"POSSIBLE STANDING" Within the photographic work of Anita Schmid you find bodies staged as Objects in a certain space. The shown photographs were taken at the „Haus Lange“ in Krefeld/Germany. A building constructed by the Bauhaus Architect Mies van der Rohe. Rohe's work has been of artistic interest to Anita Schmid over the last years. The body approaches the sourrounding space. As an object it interacts and resonates with the space, adds to the different structures, complements, and becomes part of the space. The game with possible standings, positions, perspectives, and angles in an emotional or physical point of view stresses the geometry of body and space. Architecture and figure are allowed to merge - they cause each other. While the architecture is fixed the body finds itself in unusual positions. Configurations are generated at a certain moment in a certain space. Still, the body never is just an object. The unreal physical positions finds an emotional equivalent – internal conditions manifest in the external. The psychological discussion with the space is transported by the position of the body. The body's position emphasizes the linear structure of the Space.
Born 1982 in Vienna. Lives and works in Vienna.
EDUCATION
2013 2012 2007 2003
DIPLOM | ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA SINT LUCAS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS BRUSSELS KLASS OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY WITH MATTHIAS HERRMAN MARTIN GUTTMAN (CLEGG & GUTTMANN) STUDIES OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
PUBLIC COLLECTION
2014 2012 2010
NY STIPENDIUM | BMUKK PHOTOCOLLECTION OF THE BMUKK VIENNA PHOTOCOLLECTION OF THE BMUKK VIENNA
SOLOSHOW
2013 2012
- POSSIBLE STANDING - IMERSTEN (WWW.IMERSTEN.COM) - KOORDINATEN DES UNSICHTBAREN – EVERSHEDS - SPUREN VON SPUREN - KUNSTSALON JUTTA STOLITZKA (WWW.CONTEMP.AT)
EXHIBITIONS
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 200
- PARALELL VIENNA (WWW.PARALLELVIENNA.COM) - RUNDGANG - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA - LANDSCHAFTEN (WWW.CURART.AT) - TRANSMISSION (WWW.IMERSTEN.COM) - STILLSTAND UND BESCHLEUNIGUNG (WWW.AUSARTEN.A - BRUCENNIAL NYC(http://vitoschnabel.com/exhibitions/brucennial-2012 - SCHAUSPIELHAUS VIENNA - PROJECT SPACE VICTOR BUCHER - GALLERY MAX LUST VIENNA - RUNDGANG - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA - RUSSENVILLA TRAUNKIRCHEN - JENNYFAIR, VIENNA - RUNDGANG - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA - ALTE SALINE HALLEIN - GALLERY HILGER ANKERBROTFABRIK - SOUNDFRAME FESTIVAL - KÜNSTLERHAUS - VIENNA - RUNDGANG - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA - RUNDGANG - ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS VIENNA - „DIE ZELLE“ www.diezelle.net“ - PROJECTSPACE GRUNDSTEINGASSE 11