About
CAROLA SCHMIDT | LULU SCHMIDT
Visual Artist (Video/Film Producer, Director, Photography) I Performance Artist
Carola Schmidt studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), in the class of Rebecca Horn. In 2008, she won the renowned Diagonale best newcomer prize and was awarded a Sophie and Emanuel Fohn stipend. Numerous awards for her music and video art have since followed.
Carola Schmidt is an established director, photographer and producer, whose portfolio includes international museum exhibitions, and collaborations with various artists, TV stations, record labels and festivals.
Although her production and artistic experience covers a wide range, she specialises in producing music videos, documentaries, portraits, stage projections, and visual artworks; for both newcomers and large clients. She realizes projects from start to finish: from the initial artistic concept, through to the conception and implementation, including editing and post-production.
"Carola Schmidt moves between film, photography, and visual design. Her works display the fragile values of today’s society; full of magic, seduction and euphoria.
In 2016 she brought her alter ego Lulu Schmidt into being – a performative, multi-talented, erotic, romantic and overexposed persona, acting out her journey of self-discovery.
"Carola Schmidt’s art background also rubs off on her musical alter ego: Lulu Schmidt’s sound, videos, performances and self-con- ception are carried by the desire for staging, by eccentricity, breaks and rein- terpretations. On top of that she adds an (electro-)pop sensibility that ensures that the messages about gender roles and star cult also find their way into the ear. She describes her crossing the border between avant-garde and mainstream, introspection and expressiveness as hangover pop. And it has a lot to offer." (The Gap)
As a one-woman orchestra (Vox/electronica/keys/violin) she developed a comprehensive live concept which integrates lighting, stage design, and costume. She is known for her shrill conceptual stagings, which focus on the themes of transformation and identity.
The Austrian artist currently lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
Scholarships, Grants
2020: Lulu Schmidt nominated for Austrian music x-port award
2020: Carola Schmidt artist scholarship Stadt Wien & Land NÖ
2020: FIRE wins prize for best music video @ Byron Bay Film Festival
2019: FIRE wins award best music video @ Bucharest short cinefest festival
2018: INES Talent Awasrd for Lulu Schmidt
2017: funding / grant for Album Production BiPopularity (Lulu Schmidt) by MUSIKFONDS Austria
2013 nomination Berlin Music Video Awards for Innocent
2011 Drehbuchförderung Spielfilmprojekt TANGOWERK vom Bundesministerium f. Kunst u. Kultur / Österreich
2010 START Stipendium für Filmkunst vom Bundesministerium f. Kunst u. Kultur / Österreich für Spielfilmprojekt TANGOWERK (Projektentwicklung)
2009 BEETHOVENFEST BONN: Produktionskostenzuschuss / “The last trick!”
2008 DIAGONALE Preis für den besten Österreichischen Nachwuchsfilm 2007/2008 für “Wir bitten dich, verführe uns!”
2008 Sophie und Emanuel FOHN Stipendium
2007 Meisterschülerstipendium von REBECCA HORN/ UDK Berlin
2006 Stipendium der Kulturabteilung MA7 der Stadt Wien
Vita
2019: MQ HOFMUSIK @ Museumsquartier Vienna – Solo Performance Lulu Schmidt link
2019: FM4 Club @ Viennale – Int. Filmfestival, Vienna @Kunsthalle Wien: Album Release Concert BiPopularity live video snippet
2019: Linecheck Festival Milano – Milano Music Week Performance Lulu Schmidt
2019: Production: Lulu Schmidt – Fire (dir. Rupert Höller) videolink
2019: Albumrelease Lulu Schmidt – BiPopularity, founded by Österreichischer Musikfonds. albumlink
Press Info GERMAN Press Info ENGLISH
2019: Popfest Wien / Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt) link
2019: Berliner Festspiele: Capturing the moving Body, workshop with Christin Schmidt
2019: Haus der Berliner Festspiele: Ready To Let Go/ 2 channel video installation, Filmscreening
2019: Rote Bar, Volkstheater Wien / Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt)
2019: Salon im Looshaus, Vienna – Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt)
2019: Take Festival Vienna: Performance within the binary experience by Sabrina Stadlober Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt)
2019: Bar jeder Vernunft, Berlin: Solo Performance Lulu Schmidt, with SAFI
2019: Berghain Kantine Berlin / Performance (Lulu Schmidt)
2019: FreitänzerInnen – Artistic Dance Film project in cooperation with Jugendpsychiatrie Altenburg im Rahmen von Kultur macht Stark – with Christin Schmidt
2019: FIRE – artistic dance film production in cooperation with Christin Schmidt, with Bewegungsküche Jena, Kultur macht Stark.
