Carita Schmidt
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→ 2023 MAGIC ICON, Chãteau Nico Lazaridi Winery, Drama, GRE
→ 2021 ARTfolio 2021, A Curated Collection of the World's Most Exiting Artist
→ 2020 Capsules Book, Volumen2, Leaders in Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
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Two Artist Exhibition
2023
→ Golden Constellations (together with Margarete Weidling-Roehse),
→ Galerie Feuerfarben, Berlin, GER
Solo Exhibitions
2025
→ EXPANDING WORLDS: Mapping Space and Time, Gallery Kunst 40, Berlin, GER
2022
→ Panta Rhei, Project Room 5, Kulturamt Reinickendorf, Berlin
2021
→ Zwischen den Welten, Autorengalerie 1, München, GER
2019
→ Online exhibition at Svenska Konstnärer, SWE
2015
→ Morningyellow, Scandic Berlin/Galerie Kuhn & Partner, Berlin, GER
2013
→ Tod, Liebe, Leben, Kulturhuset Multeum, Strängnäs, SWE
2011
→ Adamah/Frictions, Sigtuna Kulturgård, SWE
2010
→ Frequencies, Orfeos 20 Gallery, Xanthi, GRE
2006
→ Mo-Ve-Ments, Archaeological Museum Kavala, GRE
→ Paintings, Pristireo, Metallion, Limenaria, Thassos, GRE
→ Paintings, Kalogeriko, Limenas, Thassos, GRE
2001
→ Adamah, Old Archaeological Museum, Geni Tzami, Thessaloniki, GRE
1995
→ Metamorphosis, Municipal Tobacco Warehouse, Kavala, GRE
1994
→ Luna Park, Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki, GRE
1991
→ Association for the Friends of Art and Literature, Kavala, GRE
Group Exhibitions
2024
→ INTERPLAY: Geometric Abstractions, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach, LA, USA
→ Südwestpassage Kultour, Open Studios, Berlin, GER
2023
→ DreiWeltFarben, Gallery Kunstzentrum Tegel- Süd, Berlin, GER
2022
→ Collective Memory, Art Spring Pop up Shop, Schönhauser Allee Arcaden, Berlin, GER
2021
→ Südwestpassage Kultour, Open Studios, Berlin, GER
→ Artbox.Project World 1.0, Artbox/Projects, Zürich, CHE
2020/21
→ A lot can happen in a year, d I a I c concepts, virtual group exhibition, Miami, USA
2020
→ Bilder, Briefe, Noten CII, Autorengalerie 1, München, GER
→ An Overwhelming Experience: The Human-Earth Relationship, d I a I c concepts, virtual group exhibition, Miami, USA
→ Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Bestimmte und freie Automatismen in der aktuellen Kunst, Berlin, DE
2019
→ Südwestpassage Kultour, Open Studios, Berlin, GER
→ New artworks, Graphothek Berlin, Rathaus-Galerie Reinickendorf, GER
2018
→ Kultour 2018, Open Studios, Friedenau, GER
→ Nacht und Tag, Gueststudio at Weddinger Gerichtshöfe, Berlin, GER
→ FormArt, 26. International Art Exhibition, Glinde, GER
→ "11 stellen sich vor", Kunstamt Reinickendorf, Berlin, GER
→ Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Monday Art Salon, Chapter 10, Berlin, GER
2017
→ Gueststudio at Weddinger Gerichtshöfe, Lange Nacht, Berlin, GER
→ München 29th Open Art, Galerie Dirk Halverscheid, München, GER
→ Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Dirk Halverscheid, München, GER
2016
→ SWEA Art International, Gallery Engleson, Gothenburg, SWE
→ My Blue My Yellow, Wenngarns Slott, Sigtuna, SWE
2015
→ Höstsalong 2015, Edsvik Konsthall, Sollentuna, SWE
2013
→ B.AGL Kunstmesse, International Mall, Berlin, GER
2012
→ Renaissance der Gesichter, Philip Johnson House, Berlin, GER
2012
→ Blickpunkte II, Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin, GER
2010
→ Gallery Aenaon, S.K.E.T.B.E., Athens, GRE
2009
→ Gallery Orfeos 20, Xanthi, GRE
2008
→ Diadromes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki GRE
→ Diadromes, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Naousa, GRE
→ Thalassa, Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, GRE
2007
→ Genius Loci, Municipal Tobacco Warehouse Kavala, GRE
→ Diadromes, Archaeological Museum Kavala, GRE
→ Orfeos 20 Gallery, Xanthi, GRE
2006
→ 111+1 Artists, Society for Macedonian Studies, Thessaloniki, GRE
2005
→ International Biennale for Miniature Painting, Niksik, MNE
2004
→ 99+1, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Gallery Rarity, Mykonos, GRE
2003
→ DIMITRIA, Society for Macedonian Studies, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Seventh International Biennale for Miniature Painting, Milanovac, SRB
→ Gallery IOS, Athens, GRE
2002
→ Gallery IOS, Athens, GRE
2001
→ Gallery Lewis Wexler, Philadelphia, USA
→ Gallery Artower, Athens, GRE
→ Cultural May 2001, Municipal Tobacco Warehouse, Kavala, GRE
2000
→ Municipal Art Gallery, S.K.E.T.B.E., Lamia, GRE
→ Centre for Contemporary Art, Larissa, GRE
→ Gallery Aenaon, Miniature Painting, Athens, GRE
→ Old Archaeological Museum Geni Tzami, Thessaloniki, GRE
1999
→ Municipal Cultural House, Stavroupolis, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Days of Poetry and Art, Akontisma, Nea Karvali, GRE
→ Art Gallery Anemos, Athens, GRE
→ Ianos, Miniature Painting, Thessaloniki, GRE
1998
→ Gallery Griepen, Karlstad, SE
→ Greek Cultural Center, Stockholm, SE
