ongoing schmidt pick is the first show curated by Erik Schmidt for carlier | gebauer. Setting the premise for the gallery’s 30th anniversary year, his 8th exhibition at carlier | gebauerhas a special charm. Spanning the 1990s all the way through to the present day, ongoing schmidtpick gives us the opportunity to contemplate through the eyes of Schmidt as Flaneur. As Schmidthas been represented by the gallery for 22 years, his body of work also mirrors the history anddevelopment of the gallery itself - a fitting testament to our first exhibition of 2021, the year of the 30th anniversary of the gallery. Born out of a necessity to contextualise Schmidt’s work within both his own oeuvre andwithin the work of a younger generation of artists. The show acts as a retrospective in whichthe importance of Schmidt’s practice of observation of public, private and social spaces arebrought to the fore.The show allows us to step into the mind of Erik Schmidt: an observer and narrator of a storythat is unfolding before our eyes and materialised through the works of art. Schmidt’s trademark: the pertinent observation and narration of both the public and privatethrough the medium of painting and film is here unveiled, with his observation and narration extended to the work of other artists. Divided into rough categories such as ‘the 90s’, ‘the contemporaries of Schmidt’ and ‘futurepositions’. The show forms a map of his influences whilst putting a group of artists indialogue with his work linked not only by social circumstances but also by various themes. Works on display are by the following artists: Tracey Emin, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Swetlana Heger, Maximilian Kirmse, Stephanie Kloss, Lindsay Lawson, Antje Majewski, Isa Melsheimer, Piotr Nathan, Magnus Plessen, Laure Prouvost, Richard Prince, Erik Schmidt, Katharina Sieverding, Dirk Skreber, Heidi Specker, Erik van Lieshout, Magnus Plessen, Katharina Wulff, Davide Zucco.