2019: Single Release Lulu Schmidt – HAPPY AND I HATE IT ft. Klumzy Tung.
Radio Rotations including: Radio FM4 ”M” Rotation / Playliste + IV Nachmittagsshow, LRT Opus / National Radio Lithuania / daytime rotation, The Cat Radio / UK / daytime rotation, Radio Ballade / France / daytime rotation, Radio Nova / Portugal / singular Plays, Fuori Aula Radio Verona / daytime rotation, New Model Radio / Slovakia / daytime rotation, Altr Radio / Slovenia / daytime rotationRadio Soundportal Graz / Rotation, Campus & City Radio 94.4 (St. Pölten / AT): Rotation, BR Zündfunk / DLF Info / DLF Nova / Ju:Nai (Magdeburg) / Rotation Stadtradio Göttingen / Rotation & Singlereview , Afk Max (Nürnberg) / Rotation , Free FM (Ulm) / Rotation & Phoner & Singlereview ,uv.
2019: Co-Production & Cinematography for 1h live video Nhoah live @stairway to nothingness Glacier concert teaser
2019: Music Video Production: Lulu Schmidt – Play (dir. Adriana Berrotean) videolink
2018: “Handel Fast Forward” – production of album cover photos & music video teaser for israeli singer Efrat Alony –webseite -videos/fotos, video3
2018: production of music videos & visual concept for upcoming album of berlin Singer INA VIOLA Ina Viola / songs “untouchable“, “sheep”, “au revoir” –
2018: Sandro Kessler / Kesslerpartner (Switzerland): visual concept, web design, production of image film for Internet appearance – in production
2018: production of artistic documentary FUNDAMENTAL (a Project by Rainer Prohaska) for Landesgalerie Niederösterreich / Krems / Austria – in production
2018: “BiPopularity” – electronic Music Album Production / Lulu Schmidt, production funded by MUSIKFONDS AUSTRIA – in production
2018: “Der goldne Ball” music video production for berlin electronic Artist NHOAH – in pre-production
2017: Electric Spring Festival Vienna – Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt) watch video
2017: Waves Festival, Vienna – Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt)
2017: Production for Ruhrfestspiele, “Your Love is fire” – Theater/Film Production: Stage Videos, Sounddesign – Dir. Rafat Alzakhut, Theater an der Ruhr, Summerhall Edinburgh Festival, funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes Deutschland
2017: Film/Media Production: producing/editing the Conference Video Teaser for Danube Cultural Conference, Interreg / Danube Transnational Program of the European Union – for BMUKK Bundeskanzleramt Kultur und Kunst / Austria, based on the Documentation “Boring River” (Rainer Prohaska)
2017: honored to be receiving funding/ grant for my Album Production BiPopularity (Lulu Schmidt) by MUSIKFONDS AUSTRIA link
2017: Artist talk – speaking at the Danube Cultural Conference/Pecs, Hungary about the artistic work of Rainer Prohaska in the Danube cultural Region. “The key to raising attention. Challenges and perspectives of audience development along the Danube”
2017 Performance/ featured in the TV commercial 4 Jägermeister COLD by Ralf Schmerberg / triggerhappyproductions / Radical Media / Oppermann Weiss, feat. Nadja Auermann – on TV in North America / USA / UK – All Motion Media
2017 “Escalate” / Film Production, Video Project, with Christin Schmidt. Production of a Series of Dance Videos with young Kids & Teenagers from Weimar West. (in cooperation with WeDance, founded by Jugend ins Zentrum, im Rahmen von Kultur macht Stark) video
2017 “Geistern” / Jena, Video Project with Children, with Christin Schmidt, („Geistern“ ist ein Projekt des Fördervereins KinderStärken! in Kooperation mit der Westschule Jena und dem Bewegungsküche e.V. und wurde gefördert von ChanceTanz, einem Projekt des Bundesverbands Tanz in Schulen e.V., im Rahmen des Programms Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung des BMBF.)
2017 Project Management on Site & Guest Artist in Residence at Art Project “Mobile Teahouse” by Rainer Prohaska, Martha Museum Herford.
2017 Solo Performance (Lulu Schmidt): ARENA WIEN , support Band for KÄPTN PENG live video snippet
2017 Solo Performance (as Lulu Schmidt) at: Most:Wanted music conference hosted by Berlin Music Commission. -feat. St.Vito. live video snippet
2016 Music & Video production”Beautiful Day” – Song featured in the Movie “Fucking Berlin”, Video available on DVD & Blue Ray. video
2016 performances Lulu Schmidt (Solo): POPFEST WIEN (link), Lido Berlin, Columbia Theatre Berlin, Gretchen Berlin, Playground Festival / Das Werk, Wien. read review/ falter vienna
2016 proudly hosting the Berlin Music Video Awards
2016: Loosbar, Wien: “Art on Drugs” / Lesung (Carola Schmidt)
2015 live performances :
RE:PUBLICA , Berlin – Music Performance (with Tangowerk)
26.06.15: FUSION Festival / Berlin (with Tangowerk)
28.06.15: Funkenflug Festival Berlin (Lulu Schmidt / Solo Performance)
02.09.15: Forever Now Festival Berlin (with Tangowerk)
11.09.15: Progress Festival, Waldviertler Hoftheater: Live Performance /Art on Drugs
22.9.15: Klunkerkranich, Berlin
10.10.15: live performance III-Points Festival / Miami (with Tangowerk) video
2015 BORING RIVER (FILM, 50min.) /with Rainer Prohaska, premiering at DONAUFESTIVAL, Krems – info
2015 “EMERGENCY” Music Video nominated for Berlin Music Video Awards & on Rotation @ MTV France.
2014 live Performances as Lulu Schmidt with Tangowerk:
Fusion Festival/ Lärz, Bardot Club/Miami, Club 69 /Buenos Aires video, Milion/Buenos Aires, Unite Benefit/Volkshaus Zürich, Pow Wow Festival/Leipzig, Berlin Music Week/Postbahnhof Berlin, Kino International/ Berlin, Rotes Rathaus / Berlin, Ritter Butzke / Berlin, MS Stubnitz / Hamburg, Ultra Ber / Buenos Aires, Columbiahalle Berlin (with Mia.), Docks/ Hamburg (with Mia.), Dresden / Scheune, Frankfurt am Main / Zoom (with Mia.), München / Ampere (with Mia.), Köln / Luxor (with Mia.), …
2014 directing the official music video QUEEN / MIA. for Universal Music Germany – produced by PARTIZAN. watch
2014 Lulu Schmidt entering the Finale of Berlin Song Contest with the Song “I am not me!” watch videoteaser
2014 nominated for Berlin Music Video Awards for musicvideo GELD / BLING (Tangowerk feat. Mia.) in cooperation with Amnesty International watch video
2014 Lulu Schmidt: selected live performances (with Tangowerk): Ritter Butzke / Berlin, MC Stubnitz/Hamburg, Kino International Berlin (Berlin Music Week), Schwuz, Berlin, … watch tangowerk live epk
2013 Gartenbaukino, Vienna ‘ÜberMut’ – screening
2013 Christopher Street Day Berlin, Finale (Main Stage / Brandenburg Gate) – performance as Lulu Schmidt with Tangowerk
2013 Mashup Filmfestival Rome (Innocent)
2013 screening of ‘ÜberMut’ documentary and opening performance by Lulu Schmidt feat. 4 former Boys Choir Members and Peter Quehenberger at exhibition by Carmen Brucic, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck
2013 “Innocent” nominated for Berlin music Video Awards
2013 Reminders Day Aids Gala Berlin – “Innocent” – performance as Lulu Schmidt
2012 film production: artistic documentation for the VIENNA BOYS CHOIR (WIENER SÄNGERKNABEN) (Congress on Courage – a Project by Carmen Brucic).
2012 appearance & artistic cooperation at the theatre event “Congress on Courage” by Carmen Brucic. Performance as Lulu Schmidt. “I AM NOT ME!” / dec. 14/15 2012, Vienna Boys Choir concert hall, Vienna
2012 “Innocent” – music video (director) – released worldwide 2011/12
2012 Beethovenfest Bonn (screening / “The last trick”)
2012 on Tour with Tangowerk as Lulu Schmidt.
2011 Tangowerk – the making of (documentary, 40 min., by Carola Schmidt) – online @ spiegel TV //> watch here
2011 Babylon Berlin – Tangowerk – Night – / Screening: “Wir bitten dich, verführe uns”, “Tangowerk (Doku)” & live performance / weblink: report by dpa @ stern.de
2011 Drehbuchförderung Spielfilmprojekt TANGOWERK vom Bundesministerium f. Kunst u. Kultur / Österreich
2011 release of a DVD with my films / videos as part ot the Album TANGOWERK (-R.O.T / Universal) feat .NHOAH, Adriana Varela, Mieze Katz, Louie Austen, Berlin Comedian Harmonists, etc – buy at Amazon
2011 “The black rose” / “La rosa negra” – Galeria Hilario Galguera / Mexican embassy at Studio Roel Berlin – weblink
2011 “We IN EXIT”: Bühnenvideos für ein Theaterstück von Euforia & Herbst, Préchody Festival, Eisenberger Fabrik Gmünd / NÖ
2011 MK Gallery, Berlin: “The beauty in seduction”
2011 release of music video “Dancing on the Volcano“: TANGOWERK by NHOAH / feat. Headvoice / weblink to video@TAPE TV
2010 Projektentwicklung TANGOWERK (Musik – Spielfilm, 90 min.): START Stipendium für Filmkunst vom Bundesministerium f. Kunst u. Kultur / Österreich
2010 curating TAPE MODERN Nr. 18 (“I am completely operational“)
2010 Everybody learns from disaster, Villa Elisabeth Berlin
2010 Sendetermin “The last trick”( Look at Beethoven) – WDR/ Westdeutscher Rundfunk 16.03.2010
2010 “Urbi et Orbi”- Paço das Artes / MIS (Museu da Imagem e do Som), São Paulo, Brazil (Filmscreenings), curated by Hugo Fortes
2009 Tape modern No. 12 –TAPE- Berlin, curated by Amir Fattal & Erik Niedling
2009 Videoscreenings Mostravídeo Itaú Cultural,Vitoria & Belo Horizonte, Brazil”Berlin: Transitions and Transformations”curated by Hugo Fortes
2009 Kunsthaus Bonn / Beethovenfest Bonn “The last trick!” / screenings
2009 Beethovenfest / Bonn: Produktionszuschuss für “The last trick!”
2008 Gegenwelten Filmfestival- Künstlerhauskino Wien – 14.03.09 – weblink
2008 Bühnenvideos // – Mia. “Wilkommen im Club” Tour / (12/08 – 03/09)- weblink / tourtermine
2008 “luring into!” / Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien, curated by Gabriele Rothemann
2008 Mia.- “Mausen (MTV Version)” -filmsnippet / exclusively on mtv – weblink
2008 .BHC Berlin Alexanderplatz
2008 Pergamonmuseum, Berlin, “Babylon-Mythos und Wahrheit” – Bibliartes Shortlist
2008 “Rites of Passage”, curated by Rebecca Horn, Galeria Maior, Pollenca -weblink
2008 Holdudvar Galeria, Budapest / LADA Project: „We beg you to seduce us!“ / „Kérünk téged, csábíts el minket!“ (solo)
2008 participation in “Künstler treffen in Berlin”, Ricardo von Brasch, Prestel Verlag 2008 / weblink
2008 Mia. „Mein Freund“ // Experimental Film, released on Mia. Mein Freund Maxi CD // feat. Nikolai Kinski / Sony BMG / weblink
2008 DIAGONALE / Austria / Festival des österreichischen Films /
(Award for best newcomerfilm 2007/2008 – “Wir bitten dich, verführe uns!/ We beg you to seduce us!”)
