Biography
Doris Schmid, born in 1974 in Switzerland, is a visual artist in the fields of video, installation and photography. She studied painting and video/new media in Basel and Zurich. Since 2000 she has conceived numerous exhibitions, art projects, screenings, projects with musicians/performers and participated in video festivals. The artist lived in Vienna from 2002 to 2012 and has since then been based in Berlin. Doris Schmid has received various prizes for her work (including Videotage Basel, Kunstpreis NAB, shift Festival elektronischer Künste Basel, Short List Medienkunstpreis Sehnerv) and studio grants in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Nairs and Japan.
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Exhibitions (Selection)
- 2021 short list Medienkunstpreis PROGR, Bern (CH)
- New Music/Intermedia Art, Stockholm (SE)
- liaisons sonores, Echoraum, Wien (AT)
- 2020 Video Art Screening, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich (CH)
- 2019 Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin (DE)
- Galerie Pass: Project Grölle, Wuppertal (DE)
- 2018 Ortnungen, Biennale für aktuelle Musik, Bremen (DE)
- I Between Reality & Illusion, Keio University, Tokyo (JP)
- 2017 SCHÖNE NACHT, Kunstverein, Neuhausen (DE)
- Entre realidade e ilusão, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (BRA)
- Artists` book for Everything, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (DE)
- 2014 Directors Lounge Berlin – contemporary media and art, Berlin (DE)
- Dunkle Zeiten Musikfestival, Wien (AT)
- HOME, MAGMA Contemporary Space, Sfantu Gheorghe (RO)
- Experimental Video Art Exhibition, BACC Bangkok (TH)
- 2013 steirischer herbst, Graz (AT)
- BLINK Esszimmer, Bonn/Videonale (DE)
- im ausland Videowindow, Zürich (CH)
Festivals
- Belgrad Filmfestival (RS)
- Motovun Filmfestival Zagreb (HR)
- B16 Videofestival Brno (CZ)
- experimental video art Chiangmai Uni (TH)
- Biennale de l`ìmage en mouvement, Genf (CH)
- shiftfestival Basel (CH)
- Videomedeja Videofestival NoviSad (RS)
- Experimental, Xenix, Zürich (CH)
- Film- und Videotage Basel (CH)
- Filmfest Dresden (DE)
- VIPER Luzern (CH)
- Solothurner Filmtage (CH)
- Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (CH)
- Videoex, Zürich (CH)
- Regensburger Filmwoche (DE)
- Palicfilmfestival (PR)
- emaf european media art festival, Osnabrück (DE)
- Thai Experimental Video Art, Bankok (TH)
- Instantvideo Marseille (FR)
- backup festival,Weimar (DE)
- Screenfestival,Oslo (NO)
- Diagonale, Graz (AT)
- Videofestival Crosstalk, Budapest (HU)
- Videonale Bonn (DE)
- Athens Videoartfestival, Athen (GR)
- Directors Lounge,Berlin (DE)
- Videoartfestival Berlin (DE)
- MitteMediaFestival,Berlin (DE)
- Filmfestival Tampere (FI)
Projects (Selection)
- 2020 zimtblau, sandrot, obsidian und purpurgold (mit Eunice Martins)
- Hörspiele mit Video für Radio Anja (mit Eunice Martins)
- 2015 HINTERS LICHT Foto/Text Projekt with Klaus Merz
- 2013 blanks – Stageprojection, Composer: Katharina Klement (AT), Music: ensemble recherche (DE), Musikprotokoll Graz (CH)
- 2011 HOLE music new media performance
- ArtStays 9 International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj (SLO)
- 2008 gleiche höhe Kunst-Projekt, Wien (AT)
Works in public collections (Selection)
- Collection of the niederösterreichischen Landesmuseum
- National collections Austria, Kulturdepot St. Pölten
- Video Edition Austria – release 02, Medienwerkstatt Wien
- Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv Belvedere Wien
- Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe