Dierk Schmidt, born in Unna, Germany, in 1965, studied art history and visual arts in Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. He takes on the genre of history painting to investigate politics of representation, critically redescribing the production of the historical past and present. Dierk Schmidt has repeatedly worked on issues of colonial history, on restitution politics, international law, and on abstraction in painting, a main project being “The Division Of The Earth“ for documenta 12 in 2007. His analytical approach makes use of painting’s conceptual methods, self-reflexive on the issue of painting and capable of rationalizing representational gaps.

Schmidt´s work has been displayd in major solo and group exhibitions such as Kolonnen (KOW Berlin 2020), Guilts and Debts (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte reina, Sofia 2018) and Under Construction (Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin 2022), Painting and geopolitics (Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid 2021), COMMUNICATING VESSELS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid 2021).

Full Biography

• Out Of The Dark  ›  Jun 26 – Jul 31, 2016

• Broken Windows 6.3  ›  Mar 12 – Apr 16, 2016

• Stadtschlawinereien  ›  Sep 7 – Nov 9, 2019

• OUT OF THE DARK II  ›  May 23 – Aug 15, 2020

• KOLONNEN - hohenzollern ist jetzt ein Verb  ›  Nov 20, 2020 – Jan 30, 2021

• ARTISSIMA 2021  ›  Nov 5 – Nov 7, 2021

• ART DÜSSELDORF 2019  ›  Nov 15 – Nov 17, 2019

• VIENNA CONTEMPORARY 2019  ›  Sep 27 – Sep 29, 2019

• ARCO MADRID 2019  ›  Feb 27 – Mar 3, 2019

• ARTISSIMA TURIN 2018  ›  Nov 2 – Nov 4, 2018

• ARCO MADRID 2018  ›  Feb 21 – Feb 25, 2018

• CODE ART FAIR 2017  ›  Aug 31 – Sep 3, 2017

• ART BRUSSELS 2017  ›  Apr 21 – Apr 23, 2017

• ARTSSIMA TURIN 2016  ›  Nov 3 – Nov 6, 2016

• VIENNA CONTEMPORARY 2016  ›  Sep 22 – Sep 25, 2016

• ART COLOGNE 2016  ›  Apr 14 – Apr 17, 2016

• ART BASEL 2021  ›  Sep 7, 2021 –