2008 .BHC / “BHC Kollektiv Shows 1+2” / Centrum Hungaricum Berlin Alexanderplatz
2008 Ram Gallery,Rotterdam / LADA Project : “guess who is coming”, with lada project
2007 Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (solo)/ “wir bitten dich, verführe uns!”
2007 Kunsthalle Wien / permanently featured at Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv from 11 / 07 , nominated for ursula blickle videoprize
2007 Schloß Sarcow, Berlin / “chateau ivre”, curated by Rebecca Horn
2007 Filmforum, Gmünd / NÖ – stadtkino prinz / interaktive lesung & filme mit pfefferkornuntertonvanilli
2007 Galerie Weissenseer Freitag, Berlin / filmscreening carola schmidt / tiko karrasch
2007 Infernoesque, Berlin / “infernesque grande”
2007 DFFB- deutsche film- und fernsehakademie, berlin / “ungewöhnliche begegnung”- carola schmidt, tiko karrasch, judith bauch
2007 Udk, Berlin / Meisterschülerausstellung (meisterschülerin von rebecca horn) – article about my film by saatchi online
2007 209205 Eveningside Dr, Los Angeles CA / ex.serials no.2 (katalog)
2007 Udk, Berlin / performance night, class of rebecca horn.
2006 Artothek Galerie, Wien: “the last trick” (Solo)
2006 Galerie Kaiserstr., Wien : “franz jagt urselbein”
2006 Kunsthaus, Meiningen: “sexophil”
2006 Stiftung Starke, Berlin: “tiger im löwenpalais”
2006 Rodles Tage, Rödles, Germany: “too lazy for the revolution!” (mit t. tillmann)
2006 Zinnober @ Berlinale @ HAU, berlin: “eine nacht zinnober” / mit sally busse + ina viola blasius
2005 Sophiensaele, Berlin: “100 jahre sophiensaele” / “(…)-eine zerstäubung in mehreren posen”
2005 Tps, Berlin: “schubert und die vertikale schusslinie” / inszenierte musikperformance
2005 Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin: “haus im körper” (katalog)
2005 Hiroshima, Japan: “mendanart”
2005 Klangkunstbühne, Berlin: “eigenart” (ruedi häusermann)
2005 MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien: “the essence” (diaprogramm) (katalog)
2005 “the last trick”: kurzfilmproduktion durch STV media (buch+regie)
2005 Institut für Philosophie, die Angewandte, Wien: “magie, zauberei und illusion”
2005 Culturni Centar, Belgrad: “beograd film festival” / filmprogramm
2005 Kunstwoche Grafenschlag /ö: “wenn elemente walten”, videoprojektionen zu einer lesung von pfefferkornuntertonvanili
2005 Kunstakademie Münster / filmprogramm (katalog)
2004 Internat. forum der kunst u. kultur, politik u. wissenschaft, berlin: “cross the river”
2004 alte Bibliothek der Udk Berlin: “fliehende bücher” /”fliehende leerstellen”
2004 Stiftung Starke, Berlin: “mitternacht-tage im löwenpalais”
2004 Heinz Minki Garten, Berlin: “kurzfilm,der” / “herbstbrief”, animation
2004 Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien: “rien ne va plus” / videos
2004 Turboplex, Berlin: “o tender sailorman” / “milch”, video/loop
2003 Tps, Berlin: “4 zeiten des jahres”, theaterproduktion (regie harald clemen)
2003 Galerie König, Wien: “48h” / “lesung : lauschangriff“, performance” mit t. tillmann, spiegelinstallation, mit magda tothova
2003 “Heaps“, buch mit t.tillmann
2002 Künstlerhaus, Wien: “the essence” / (diaprojektionen) (katalog)
2001-2002 Chinatournee (violine) mit dem wtv / conductor: huw rhys james