Career
In her work, Helene Schmitz is interested in how nature’s described in science, art and literature. Schmitz investigates how these activities filters our understanding and her work often makes us question our preconceptons of nature. After graduating with a Bachelor in History of Art and Cinema, she started working with photography.
Today, Schmitz regularly holds exhibitions in Scandinavia and in France and her pictures have been published world-wide in National Geographic.
In February 2015, her hitherto largest solo exhibition will take place at Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg, exhibiting photors from four of her latest projects. In France, Schmitz has been represented in several international group exhibitions, including an open-air exhibition in Jardin des Plantes in 2007, Transphotographiques in Lille (2009) and ’’Arts and Nature’’ in Daumain de Chaumont sur Loire in 2011.
In Sweden, Schmitz’s works have been exhibited at galleries as well as public locations. A semi-permanent collection of her plant portraits was shown in Stockholms subway station Mariatorget during 2012-2013.
Schmitz’s photographs have been published in a number of international books and magazines including the New York based magazine Cabinet, which published photos from Schmitz’s Kudzu Project in 2014.
Helene Schmitz’s work is represented at The Swedish Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.
