Kristina Schmidt

Lives and works in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA

2018 - Now
• Hunter College, City University of New York, USA (Combined Media)
  Master of Fine Arts

2017
• Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany (Diploma)
  Honored as Master Scholar (Meisterschülerin)

SELECTED ACTIVITY

2019
• Black Radiation, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, DE
• Forever Young, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE (artist commentary)
• Live in your world/play in ours, Compére Collective, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• ATM (At the [present] Moment] Ban King, PAD Gallery, New York, NY, USA (as Kitti & Joy)
• Hi Spirits, GALLERY as part of NEA at Spring Break, New York, NY, USA (SOLO)
• Close to Nico (Nico - Wie kann die Luft so schwer sein an einem Tag an dem der Himmel so blau ist), Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, DE (as Kitti & Joy)

2018
• Jahresgaben, Kunstverein, Munich, DE
• Kombi 6, Bethanien, Berlin (as Kitti & Joy)
• Act I, Scene II, 205 Hudson, New York, NY, USA
• Debütantinnen, Galerie der Künstler, BBK Munich, DE (Kitti & Joy)
• Everyone Come Pop-Up Show, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Electrolytes are lost when we sweat, Bushwick Sculpture Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Aufbruch, Master Scholars of Gregor Hildebrandt, Wurlitzer Collection, Berlin, DE
• Portal - A Visual Research, Lothringer13_Florida, Munich, DE (as Frühstücksradio)
• Wir schwimmen alle im gleichen Wasser, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, DE

2017
• Jahresgaben, Kunstverein, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Neumayer III, Antarctica
• Fortune Favors Fortune feat. MarinA, Edel Extra, Nuremberg, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Another world is possible, Zumikon, Nuremberg, DE
• I wanna give you devotion, Forum Homosexualität, Munich, DE (as XPatch Collective)
• Tacker, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Sea, Sex and Sun, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, DE
• Reagens, Lothringer13, Munich, DE
• Fors Fortuna, Performance, upstream!east, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Shotgun Wedding Riot, 1. MaL, Munich, DE
• upstream!east, easy!upstream, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Encounter Counter, Karl-Marx-Ring 7, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Hello Babies, Diploma Show, Kantine, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Reflektor M Dinner, Kiosk, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)

2016
• Fortune Favors Future Jitti & Koy morph edition, artist book for 100 for 10, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Dance Dance Revolution, Hall of Mental Cultivation, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Bierdeckel, public space edition, Munich, DE (as XPatch Collective)
• Zimmer frei, Hotel Mariandl, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• machinery, easy!upstream, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Schlechte Entscheidungen, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Karl & Faber Award 2016, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Tender is the night, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, DE
• Kitti & Joy invite friends, Kösk, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Where have all the Flowers gone?, Gasteig, Munich, DE
• Otherland, Support of Single, D 2015 (Bonny/Wissel), NAK, Aachen, DE (as Kitti & Joy)

2015
• Recommended by, easy!upstream, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Roy hat sich danach ja leider nie wieder erholt, Raum 49, Munich, DE (SOLO)
• Forevermore, Performative Intervention, Kunstverein, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Train&Gain with Kitti & Joy, AkademieGalerie, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Kamp Kaya, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, AT (as Kitti & Joy)
• You´re Welcome, Performance, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT (as XPatch Collective)
• Stadt der Frauen - ein Kongress, Opernfestspiele Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Gang durch die Institution, Flutgraben, Berlin, DE (as Xpatch Collective)
• Kerstin Brätsch with Mount Trailer. Kunstverein Arnsberg, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Black Box, Performance, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT (as XPatch Collective)
• Why publish?, May Day Rooms, London, UK (as XPatch Collective)
• Komödie der Vereinfachungen, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE (as Kitti & Joy)
• Klasse Förg/Dornfeld, Galerie Matthias Jahn, Munich, DE

2014
• Self-Publish and Disseminate, Kunstverein, Munich, DE (as XPatch Collective)
• Marschinen, Performance (w/ Johanna Klingler and Francois Huber), 48h Neukölln, Berlin, DE
• Hommage an Günther Förg, Artist comes First, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FRA
• Kompromissqualität Deutschland, Aa collections, Vienna, AT

COLLABORATIONS

• Kitti & Joy
  with Johanna Strobel (since 2014)
• XPatch Collective
  with Frauke Zabel, Johanna Klingler, Judith Neunhaeuserer and Liane Klingler (since 2014)
• Frühstücksradio
  with Johanna Klingler (since 2017)

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

• DAAD-Scholarship for Postgraduates (Art/Design/Film) for USA, German Academic Exchange Service, 2019
• Debütantinnenpreis (Debut Award), Freestate of Bavaria and BBK Munich/Upper Bavaria, DE, 2017 (Kitti & Joy)
• Zwei:Eins Art Award, SoNet e.V., Munich, DE, 2017 (Kitti & Joy)
• Emilie Porzer’sche Foundation, DE, 2017
• Steiner Foundation, DE, 2017
• Anniversary Scholarship, AdBK München, DE, 2016 (Kitti & Joy)
• Scholarship of the Freestate of Bavaria for the International Summeracademy, Salzburg, AT, 2016
• Danner Award, AdBK München, DE, 2016
• Leonhard-und-Ida-Wolf-Memorial Award of the City of Munich, DE, 2015 (XPatch Collective)
• Akademieverein, Munich, DE, 2014, 2015, 2016
• LfA catalogue funding, DE, 2015

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• You´re Welcome, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, AT (XPatch Collective)
• Collection of Regensburg University, DE
• Let go anchor, Sculpture, Lake Constance, Bregenz, AT (Kitti & Joy)

PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

• Folding Map, Published on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition „Forever Young - 10 years Museum Brandhorst“, Museum Brandhorst, 2019
• Nico, Manfred Rothenberger, Thomas Weber (Hrsg.) und Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2019
• Premium Discount, B(u)y Kitti & Joy, Hammann von Mier, Munich, 2018
• I wanna give you devotion, Hammann von Mier, Munich, 2017 (Poster Contribution with Xpatch Collective)
• KAYA, Edited by Eva Birkenstock, Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a, Series Volume 4, 2016
• Fortune Favors Future Jitti & Koy morph edition, ReflektorM and melville brand design, Munich, 2016
• Komödie der Vereinfachung, LFA catalogue, 2015
• self publish & disseminate, ANDpublishing, Kunstverein München, 2014
• Macht des Materials/Politik der Materialität, Edited by Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier, Diaphanes, 2014

Kristina Schmidt