Gunna Schmidt

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Gunna Schmidt (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German artist . She lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Gunna Schmidt studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ben Willikens , Cristina Iglesias and Rita McBride, among others . She obtained her diploma in painting from Günther Förg . Her artistic focus is painting and installation. She lives and works in Berlin.

Gunna Schmidt's artistic approach is based on the idea of ​​abstraction, her painting appears as a continuation of the experimental achievements of abstract expressionism , represented by artists such as Jackson Pollock and later Joan Mitchell .

In her large-format painting, Gunna Schmidt uses the material color in a way that, analogous to the American variant of European tachism ( initiated by Helen Frankenthaler ) , could be called stained canvas or stain painting . Heavily diluted paint sinks directly into unprimed canvas or raw nettle fabric and bonds with the fabric. This approach does not permit any corrections, but rather shows traces of the painterly action side by side.

In her small-format pictures Gunna Schmidt works with color in an emphatically material way. A mixture of different colored materials condenses in crusts and piles of paint on the surface of the picture. The paint here seems not only to have been applied, but also removed from the canvas, because some traces are similar to the traces of paint on a painter's palette. Analogous to this, the spots of color and traces of the large-format painting by Gunna Schmidt appear like wiping marks on a mallet cloth. The act of painting as such is thus expanded through the presence of its by-products.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015 "l'oiseau présente ..." - BE ABSTRACT , Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
  • 2015 By Products , edited by Zoe Claire Miller, Haus am Lützowplatz in the IGMetall showroom, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 SALOON , curated by Tina Sauerländer and Alina Heinze, SEXAUERGALLERY, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Splendid Views , works from the Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Rip, Cut - Grow , "l'oiseau présente ...", project of the Berlin Art Week 2014, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Dating Service , Autocenter eV, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Gunna Schmidt: FREI , Laura Mars Grp., Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 The garden of paths that branch out. II , "l'oiseau présente ...", Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 Painting Forever! Stretcher , KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 Parting the mane of the wild horse. , "l'oiseau présente ...", Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 The Legend of the Shelves , Autocenter eV, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 Gunna Schmidt: SUR FACE , "L'oiseau présente ...", Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 Light Space Project - Rituals Of Exhibition II , H Gallery Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • 2012 Sno 86 - Berlin Non Objective , SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 2012 Choses vues à Gauche et à Droite (sans lunettes) , "l'oiseau présente ...", Berlin, Germany
  • 2011 10 Años del Programa de Residencias , La Colección del CCA Andratx. 2001–2011 / KUNSTHALLE - CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
  • 2011 Dorothea , Ancient & Modern, London, UK
  • 2010 The garden of paths that branch out , "l'oiseau présente ...", Berlin, Germany
  • 2010 SNO 56 - Folk 2: assemblage No. 4 , SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • 2008 Too Hot Not To Be Naked , Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, Germany
  • 2007 Reopening - Part 2 , Autocenter eV, Berlin, Germany
  • 2007 strange weight , Martos Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
  • 2007 The Friends´ Meeting , Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, Germany
  • 2007 Prague Biennale 3 , Prague Biennale , Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2007 Our affects fly out of the realm of human reality, Sandra Buergel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2006 Gunna Schmidt: Immerdar , Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin, Germany
  • 2005 Gunna Schmidt: View into Infinity , Autocenter eV, Berlin, Germany
  • 2003 Five German Women , Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
  • 2003 Gunna Schmidt: Das Mehr , Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
  • 2003 HOSSA - German Art of the 2000s , Centro Cultural Andratx , Mallorca, Spain.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunna Schmidt's website , accessed on August 18, 2015
  2. ↑ Glossary arthistory.about.com - stain painting ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arthistory.about.com
  3. ↑ Painting Forever! Stretcher , in stretcher , catalog, published by Berlinische Galerie , Deutsche Bank KunstHalle , KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Nationalgalerie (Berlin) - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Verlag Kettler Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-285-0
  4. ↑ fuckoffmachopaintersc.um text by Andreas Schlaegel, in praguebiennale 3 , catalog, published by Giancarlo Politi, Milan 2007.
  5. ↑ By Products with articles by: Sophie Jung, Hanne Lippard, Christian Struck and Cecilia Valenti, catalog, ed. Hands on Papers, Berlin 2015.
  6. ↑ Figure artnet.de
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Gunna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich