Oskar Schmidt (artist)

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Oskar Schmidt (born October 6, 1977 in Erlabrunn ) is a contemporary German artist . He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig .

Life

From 1998 to 2002 Oskar Schmidt studied painting at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and, from 2002, photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art with Timm Rautert . From 2006 to 2008 he was its master student. In 2009 he received the Talents Award from C / O Berlin , in 2013 the Marion Ermer Award , in 2017 the scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and in 2018 a working scholarship from the Hans and Charlotte Krull Foundation .

Collections

  • Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
  • Daimler Art Collection
  • Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Andra Spallart Collection, Vienna
  • Zabludowicz Collection, London
  • Art collection of the Free State of Saxony
  • SØR Rusche collection
  • Collection C / O Berlin Foundation

Exhibitions (selection)

2018

  • Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
  • Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle
  • Tobias Naehring Gallery, Leipzig (Solo)

2017

  • C / O Berlin
  • The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina

2016

  • Gunzenhauser Museum Chemnitz (Solo)
  • Situation # 31, Fotomuseum Winterthur

2015

  • The Lives of Pictures: Forty Years of Collecting at the Center for Creative Photography - New Acquisitions / From the Vault, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson

2014

  • Conceptual and Applied III: Surfaces and Pattern, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin
  • The 2014 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Paris Photo, Paris, Aperture Foundation, New York
  • Photography: International. Video, mixed media, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart

2013

  • Marion Ermer Prize - The creation of visibility, Neues Museum Weimar (catalog)
  • Crossing Views photography from Leipzig, Marburger Kunstverein

2012

  • Still things, SØR Rusche collection, Liesborn Abbey Museum
  • Everywhere and Nowhere - Reydan Weiss Collection, Villa Jauss, Obersdorf (catalog)

2011

  • Leipzig. Photography since 1839, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (catalog)
  • Zabludowicz Collection - Recent Photography from Leipzig, Broadway 1500, New York

2010

  • Revenants: Photographs by Oskar Schmidt, Goethe-Institut, Washington
  • The Library of Babel - Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)
  • Art Collection Deutsche Börse - Talents 2009 - Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt / M.

2009

  • Revenants, C / O Berlin (solo, catalog)
  • CLOSE THE GAP - Leipzig Cotton Spinning Factory Exhibition Hall, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Municipal Gallery / Art Association Speyer (catalog)
  • Hab & Gut, Kunsthalle Rostock

Catalogs

  • The American Series , Ed. Matthias Harder, Berlin (Distance Verlag) 2014.
  • Ordinary World , Berlin (argobooks) 2013.
  • Revenants , Munich, Berlin (Deutscher Kunstverlag) 2009, (with an essay by Steffen Siegel ).
  • Attitudes of Posture , Hamburg (Textem Verlag), 2007.
  • Queens of Less , Leipzig (Galerie Kleindienst) 2007.

Literature (selection)

  • Steffen Siegel: "Revenants. Experimental arrangements with young women" / "Revenants. Experimental Configurations With Young Women". In: Oskar Schmidt, Steffen Siegel: Wiedergängerinnen , Munich, Berlin (Deutscher Kunstverlag) 2009, pp. 8–31. ISBN 978-3422068483

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SANDRO ANGELO PARROTTA: PARROTTA CONTEMPORARY ART STUTTGART BERLIN: Oskar Schmidt. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Marion Ermer Prize Winner: Probability is only staged . In: TLZ . ( tlz.de [accessed on August 26, 2018]).
  3. ↑ EHF scholarship holders S ..., talent promotion and culture, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . In: Konrad Adenauer Foundation . ( kas.de [accessed on August 26, 2018]).
  4. ↑ 2018/2019. In: Krull Foundation. Retrieved on July 16, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlabrunn