NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHY
Marc Schmitz is a Berlin-based artist and curator. He studied Philosophy and Fine Art in Munich and Berlin. In his artistic practice he’s mostly interested in the openness of space. 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 Biennale (2005), 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 like ifa, the Goethe Institute, the Art Council Korea, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. He was awarded with the first prize for Art For Expo 2000 World Expo in Hanover, Germany, and with the special prize of the jury at the 10th Cairo Biennial, and the Turgut Pura Art Prize at the Museum of Sculpture Izmir 2012, amongst others. In 2006 Marc Schmitz founded the Land Art Biennial in Mongolia (2010 / 2012). His recent artistic activities have focused on art and politics at the Museo Leopold Rother, Bogotá 2012. At the moment Schmitz is resident artist at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai.