Biography:

Andreas Schmid (b. 1955, Stuttgart, Germany) is an independent curator, art critic and artist who lives and works in Berlin.

From 1983 to 1986, Schmid was a student in the Chinese Painting Department at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art), where he started collecting material about the ’85 New Wave movement. In 1993, he co-organized ‘China Avant-Garde’, a significant exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin, with Hans van Dijk from The Netherlands and Jochen Noth from Berlin. He was also one of the editors of the exhibition catalogue China Avant-Garde: Counter-Currents in Art and Culture, published in Hong Kong (1994).

Schmid writes extensively about contemporary Chinese art for several German and international art publications. In 2008, he collaborated with Dorothee Albrecht, Alf Lohr and Moira Zoitl on an art research project called ‘Dream of Art Spaces Collected’ for the Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) in cooperation with Deutscher Künstlerbund.