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Index: Carsten Schmidt-Olsen

Biography

Carsten Schmidt-Olsen was born in Denmark in 1952. He grew up in the town of Hjørring in the north of Denmark, where he still lives and works. From 1974 to 1975 he attended the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, a school for classical drawing. Carsten Schmidt-Olsen sees himself as a concept artist and uses various media such as painting (“robat-painting”), graphic design, photography, video, performance and Mail Art, to which he was introduced by Yoshio Nakajima in 1979. He had his first exhibitions around in Denmark (start 1975), and then also international. Carsten Schmidt-Olsen is a member of the Danish Association of Artists, a member of the Artist Society and of the Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark.

Mail Art- Projects

1980 – Christmas Correspondence, with Jørgen Christensen
1981 – Bodies of Artist
1982 – “Hjoerring Annual Filmfestiwald 82″, with Niels Lomholt & Steen Moeller Rasmussen
1982 – Selfexamination, Commonpress 48
1983 – “Falling Annual Livingroom Video Festspiel 83″, with Niels Lomholt
1984 – Thou Art 84, Performance & Mail Art with Mogens Otto Nielsen
1986 – “Oestvendsyssel Film & Video Festival 1986″, with Mogens Otto Nielsen
2000 – Bellevue-Tower-Project, Mail Art in Internet Stedet 3

Literature (selection)

Charlotte Greve. Danish Artists in the International Mail Art Network. http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1759/1641
Dorothea Eimert, Internationale Biennale Der Papierkunst 1990, Braus 90.
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen / Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, ”TEST”, Cd-rom katalog, 2000
Slavko Kacunko, Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen. Ein Leitfaden zur Geschichte und Theorie der Medienkunst, 2004.
Arbejdermuseet / Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum „Industriens billeder“, 2007.
Kunsten,“72-12, The story of KUNSTEN’s collection”, The artmuseum’s 40th anniversary, 2012.
Theis Valloe Madsen, Nye tanker ud af kaos, Kunsten NU, 2012. http://www.kunsten.nu/artikler/artikel.php?tilstaedevaerelse+og+eller+fravaerelse+carsten+schmidt+olsen+kunsthal+nord

Links

http://mailartists.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/carsten-schmidt-olsen/
http://www.videokunst-danmark.dk/archives/carsten-schmidt-olsen.htm

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S 1980 08 18 schmidt olsen 001
1980-08-18
Letter from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 00 00 schmidt olsen no 2 001
1981-00-00
Sticker from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1982 02 00 schmidt olsen 001
1982-02-00
Kopi
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1984 03 19 schmidt olsen 001
1984-03-19
Thou Art 84
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1980 09 00 schmidt olsen 20th century masturbation 001
1980-09-00
20th Century Masturbation
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 00 00 schmidt olsen no 3 001
1981-00-00
Invitation from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1983 00 00 schmidt olsen no 1 001
1983-00-00
Commonpress
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1984 05 00 schmidt olsen 001
1984-05-00
Thou Art 84
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1980 11 19 schmidt olsen 001
1980-11-19
Postcard from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 00 00 schmidt olsen no 4 001
1981-00-00
Postcard from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1983 00 00 schmidt olsen no 2 001
1983-00-00
Book by Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1980 12 08 schmidt olsen 001
1980-12-08
Letter from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 00 00 schmidt olsen no 5 001
1981-00-00
Card from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1983 00 00 schmidt olsen no 3 001
1983-00-00
Synstavle paa Skagen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1980 12 30 schmidt olsen 001
1980-12-30
Postcard from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 03 00 schmidt olsen 001
1981-03-00
Jørgen Christensen - Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1983 00 00 schmidt olsen no 4 001
1983-00-00
Jürgen Olbrich - Joergen Christensen - Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 00 00 schmidt olsen no 1 001
1981-00-00
Bodies of Artists
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1981 03 11 schmidt olsen 001
1981-03-11
Letter from Schmidt-Olsen
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen
S 1983 07 15 schmidt olsen dijk 001
1983-07-15
A Wish
Carsten Schmidt-Olsen