Hank Schmidt in der Beek – Miss Read

Hank Schmidt in der Beek

Hank Schmidt in der Beek (*1978 in Munich) is an artist and singer and lyricist for the pub rock band DAS LUNSENTRIO and lives in Berlin, Kreuzberg.

In his extensive series of paintings, collages and poems, he quotes well-known motifs from modern art history, combines them freely and creates completely new connections. His bold approach to the works results in lightness, wit and a release from the burden of meaning.

Hank's artistic work has always been accompanied by sometimes thicker, sometimes thinner and mostly self-produced publications:
http://hankschmidtinderbeek.de/publications/

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2024
Große Happen in der 2. und 4. Dimension im Riesenhappen in der 3. Dimension, Fächer, Berlin

2023
Guten Aaabend! – Der Mainzelmännchen-Effekt bei Hannah Höch und Victor Vaserely, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Wien

2022
Wir sind alle sehr froh wenn die Schlümpfephase endet, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Kanister, Hamburg

2021
Die Fürst Pückler-Bluse – Kunstverein Braunschweig
Die Enzyklopädie der Großen Geister – Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, München

2020
Große Happen in der 2. und 4. Dimension – Galerie Christine Mayer, München

2019
Unterm Otterfell – Bernsteinzimmer, Nürnberg

2017
Die Brennenden Giraffen – Kunstverein Augsburg

2016
Weißblaue Geschichten – Galerie Niklas Schechinger, Berlin

2015
Zungguzungguguzungguzeng – Galerie Christine Mayer, München
Neue Gebirgs, – Steinbruch- und Rindviechbilder – Kunsthaus Jesteburg

2014
Ein Akt, eine Treppe hinaufzumsteigen – Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, München

2013
Die Mannschaft braucht Dich, Yves Klein – Galerie Gabriele Senn, Wien

2010
Ein Akt, eine Treppe hinabzumsteigen – Kunstverein Hamburg

Große Happen in der 2. und 4. Dimension
Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Große Happen in der 2. und 4. Dimension, Edition Taube, München, 2022, © Hank Schmidt in der Beek

As he did for his last Edition Taube book (the red-checked painting classic „Und im Sommer tu ich malen“) this time Hank Schmidt in der Beek has put on again his most beautiful sweaters to paint. This time it is his Fürst Pückler sweater and he paints not outdoors, but indoors in his studio, where he pursued the following thought: Let’s assume that one would also put a beautiful strawberry-vanilla-chocolate Fürst-Pückler-Art blouse over Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square on a White Background. How would this small intervention at the much-invoked “zero point of art”, the nucleus between everything that has happened in the history of painting on this side and everything that has happened and will happen beyond it, affect the rest of art history? Hard to say. One has to try it out!

Hank has made a beginning in the closest environment of the “Black Square”—there in the eastern upper corner in 1915 where the constructi-vist painting set the main sails on its journey into the non-objective world: in the Malevich Room of the last Futurist exhibition of the Painting “0.10” in the Chudoschestwennoje bjuro in Petrograd.

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Und im Sommer tu ich malen
Hank Schmidt in der Beek und Fabian Schubert, Und im Sommer tu ich malen, Edition Taube, München, 2016, © Hank Schmidt in der Beek und Fabian Schubert

Out of print in the 1st and 2nd editions / will be published in an expanded new edition this year.

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Ezyklopädie der Großen Geister
Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Ezyklopädie der Großen Geister, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, 2024, © Hank Schmidt in der Beek

300 poems

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