Helene Schmitz — Biographie — Slash Paris

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