1955 born in Stuttgart, has been living and working as a visual artist, curator and expert for contemporary art in the P.R. of China in Berlin since 1987


Education
1974 – 1981 studies at the academy of fine arts Stuttgart
1983 – 1984 studies of Chinese language at the language institute, Beijing
1984 – 1985 studies of Chinese calligraphy, calligraphy history, history of fine arts and seal carving at the Zhejiang academy of fine arts, Hangzhou
Member of "Deutscher Künstlerbund" (DKB), of "Internationales Künstlergremium" (IKG) and member of the board of trustees of "Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste" (IGBK).


Solo exhibitions
2021
Turning, in: ONE OF EACH #4 — TOKYO RUNE feat Daimler Art Collection: Irène Hug & Andreas Schmid, LAGE EGAL, Berlin
2020
Haitte - zu Besuch, Taut Haus, Berlin, Andreas Schmid and Julia Ziegler
2019
Flow and Form, Neckarhalle, Schwenningen
2018
Light_Painting #3, Kunstverein Schöningen, installation Andreas Schmid in collaboration with Elisabeth Sonneck; WeitSicht 2018, VR Bank Enz, Remchingen; Querungen, Kunstverein Meißen (with Ina Abuschenko, Eberswalde); Colour Field Chemnitz 2018, art in public spaces, commissioned work, permanent light installation with programmed cycles, Art collections Chemnitz, Germany

2017
Light_Painting #2, Pavilion at Milchhof, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, space related installation (light and painting) in collaboration with Elisabeth Sonneck
2016
Vis-à-Vis mit Adolf Fleischmann: Hartmut Böhm und Andreas Schmid, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin
2015
Relation, Kleiner Schlossplatz, Stuttgart, Lichtkunst mit 19 angesteuerten Lichtmodulen mit weißen LEDs, 6113 x 443 cm
2013
Verschränkungen - Farbe, Licht, Raum, Elisabeth Sonneck - Andreas Schmid, Guardini Galerie Berlin
2011
Archipele, galerie weisser elefant Berlin; Slide, Neuer Giessener Kunstverein
2010
Andreas Schmid- ...sondern dass sie ist, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin
2009
Clearings, Stiftung Domnick/Domnick Foundation, Nürtingen; Space.Drawing: Intersection, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen
2007
Locations, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; stark02, Starkow; 3 Locations, Museum für gegenstandsfreie Kunst Otterndorf
2006
Correspondance, Galerie Ombre et Lumiere, Saint Maló
2005
Andreas Schmid, Zeichnungen, Installationen, Galerieverein Leonberg; Schnittstelle Raum – ein Dialog, Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn; Flutgraben – Grenze, 2yk-Galerie, Berlin; Survey, Frühsorge Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin
2002
Space Poem, Goethe Institute Kalkutta und Hong Kong mit der Schriftstellerin Ulrike Draesner, Berlin; Andreas Schmid – Installationen, SWR Stuttgart
2000
L`architecture, l`espace construit, Centre d‘Art Passerelle, Brest; Bühnenbild/Installation zum Theaterstück Fluchtversuche, Experimentaltheater DURAS, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1999
Adjustment, Galerie am Prater, Berlin; Installation im Locker, Plant Studio und Außenarbeit auf dem Gelände der Chinati Foundation, Marfa, USA
1998
Zwischen Zeiten, Audiovisuelles Projekt with the polish Composer Macieij Zoltowski, Schloß Rheinsberg; Rythmes Transparents, 3 parallel exhibitions: Le Grand Cordel, Galerie Ikkon and Galerie Ombre & Lumière / Rennes;; Wechselnde Geschwindigkeiten, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck
1996
Kannst Du mal die Skulptur nach Norden halten, Performance mit Claude Horstmann, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
1990
Zwischenräume, Galerie im Heppächer, Esslingen/N
1981
Andreas Schmid – Malerei, Junge Reihe, von-der-Heydt-Museum Wuppertal

