallery, “Dominik Schmitt & Daniel Harms”
2017: Ludwigshafen, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen "Emy Roeder Prize 2017"
2016: Offenbach am Main, Galerie Thomas Hühsam, “Vertigo View”
2016: Cologne, Galerie Luzia Sassen
2016: Neustadt, Mußbach, Herrenhof art gallery, “Four of the best in the southwest”
2015: Paris, Palais des Musées d'art moderne, "Palais de Tokyo"
2015: Vienna, Palais Kinsky
2014: Paris, Palais des Musées d'art modern, "Palais de Tokyo"
2014: Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , "Apocalypse Now!"
2014: Ludwigshafen, City Museum, "Armorika"
2014: Offenbach am Main, Galerie Thomas Hühsam, "Variation"
2014: Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, "Regionale 2014"
2013: Landau, Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius "Fresh (E) Art"
2013: Tarnowskie Góry (Poland), Galeria Pod-Nad
2013: Częstochowa (Poland), ADJ Galeria Jan Dlugosz University
2013: Offenbach am Main, Galerie Thomas Hühsam
2013: Swansea (UK), Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
2012: Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern "Palatinate Prize for Painting 2012"
2011: Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim "Art vs Party"
2011: Mußbach, Kunsthalle: Herrenhof (Mußbach) "Image Laboratory"
2011: Heidelberg, Galerie Melnikow
2010: Mainz, Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate
2010: Munich, Galerie Richter & Masset "the rise of underground art in europe"
2003: Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Saalbau Galerie

Awards & scholarships (selection)

2014: "Best animated Shortfilm", International Film Awards, Berlin
2013: Nomination for the “Palatinate Prize for Painting”, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
2011: International Promotion Prize Galerie Richter & Masset, Munich
2010: “Show your art” international sponsorship award, Galerie Richter & Masset, Munich
2010: Regional Promotion Prize, La.Meko Film Festival Landau
2010: Winner of the international Villa Böhm sponsorship award, Kunstverein Neustadt e. V.
2009: Heinrich von Zügel grant for painting from the city of Wörth
2009: Winner of the Pfälzer Kunstfreunde e. V., Herrenhof Art Gallery
2007: Winner of the “Researchers Night” art competition, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Web links

Official website of Dominik Schmitt

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.dominik-schmitt.com/ (as of January 2, 2014)

personal data
SURNAME	Schmitt, Dominik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmitt, Dominik Leo Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th October 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

[1] ttp://www.dominik-schmitt.com/ (as of January 2, 2014)