Joey Schmidt-Muller

Joey Schmidt-Muller - Traumatische Sachlichkeit.

Joey Schmidt-Muller is an active member of the German Avantgarde Scene. Moving from Later Surrealism and the New Objectivity, he joined the already established Vienna School of the Fantastic Realism. The confrontation with social criticism led to Joey’s new style, “The Traumatic Realism”, as a development of the New Objectivity of 1933. Pain, torture, nightmares and fears scream at us in creatures dancing and fighting, diving and flying who are intended to arouse our level of consciousness and lead us from our condition of prisoners to self-liberation.
The artworks of Joey Schmidt-Muller (pseudonym "Josua" until 1986) are located in various art collections in Switzerland, Germany, Ungarn & Israel. Endress & Hauser art collection, Germany. The Ernesto Schmidt art collection, Switzerland and the Carl Laszlo art collection, Hungary.

Artistic education:
1965 - 1966 Preliminary Course, School of Design and Art Basel, Switzerland
1966 - 1970 Graphics & Printing Technology, Basel, Switzerland
1970 - 1971 Graphic arts education, Zurich, Switzerland
1971 - 1972 Training Graphic, Cape Town, South Africa
1973 - 1974 Basel School of Applied Arts, Basel, Switzerland

1990 - 1991 Art Lesson in Aboriginal Symbols, Dot Painting & Patterning, Sydney, Australia

In the years 1965 to 1986, he maintained numerous contact's with other artists from the Basel art scene, which influenced his early work, including Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) Paris and Basel, Irène Zurkinden, Paris and Basel (1909-1987), Joseph Duvanel, Basel (1933-1993), Fred Spillmann, fashion designer, Paris and Basel (1915-1986) and Kurt Farner, Basel (1932-1977).

Art Lessons by Franz Fedier (1922-2005), German-Swiss painter of abstract painting, radical avant-gardist and head of the painting class at the Basel School of Applied Arts. Art Lessons by Gustav Stettler, painter (1913-2005) & Andreas His, painter (1928-2011) at the Basel School of Applied Arts.

Joey Schmidt-Muller is an active member of the German Avantgarde Scene. Moving from Later Surrealism and the New Objectivity, he joined the alrea...

2020
In Vorbereitung - Die große Goya Ausstellung der Künstlergruppe UNWETTER

2019
November
"Kristallnacht". Solo Show, Galerie KunstRaumRhein, Dornach/Basel, Switzerland. 9.11. - 20.12.2019
Kunstmesse "Art Market Budapest", Gallery A-Space, Budapest, Hungary. 03.-06.10.2019
18. Dortmunder Museumsnacht, Dortmund, Galerie Art Event Team, Germany. 21.09.-5.10.2019
Visionary Art Trip, St. Petersburg, Russia
Art Revolution Taipei - Finalist 2019, Taipei, Taiwan (International Artist Grand Prize of Taiwan)
Chang Liu Art Museum Taipei, Taiwan

2018
Chan Liu Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Revolution Taipei - Finalist 2018, Taipei, Taiwan (International Artist Grand Prize of Taiwan)
Solo Show Kettenschmiede Museum & Kulturschmiede, Fröndenberg/Ruhr, Germany
Red Dot Miami, Miami,USA
2. Art Lingen, Galerie Atelierspuren, Lingen/Ems, Germany
10. ART KAMEN, Kamen, Germany
Hommage à Francisco de Goya, Stadtgalerie, Lünen, Germany
Hommage à Francisco de Goya, Haus der Kamener Stadtgeschichte, Kamen, Germany
Benefizausstellung "Untitled Kunst", Rheinfelden, Switzerland
Atelierausstellung, Basel, Switzerland

2017
Solo Show "Soiree in Berlin", Berlin, Germany
XI.Biennale Florenz, Florence, Italy
Solo Show 17. Dortmun...