Group exhibitions
2022
Jubilee X, Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, Frontviews at HAUNT, Berin; Anonymous Drawings 2022, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin; non plus ultra, Galerie im Stammelbach-Speicher, Hildesheim
2021
Empyrium, in: As in heaven..., galerie weisser elefant, Berlin; Stairwell drawing, CHARTA#1-Movement and Space, frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin
2020
6 out of 192..., Oqbo, Gallery for vision and sound, Berlin; Ausgefallen?, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin; ???=!!!, Museum für gegenstandsfreie Kunst, Otterndorf
2019
Atmospheric Events, James Geurts, Andreas Schmid, Christine Sciulli as part of RESPONSIVE: International Light Art Project, Dalhousie Art Museum, Halifax, Canada; China‘s old silkroad – a caleidoscope, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam; Pages/Spaces, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, a project of „Linienscharen“, Hospitalhof Stuttgart
presentation and display of artist books, Stuttgart
; Flüchtige Entwürfe, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
2017
Revolution in Redyellowblue - Gerrit Rietfeld and the Contemporary Art,, MARTa, Herford, Germany ; DRAWING INTO SPACE - delinating-compressing-leaving marks, Gallery North - Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; On the Subject of Ready-Made or Using a Rembrandt as an Ironing Board, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
2016
Reductio AD., space installation in the frame of the exhibition "Sein.Antlitz.Körper- Kirchen öffnen sich der Kunst", St Adalbert, Berlin; Double movement, Schaufenster, Berlin; EUROPE, Red Carpet, U-Bahnhof Bundestag, Berlin; Ascents, Stuttgart and surrounding locations
2015
Aussenhaut - Innensicht, Kunstverein KISS, Schloss Untergröningen; Wir können auch anders!, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf; Schrift/Nicht-Schrift, (Shufeishu), Museum Hangzhou, VR China
2014
Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Salon du Dessin, Paris
2013
ITINERAIRES, carte blanche a Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge, espace despalles, Paris; Novecento mai visto, - Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection - From Albers to Warhol to (now), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italien
2012
Blätterwald oder die Quintessenz des Buches, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin; Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012 - Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum, Ladestraße und Park am Gleisdreieck Berlin, Burggalerie im Volkspark, Halle/Saale
2011
art & stars & cars, Mercedes-Benz- Museum Stuttgart; Nach Strich und Faden, Kunsthaus Potsdam
2010
Rampe, Parkhaus Projects Berlin; Lichtungen 2 / Wien, Bilder über Bilder – Diskursive Malerei von Albers bis Zobernig, Daimler Kunstsammlung, MUMOK, Wien
2008
Modelle - Materialisierung von Konzepten, Deutscher Künstlerbund Projektraum; Kunst-Werte-Gesellschaft, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2007
Project workshop for Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, with Dorothee Albrecht and Moira Zoitl at Deutschen Künstlerbundes Berlin
2006
Das Schicksal des Paradieses liegt in seiner Geometrie, Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V.; Hauptsache wir bleiben zusammen, Frühsorge - Galerie für Zeichnung, Berlin; Globalisierung und nationale Identität in der Bildenden Kunst, Symposien und Ausstellungen an der Zentralen Kunstakademie Beijing und der Anhui Normal University in Wuhu
2005
Entourage de ? – Klasse Paul Uwe Dreyer!, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
2004
Comme un serpent qui danse, Sympra, Stuttgart
2002
Sieben Stücke für einen Raum, Space installation in cooperation with the composer Isabel Mundry / DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
2001
Art Meets Innovation – The Now, T-Nova Berkom, Berlin; Kunst am Bau – Die Bauten des Bundes in Berlin, Ehemaliges Staatsratsgebäude, Berlin; Synchronize, Time based Art from China and Germany, 1aspace, Hong Kong
2000
Kunst und Technologie, Berliner Künstler, Hagener Technologiezentrum, Hagen
1999
Body and Urbanism, Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Berlin und London, Internationales Kulturelles Zentrum, Tirana, Albanien
1998
Fotografie als Konzept / Photography as Concept, . Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen/N.; Untersicht, galerie weisser elefant, Berlin

