source: marcschmitznet
Marc Schmitz is a German artist based in Berlin. He explores the foundations of the different media that he is in use with, by challenging their limits. His works convey sensuality and thought, inviting the viewer to enter into a mutually constructive dialogue, while addressing the limitless space with all of the viewer’s basic senses. His works have been exhibited internationally, are represented in private and public collections and have been remarked with several international awards.

Artist Statement

Any typical space is constructed by typical social conditions. Every part of our consciousness is included therein. Images of space are dreams of society.

My recent projects have focused on finding and interpreting unclaimed or contested/bare public space(s), and on reading the importance of the spatial relationship to both personal and shared-cultural memory. The stories told in those blank spaces reveal alternate possibilities for the human experience – and particularly our experience of urban zones. My work is oriented toward the public sphere, is collaborative more than it is ‘interactive,’ relies on ethnographic and art-historical research, and takes advantage of both contemporary and historical forms of artistic media.
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source: art-report
Marc Schmitz is a Berlin-based artist and director of Land Art Mongolia-LAM 360°. He studied Philosophy and Fine Art in Munich and Berlin. In his artistic practice he’s mostly interested in the openness of space while he uses a variety of media and materials.

Over the last decade Marc Schmitz has developed art projects internationally. On the occasion of the Busan Biennial (2004) he developed a walk-in sculpture that allowed for a new and unusual experience of space within a vibrant environment. Afterwards, Schmitz exhibited at the Beijing Biennial (2005), in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia, and at the Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Latvia (2008), the Zendai MoMA in Shanghai and Land/Art New Mexico U.S. In 2009 he exhibited in the Academy of Arts, Baku Azerbaijan and was the artist-in-residence at Yatoo in Korea, and in 2010 in Australia at the Concert Hall of Perth.

He received support by institutions as the ifa, the Goethe Institute, the Art Council Korea, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation a.o.. He was awarded with the first prize for Art For Expo 2000 World-Expo in the German House in N.Y., with the special prize of the jury at the 10th Cairo Biennial, and the Turgut Pura Art Prize at the Museum of Sculpture in Izmir 2012, amongst others.

His recent artistic activities have focused on art and politics at the Museo Leopold Rother, Bogota 2012, a residency at the Peace Art Hotel in China (2012) that he succeeded with a solo exhibition at Moproo in Shanghai (2013). This year Marc Schmitz was also represented at the 55th. Venice Biennial and sculpture by the sea in Aarhus, Denmark and Gallery Seitz & Partner Berlin.