Berlin, Berlin, Germany
www.andreasschmidtgalerie.com Andreas Schmidt is a Berlin based gallerist and artist whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2005 German fine art and photography book publisher Hatje Cantz published his first hard-back monograph entitled 'Las Vegas' to international critical acclaim. Described by J.G. Ballard as "the poet of the hotel corridor", his second book, 'The City' was published by Hatje Cantz in 2009. Schmidt was a founding member of ABC, Artists' Books Cooperative, in early 2010 but left the coop in 2014. In 2013 he launched GESAMTBUCHKUNSTWERKSKULPTUR, a custom-made shelving unit containing 77 self published artist's books, at art book fair Offprint Paris. His artist book 'The Time Machine' was included in the group exhibition A History of Photography: Series and Sequences at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2015 which also featured work by August Sander, Eadweard Muybridge and Lewis Baltz among others. Schmidt's artist book 'The Cost of Photobooks: A History Volume II' was listed by Le Monde as one of the 10 best photo books of 2011. Schmidt's work is held in a number of private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France, Centre Des Livres Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA and the Bavarian State Library. Schmidt is a regular guest speaker and panelist at institutions like the Photographers’ Gallery, London and Le Bal, Paris and has given illustrated talks at museums such as FoMu Antwerp and Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester as well as Christie's New York. He has been a visiting lecturer at numerous universities, both in the UK and internationally such as The New School, New York, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Brighton University, Colchester University, London College of Communication, Camberwell College of Art and Nottingham Trent University.
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