Joey Schmidt-Muller

Joey (Joe) Schmidt-Muller , (born September 7, 1950 in Allschwil ) is a Swiss-Australian artist.

Life

Joey Schmidt-Muller was born (as Josef Schmidt) in Allschwil, in the canton of Basel-Landschaft . After the preliminary course at the Basel School of Design (1 year), he completed a four-year graphic apprenticeship as a retoucheur at the Birkhäuser Verlag in Basel . Afterwards graphic training in Zurich and Cape Town , South Africa . First drawings and a cartoon character emerge.

The decision to lead a free artistic life led him to return to Switzerland, Niederwald VS , ( Goms district ), canton of Valais in 1971 . The first time he lived with his mother, Margarete Schmidt, in an attic in the Cesar Ritz house . The village idyll did not please him for long. Soon he moved on to Basel to take drawing and painting lessons again at the arts and crafts school. He had first contacts with the Basel artists Jean Tinguely (1925–1991), Franz Fedier (1922–2005), Gustav Stettler (1913–2005), Andreas His (1928–2011) and the members of the Farnsburg group : Joseph Edward Duvanel (1941 –1986), Fahrner (1932–1977), Walter Wegmüller (1937–), Irène Zurkinden (1909–1987) and the fashion designer Fred Spillmann (1915–1986).

The " New Objectivity " was an important art movement in the German Reich and covers the period of the Weimar Republic from 1918 to 1933. It emerged immediately after the First World War, with the turn of many artists such as Otto Dix and George Grosz to socially critical pictorial subjects and ended in 1933 with the seizure of power by the National Socialists.

The examination and transformation of socially critical, traumatic and illusionistic thoughts formed from 2009 Joey's (pseudonym "Josua" until 1986) new, own style, the "Traumatic Objectivity", which is understood as a connection and continuation of the "New Objectivity" from 1933 is. The basic idea was that we all wear a mask and hide our thoughts, fears and feelings every day. The focus of his artistic implementation is on people and transience, reduced to the essentials, which make his thoughts understandable with the help of the visible. In 2012 the catalog “Traumatic Objectivity” was published on the occasion of a retrospective in the Galerie Haus zum Wolf in Basel, CH.

In 2013 he realized his first art project “Red Balloon” with the artist group H`ART from Rheinfelden, which was supposed to form a floating red borderline between Switzerland and Germany on the Rhine near Rheinfelden. The action was interrupted by the water police. This was followed in 2013 by the “Red Balloon Extension” in Weil am Rhein. 2014 “The Vogel Gryff Affair” on the Rhine ferry in Basel, 2015 “Live Stream” in Rheinfelden-Herten and “The blind Passenger” in Basel, 2016 “Cherry Blossom” in Unna and “The Snake” in Eupen, Belgium. In 2014 he left the artist group H`ART.

2015 founding member of the artist group White Cube and White Cube reloaded. Since 2015 member of Visarte Basel / Switzerland, professional association of visual artists. Member of the German artist group Reflex. A new episode in his artistic career is the cooperation with the German poet Wernfried Hübschmann .

In 2018 he founded the artist group UNWETTER together with Reimund Kasper , Alfred Gockel and Wernfried Hübschmann .

Exhibitions (selection)

1973–1986: First participation in the 4th ART Basel. First group exhibition in the legendary catacomb in Basel, CH. Inclusion in various art collections in Switzerland, Germany & Israel. Collection E. & E. Brodbeck, Basel. Otto Markes Collection, Basel. Carl Laszlo Collection, Hungary.
1973–2016 Numerous solo and group exhibitions; Participation in international art fairs and galleries in Basel, Zurich, Frankfurt, Berlin, Miami, Palm Beach, New York.
2014 ArtDesign Feldkirch
2014 Art Fair Spectrum Miami, Miami, USA
2015 18th Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA
2015 Art Fair Frankfurt
2015 17th Art International Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Artexpo New York, USA
2016 "Ouvert et Solidaire", Visarte , Switzerland
2017 Dortmund Museum Night
2017 1st Pratteln Biennale, Switzerland
2017 XI Biennale in Florence, Italy
2018 House of Kamen City History, Kamen
2018 10th ART CAME
2018 Chan Liu Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Art Revolution, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Chain Forge Museum & Kulturschmiede, Fröndenberg / Ruhr
2018 Art Lingen art fair
2019 Art Revolution, Taipei, Taiwan

Art projects

2015 Joey Schmidt-Muller - An artist portrait
2016 Heartbeat , a modern dance of death
2016 time jam - cooperation with the poet Wernfried Hübschmann
2017 member of the German artist group Reflex
2018 founding member of the artist group UNWETTER
2018 Project "The shooting of the insurgents". Tribute to Francisco de Goya
2019 project "Goya calls the spirits", artist group UNWETTER

Publications (selection)

2001 Video trailer: Cirque du Soleil, “Alegría” in Sydney
2012 Catalog "Traumatic Objectivity", Galerie Haus zum Wolf, Basel, CH
2014 The "10Artists4US" Tour Book, Miami, Palm Beach, New York
2014 catalog "ArtDesign Feldkirch"
2014 catalog "Seestrassengalerie Radolfzell", DE
2014 Journal "Nr.3", IBC Überlingen, DE
2014 catalog "Berlinerliste"
2014 weekly newspaper der Freitag, Culture Department Berlin
2015 Art Magazine Biancosuro
2015 Catalog "100x200", Galerie Kerstan, Backnang, DE
2015 Berlin Art Week 2015
2015 catalog "Berlinerliste 2015"
2015 Catalog "ARTe-Preview", Berliner Liste 2015
2015 Art magazine "Art & Auctions" June issue no.10
2015 Video Trailer: Rhy Art Fair Basel
2015 Video Trailer: Rhy Art Fair Basel
2015 Catalog "ArtPul", Pulheim, DE
2015 Journal "Nr.2", IBC Überlingen, DE
2015 catalog "KUNST MESSE FRANKFURT 15"
2015 Catalog "HAPPY BIRTHDAY 100x100", Galerie Kerstan, Backnang, DE
2016 Catalog Art Kamen, DE.
2016 Catalog "ArtPul Spot", Eupen, Belgium.
2017 Catalog 1st Biennale Pratteln , CH
2017 Catalog XIth. Florence Biennale, IT
2017 "Goya" catalog, Privat Press, DE
2017 art magazine "INSIDEART"
2018 catalog "The shooting of the insurgents". Homage to Francisco de Goya, REFLEX artist group
2018 catalog ART LINGEN, studio traces
2018 "CHAN LIU ART Museum MONTHLY", magazine
2018 " ART REVOLUTION TAIPEI ", CATALOG
2019 catalog Goya calls the spirits, artist group UNWETTER

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personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt-Muller, Joey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt-Muller, Joe (full name); Schmidt, Josef (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss-Australian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Allschwil