News | Hermann Valentin Schmitt

COLOUR SPACES - ART EXHIBITION

5. September – 14. September, 2025

MOA WOOD, Stendaler Straße 1, Moabit, 10559 Berlin

Vernissage: Freitag, 5. September, 18.00–20.00 Uhr

Öffnungszeiten: täglich 17.00–20.00 Uhr

Umarmendes Rot, schwefeliges Gelb, tiefes, die Blicke aufsaugendes Blau... Kommen Sie zu den Wanderungen durch die großformatigen Farbräume von Hermann Valentin Schmitt im MOA WOOD, Stendaler Straße 1 in Moabit, Berlin-Mitte.

Während endloser Übermalungen ist der Künstler aus Berlin und Kanada auf der Suche nach den richtigen Farbtönen für seine Kompositionen mit ihrer inneren Leuchtkraft. Zufall, Neugierde und Experimente führen bei ihm zum Entdecken und Einfangen neuer Farbarbeiten der Freude.

Führen Sie keine Dialoge mit Farben? Hatten Sie noch nie einen gelben oder blauen Tag? Farben kommunizieren mit Ihrem Körper. Die wirklich tiefen Emotionen lassen sich eben nur mit Farben ausdrücken“, so der Künstler.

Freiheit des kreativen Prozesses, Freiheit in der öffentlichen Präsentation und Zugang für alle – diese Grundhaltung führte auch zu einer Vereinbarung mit ANH Hausbesitz über die Bereitstellung der Ausstellungsfläche.

Lassen Sie sich berühren und verzaubern, denn in jedem künstlerischen Ausdruck, der unsere Aufmerksamkeit fesselt, steckt auch eine Wahrheit.

©Jordana Schramm

Colour in Interior Spaces

I had the opportunity to sponsor an exhibition and a talk as part of 2025 Design Victoria festivities. Colour in Interior Spaces, the session on May 2nd, enabled me to engage in discussion with a group of interested and knowledgeable people about key themes that have informed and motivated my art.

The question of how I became aware of the importance of colour led to a much broader theme: How does art endure the test of time? We didn’t shy away from discussing some essential themes such as the place of art in everyday life and other elusive elements involved in the creative process.

For me, the place of art is in the living room. Experiencing art in everyday life is a vital need, perhaps equivalent to our need for air, food, and water. I think everyone needs a daily positive experience of art. Without it, our thoughts and feelings lack nourishment.

Colour has the capacity to express a full spectrum of sensations and emotions, including joy. When we perceive colour, it goes through our body and brain. So we have an emotional connotation with colour, one that varies from person to person. When I say I had a “blue” day, I might mean a “sad” day or a “quiet” day.

This session at Gabriel Ross, a fine interior design show room, was an ideal setting. It enabled me to show a few of my colour art works and allow them to live and breathe among inspired furnishings presented with imaginative lighting. This setting of an interior space enhanced the visible interplay of light, line, and colour.

I am thankful to Gabriel Ross and to the participants in this group discussion. A question that challenged me was: “What influences your creative process?” Another equally difficult question was: “When is a picture finished?” My best attempt at an answer remains: doubts and humility are motors for the creative process.” Therefore, sometimes a picture composition is never finished.

Hermann Valentin Schmitt

Victoria, BC

June 2025

Hermann Valentin Schmitt at Design Victoria Festival

In collaboration with Gabriel Ross and Design Victoria, Hermann Valentin Schmitt is showing a collection of works from May 1 – May 4, 2025. Looking forward to seeing you at the Gabriel Ross Showroom.

Highlights from Hermann Valentin Schmitt's first solo exhibition in Canada.

The opening attracted over 100 people from a cross-section of the community in Victoria and received television and press coverage. In his introduction, Franc D'Ambrosio, principal architect and founder of Dau Studio, described the purpose of this exhibition as a "vehicle to contribute to and help foster a sense of community among artists and creative people in our adopted City. By putting himself out there through his work, Schmitt is sharing his life-long passion and artistic production. His interest in, and love for, the phenomenon of colour, is his way to observe and celebrate through painting, where he has been, where he is, and what he observes. With this first solo exhibition in Canada, Schmitt is sharing his passion for his work and his belief in the life affirming power of art, as well as joining the conversation of the creative community of this City."

Writing in Preview Magazine, Robin Laurence describes the paintings in COLOUR MOVES: “Through his brushy and brilliantly hued abstractions on canvas, paper, wood and copper plate, Hermann Valentin Schmitt communicates his personal responses to music and the natural world.”

The German art critic Baerbel Sanchez calls Schmitt the artist “who dances with colour.” His paintings can be viewed by appointment at his Victoria and/or Berlin studios.