Grants (selection)
2022
Fellowship of the documenta Institute for interkultural exchange, Tandem I - talk atdocumenta 15 with Carol Yinghua Lu, Beijing and members of the collektive Crèmbach/ Gruppe ohne Maßstab in the framework of CAMP ON VACATION;
2013
Project facilitation , by "Lottogesellschaft Berlin" for the exibition "Die 8 der Wege- Kunst in Beijing", 2014 in the rooms of Uferhallen, Berlin-Wedding (curated for "Gesellschaft für Kulturellen Austausch (GeKA) together with T. Eller, Berlin and Guo Xiaoyan, Beijing)
2010
Projektförderung, facilitation by the Senate of Berlin for the project "Open Academy 2010" in Vietnam together with the artist Veronika Radulovic
2008
Grant, for the project Dreams of art Spaces Collected (D. Albrecht, A.Löhr, M. Zoitl, A. Schmid) by the Institute for Foreign Relationships (ifa) Germany
2000
3-months - Artist in Residency, at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; grant of Kulturfonds Berlin
1983
Grant of the German Exchange Service (DAAD), for studies in the P.R. of China. Studies of Chinese Calligraphy, Calligraphy History and Seal Carving at the Chinese Art Academy Hangzhou (until 1986)

Art in Public Spaces
2021
Detour, space related drawing, Marta Open Air, outside area Marta Herford, 15.05.2021 - 1.10.2021
2020
Momentum , site specific permanent wall drawing,
in the staircase of Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
2019
Flow and Form, permanent, multi-cyclical lightart, Neckarhalle, Villingen-Schwenningen
2018
Colourfield Chemnitz, Chemnitz 2018, permanent multi-cyclical lightart, entry of Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
2015
Relation, permanent Light Art, 19 energized light modules with white LEDs, 6113 x 443 cm, placed at Kleiner Schlossplatz, Stuttgart, Germany
2009
Colour Field Chemnitz, Chemnitz 2009/10, lightart for the 100th anniversary of the Art Collections Chemnitz (September 2009 – July 2010)
2008
weiss-weiss-rot-blau, permanent light installation in the staircase of the main administrative building of Daimler, Stuttgart / Untertürkheim
2007
Pas des Neuf, light signal on the walls of the Museum für gegenstandsfreie Kunst, Otterndorf
2006
Drift, permanent controllable light art in a public passage of an extension of the Rathauscenter Pankow/Berlin
2005
Echo, permanent space installation in the rooms of TU Cottbus; Driftwood, permanent, multicyclical light art composition on the ceiling of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart made of 167 neon tubes;
implemented in 2004/2005
2003
Lichtkomposition für 20 Leuchtstoffröhren, permanent work at Mercedes-Benz Center, München
2001
Forest I; Forest II, Coloured Photograph on screen, placed in "Großer Sitzungssaal des Bundesministeriums für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft", Berlin; realised in Jan. 2001

Curating
2022
onAIRISM 2022 - interaction and connectivity, online workshop and upcoming digital conference (with Maria Linares and Moira Zoitl) for Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (www.igbk.de)
2021
onAIRISM 2021- challenges and transitions, online workshop and digital conference (with Maria Linares and Moira Zoitl) for Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (www.igbk.de)
2019
China‘s old silkroad – a kaleidoscope, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam,
with S. Jung, D. Nold, Qiu Zhijie, A.Schmid, B. Terfloth, B.Wehrli and a presentation of M. Schaich of Uigurian contemporary art as a loop. Accompagnying talks and performances: Eva Luedi, M. Schaich, M. Strittmatter, B.Wehrli
2018
Consultant for Contemporary Chinese Art at Daimler Art collection, Berlin , since 2012, Andreas Schmid is the consultant for Chinese Contemporary Art at Daimler Art Collection, Berlin.
2014
The 8 of Paths - Art in Beijing, Uferhallen, Berlin-Wedding, exhibition for the 20th anniversary of the partnership between the city of Berlin and Beijing together with 23 artists living in Beijing of the age between 28 and 44 years, curated together with Thomas Eller, Berlin and Guo Xiaoyan, Beijing.
Exhibition 30.04.2014-13.07.2014
; Weiß denken- Schwarz schreiben, exhibition from the workshop for chinese calligraphy 2004-2014 at the HfbK Dresden, Galerie Brühlsche Terasse
2013
Das Bild hinter dem Bild - Zur Lage der Kunst in China, conversations, presentations and workshops in collaboration with chinese and european artists and curators. Curated in cooperation with Bignia Wehrli for the UdK Berlin and the HKW Berlin
2011
Artists in Transit, Symposium together with the artist Annette Hollywood for IGBK in cooperation with the art academy Berlin Weißensee, the "Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen" (ifa) and the "holländischen Beratervereinigung".
2010
Open Academy II, Co-working with the artist Veronika Radulovic in Hannoi, Hue and Ho-Chi Minh City to realise a project for the German-Vietnam Year.
German participants: 10 artists living in Berlin
2007
Dreams of Art Spaces Collected , Organization and execution of a workshop as a part of a project with the same name together with the artists Dorothee Albrecht and Moira Zoitl for IGBK Berlin.
2003
Sitting in China, Exhibition made by Michael Wolf, a photographer living in Hong Kong
Kestner-Museum, Hannover
2001
The artists' voice, Organization and execution of the symposium in cooperation with Michael Kress, living in Hamburg, in collaboration with the "Akademie der Künste Berlin" and the "Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen" (ifa) for the IGBK, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1997
Contemporary Photo Art from China, Contemporary Photo Art aus der VR China, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) Berlin, Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Chemnitz (1998)
1993
China Avantgarde, House of World Cultures, Berlin (with Hans van Dijk and Jochen Noth. Curator for the following venues Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (GB) and Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (DK),
28.01.1993-15.05.1993


Teaching
2022
Docentship for Chinese Calligraphy, HfBK Dresden (seit 2005)
2019
Lectureship for , AKM Klasse for the summer semester at the SRH college Berlin; workshop for chinese calligraphy at the department for art history at the FU-Berlin; Collage Workshops, Daimler Contemporary Berlin
2018
Lectureship Lectureship for, AKM Klasse for the summer semester at the SRH college Berlin; workshop for chinese calligraphy at the department for art history at the FU-Berlin; Artist workshop, Artist workshop on the „Überflogenen Weiß“ at Collection Hegenbarth, Berlin; Workshops, workshops for Chinese Calligraphy and Filmscreening of Contemporary Chinese artists at Daimler Art Collection Berlin; Calligraphy workshop, Calligraphy workshop at HdBK Dresden; Lectureship, Lectureship for„General Applied Studies –Fine Arts“ for the summer term at SRH school of higher education, Berlin
2017
Lecture on Contemporary Chinese Art, lecture on Contemporary Chinese Art at XV. BERLINER DIALOG, Chinese Embassy Berlin; Filmscreening , Filmscreening of Contemporary Chinese artists at Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart Möhringen; Workshop for chinese calligraphy , Workshop for chinese calligraphy at Linienscharen, Wilhelmstraße Stuttgart ; Lectures , lectures on the topic of "the development of international light art" and "Chinese Contemporary Chinese Art of the 80`s and 90`s at the Academy of Fine Arts and school of higher education for Music in Chengdu, Sichuan province, VR China; Lectureship, Lectureship for „General Applied Studies –Fine Arts“ during the summer term at SRH school for higher education, Berlin; Workshop for Chinese Calligraphy , Workshop for Chinese Calligraphy at the department of Art History, FU Berlin
2016
Art Workshops, Second international workshop, over the period of three weeks, for art in public spaces at the art academy of Chongging, Sichuan/ China

2015
Art Workshops Konfuzius-Institut Bremen, until 2016 Workshops for Chinese calligraphy at the Konfuzius-Institut Bremen
2014
Art Workshop Burg Halle, Chinese calligraphy workshop at art academy Burg Giebichenstein, Halle
2010
Open Academy_Art Workshops, Workshops, dealing with light and space, carried out at the art academies of Hanoi and Ho-Chi-Minh-City, Vietnam
2005
Guest professor at the University of Paderborn, guest professor at the University of Paderborn, sculptural department
2003
Lectureship at HfBK Dreasden, until 2004 Guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden for positions of Contemporary Chinese Art, (with S. Tasch, PhD Berlin)
2001
Guest professor at the University Gießen, until 2003, guest professor for Contemporary Arts and Practise of Art at the University of Gießen;