This interview was conducted at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong on 27 April 2008.


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.


簡歷︰

施岸笛(Andreas Schmid)，1955年生於德國斯圖加特。獨立策展人，藝評人及藝術家，現於柏林居住及工作。

1983-1986年間，施岸笛為杭州浙江美術學院（現中國美術學院）中國畫系學生，同時開始搜集關於’85新潮的資料。1993年，聯同荷蘭的Hans van Dijk及柏林的Jochen Noth，策劃在德國柏林世界文化宮舉辦的《中國前衛藝術》展覽，亦兼任该次展覽圖錄的主編。該畫冊的中文版於1994年由香港牛津大學出版社出版。
 
施岸笛現為德國及海外多家藝術雜誌的藝評撰稿人，評述中國當代藝術的發展。2008年，他聯同Dorothee Albrecht、Alf Lohr及Moira Zoitl等人策劃「Dream of Art Spaces Collected」。該計劃由Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste及Deutscher Künstlerbund主辦。