→ Art Gallery Zina Athanasiadou, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Society for Macedonian Studies, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Art Gallery Makridi, Thessaloniki, GRE
1997
→ Gazi, Athens, GRE
→ Gallery Armos, Serres, GRE
1996
→ Municipal Cultural Center Moni Lazariston, Stavroupolis, GRE
1993
→ Petite Picture Gallery Diagonios, Thessaloniki, GRE
1992
→ Art Gallery Aenaon, Athens, GRE
1991
→ Petite Picture Gallery Diagonios, Thessaloniki, GRE
1991
→ Eleftheria, Municipality of Kavala, GRE
Performance
2001
→ Adamah III, performed with the dancers Margarita Mandaka and Ilias Tsakonas at Old Archeological Museum Geni Tzami, Thessaloniki, GRE
2000
→ Adamah II, performed and filmed at the Ancient Archaeological Site of Philippi in Northern Greece with the dancers Xanthippi Papadopoulou and Marios Anagnostakis. Philippi is the most important archeological site in Northern Greece.
1999
→ Adamah I, performed with the dancers Sonia Savolidou, Eleni Kotsikari at Nea Karvali Art Festival, Kavala, GRE.
Membership
→ E.E.T.E (Chamber of Fine Arts in Greece)
→ S.K.E.T.B.E. (Artists Association for Northern Greece)
Art collections and Representations
→ Private art collections in Europe and the USA
→ Graphotek, Berlin, GER
→ Art Gallery Magic Mountain, Château Nico Lazaridi, Drama, GRE
→ Vafopouleio Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, GRE
→ Municipal Art Gallery Ptolemaida, Greece, GRE
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→ 2021 Silver Award Contemporary Painting, Artfolio Annual 2021, curator Beatriz Esguerra
Grant
→ 2000 Artist in Residence, Vermont, Vermont Studio Center, USA
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→ Website: http://www.caritaschmidt.com
→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio_caritaschmidt/
→ Saatchi Art Online: https://www.saatchiart.com/caritaschmidt/
Carita Schmidt is a Berlin-based visual artist and art mentor whose abstract work explores the interplay of movement, light, and identity. Born in Güstrow, Germany, and shaped by life across Finland, Sweden, Greece, and both East and West Germany, her multicultural perspective informs a visual language rooted in transformation and reflection.
Educated at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm (BFA, 1983–86), Schmidt held her first solo exhibition in 1991 in Kavala, Greece. Since then, she has presented 16 solo exhibitions and participated in over 70 group shows across Europe and the U.S. Her work is held in both private and public collections, including the Graphothek Berlin, the Vafopoulio Cultural Center in Thessaloniki, and the Art Gallery MAGIC MOUNTAIN, Château Nico Lazaridi in Drama, Greece.
Schmidt’s abstractions are characterized by layered lines—looping like strands of DNA or dissolving into veils of light—that generate fluid visual fields. In series like Frequencies, she reduces each composition to its essentials, capturing the ephemeral nature of Mediterranean light and the rhythms of inner perception.
With a practice that merges technical precision and meditative presence, Carita Schmidt invites viewers into evolving visual spaces where form, gesture, and emotion continually unfold.
"My art is a play of movement and boundaries – a multilayered space where identity, time and light intertwine."
Carita Schmidt
This connection stems from my personal experience: In my work, I process identity and the imprints of my multicultural life – a life in which I have always been part of a greater whole while simultaneously standing on the outside. This perspective has sharpened my view: I observe things from a distance while moving through them – or life moves me. Movement has therefore become the guiding thread of my work.
As a painter, I work at the intersection of drawing and painting, combining fine liner, ink, acrylic, and oil paint in layered compositions that interweave and overlap. My paintings are abstract compositions, characterized by layered forms and lines - looping like strands of DNA or dissolving into veils of light- that generate fluid visual fields. They reflect the interplay of life, space, time and light – moments in which these elements collide, merge, separate, or dissolve.
Since 2023, the circular form has been at the center of my work. I use gold leaf selectively to highlight colours and shapes, enhancing reflections and contrasts. With parallel strokes, I describe paths, routes, and passages – evoking a codex of territories, marking boundaries or highlighting connections, guided by my interest for a larger view on life, society and humanities search for evolution.
I see my art as a visual refuge – providing space expanding and shifting between the visible and the invisible.
1983 – 86 BA, Dramatiska Institutet/University College of Film, Theatre and Television, Stockholm, SWE. Same time cross-media studies with Björn Lövin (1937-2009), one of Sweden’s most interesting conceptual and political artist.
Long residencies in Finland, Sweden, Germany (former East and West) and Greece. Based in Berlin, Germany, since 2012.
