Helene Schmitz Biography

STUDIES

1997
  • Theory of Art at the Academy of Arts, Konstfack, Stockholm
1995
  • Summer Intensive Film Workshop, NYU, New York
1983-88
  • B.A. at the Stockholm University in Film and Art Theory

SOLO SHOWS (a selection)

2013
  • Kudzu project, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
  • En annan Natur, Rättviks konsthall, Rättvik, Sweden
  • En annan Natur, Abecita Konstmuseum (Abecita museum of art), Borås, Sweden
  • Mariatorget, subway station in central Stockholm, Public art show
2012
  • Kristinehamns Konstmuseum (Kristinehamn Museum of Art), Sweden
2011
  • Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm
  • Fotografiska, Stockholm
2010
  • Sunken gardens — Carnivores, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris
  • Transfotografia, Gdansk, Poland
2008
  • The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast

2007

  • Galleri Leger, Malmö, Sweden
  • Photo Fair, Nacka Strand, Sweden
  • National Museum, Prague
  • Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
  • Jardin des Plantes, National Museum of Natural History, Paris
  • National Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
  • National Science Museum, Tokyo
2003
  • Galleri Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2000
  • Galleri Leger, Malmö, Sweden
  • Bildhuset, Stockholm
1998
  • Galleri L. A. Umeå, Sweden
1996
  • Galleri Leger, Malmö, Sweden
  • Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm
1995
  • Åbo konservatorium, Åbo, Finland
1993
  • Fotomässan, Göteborg, Sweden
  • Dansmuseet, Stockholm

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
  • The Flood wall II Exp 12, Berlin
  • Ljungbergmuséet, Ljungby, Sweden
2012
  • Market Stockholm
  • Boutographies “La projection du jury”, Montpellier
2011
  • The fence, Berlin
  • En annan historia — fotografi ur Moderna Museets samling, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
  • Sunken gardens — Carnivores, Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, “Arts and Nature”
2010
  • Transphotographiques, Palais Rameau, Lille
  • Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2007
  • CFF, Stockholm
2005
  • Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell (Scandinavien Photography), USA
2004
  • Felleshaus, Berlin
  • Maison de la Culture, Conches, France
  • Hallwylska Museet, Stockholm
2001
  • Dansmuseet, Stockholm
1998
  • Edsvik Konst och Kultur Insyn, Stockholm
1997
  • Galerie Biever-Risch, Luxembourg
1996
  • Svenska Kulturinstitutet, Paris (Mois de la Photo)
  • Kalmar Konsthall
1995
  • Peri, Center of Photography, Åbo, Finland
1994-96
  • Travelling exhibition in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and USA
1991-92
  • Travelling exhibition in Equador, Guatemala and Honduras
1991
  • Museum of Modern Art, (Lika Med) Stockholm
  • 150th anniversary of photography Stockholm

PUBLICATIONS

2011
  • Ur Regnskogens Skugga (Max Ström), Swedish
2009
  • Aux origines de la sexualité, Pierre-Henri Goyon (Fayard)
2008
  • Linné, Le rêve de l’ordre dans la Nature (Editions Belin)
2007
  • A Passion for Systems (Natur och Kultur)
  • System och Passion (Natur och Kultur)
  • A Passion for Systems (Natur och Kultur) in Japanese
2003
  • Blow Up (Natur och Kultur)
1998
  • Mirages (exhibition catalogue)
1996
  • Livingrooms (exhibition catalogue)

REPRESENTED BY

  • The national Public Art Council, Sweden
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm
  • Cultural Department of Stockholm County Council, the new Karolinska Hospital (Kulturförvaltningen Stockholms Läns Landsting, nya Karolinska sjukhuset, Sweden)

PRIZES

2013

Finalist of le Prix de la Photo Camera Clara 2013, Paris

2012
  • The book Ur regnskogens skugga- Daniel Rolander och resan till Surinam is nominated for the Swedish August Prize
  • The book Ur regnskogens skugga- Daniel Rolander och resan till Surinam wins The Publishing prize in Sweden
2008
  • The book System och passion-Linné och drömmen om Naturens Ordning is awarded with a diploma from Svensk Bokkonst (Royal Swedish Library)
    Extremely beautiful photographs and a design that creates a serene context
2007
  • The book System och passion-Linné och drömmen om Naturens Ordning wins The Publishing prize in Sweden
2003

T* he book Blow up is nominated to the Swedish literary prize August Prize

OTHER

2004
  • Helene Schmitz is one of the founders of a Swedish Magazine for Contemporary Photography MOTIV
  • Helene Schmitz has been teaching photography at Beckmans, Stockholm

Helene Schmitz

Contemporary

Photography

Swedish artist born in 1960 in Sweden. 

Localisation
Stockholm, Sweden
Website
Official website