Erik Schmidt
German artist Erik Schmidt creates works that engage with symbolic processes within various social subsystems. Immersing himself in foreign contexts plays a significant role in his paintings, videos, photographs, and drawings. Throughout his work, Schmidt continues to consciously adopt the figure of the outsider, whether in the crowded urban landscape of Tokyo, the camps of the American Occupy movement, among wine and olive producers in the West Bank or the aristocratic hunting circles of his native North Rhine-Westphalia. This removed stance offers him a distinct insight into group dynamics and the various clichés, stereotypes, codes, rituals, norms, patterns, and conventions they all hold.
Erik Schmidt (b. 1968, Herford) lives and works in Berlin. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Artists Space, New York; MARTa Herford, Herford; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 03/24 Stevie Dix / Lexia Hachtmann / Friedemann Heckel / Erik Schmidt / Thomas Schütte / Jan Van Imschoot, MENSCHENBILD
- 04/23 Erik Schmidt, Mutanten
- 03/21 Tracey Emin / Nan Goldin / Paul Graham / Swetlana Heger / Gregor Hildebrandt / Maximilian Kirmse / Stephanie Kloss / Lindsay Lawson / Antje Majewski / Isa Melsheimer / Simon Mullan / Piotr Nathan / Magnus Plessen / Richard Prince / Laure Prouvost / Erik Schmidt / Katharina Sieverding / Dirk Skreber / Heidi Specker / Nasan Tur / Erik van Lieshout / Davide Zucco, ongoing schmidt pick
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 11/19 Aaron Garber-Maikovska / Luis Gordillo / Julie Mehretu / Edi Rama / Jessica Rankin / Amy Sillman / Janaina Tschäpe / Erik Schmidt, From Hand To Mind
- 06/19 Erik Schmidt, The Only Way Is Up
- 10/16 Erik Schmidt, Rays around you
- 06/14 Erik Schmidt, Blank
- 05/08 Erik Schmidt, Working the landscape
- 06/06 Erik Schmidt, Hunting Grounds
- 04/05 Erik Schmidt, Der schönste Jäger von Deutschland
- 07/03 Erik Schmidt, Suitwatcher\'s Anonymous
- 01/01 Erik Schmidt, Models Parking Cars