Enno Schmidt

Enno Schmidt is an artist who lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Basel, Switzerland.

From 1992 until 1997 he led and managed the interdisciplinary programme, Enterprise Economy and Art - Expanded (Unternehmen Wirtschaft und Kunst - erweitert) of which he was joint founder.

Since 2001 he has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Social Sculpture Research Unit in the School of Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. During this period Enno has been involved in several projects with the SSRU including an exhibition of his work linked to the 'Visible Thought' exhibition of Rudolf Steiner's blackboards in Oxford Brookes University's experimental research space, the Arena. The Oxford Series, a set of drawings that Enno produced in and for workshops on social sculpture in Oxford between 2001 and 2003, were his contribution to this exhibition exploring 'Visible Thought' and a focus of the parallel weekend symposium.

Enno is currently leading editor of the Culture Portal New Media of the city of Frankfurt on behalf of the Institute for New Media, Instructor at the Interfacultativ Institute for Entrepreneuership at the University of Karlsruhe and is co-founder of the Basic Income Initiative in Switzerland. He was author of the Frankfurt-based magazine "Die Drei" and presenter of the "TQM-Circle" in the enterprise Wilhelmi Werke AG, Lahnau.

His concerns as an artist have for many years centered round the transfer of art into the aims, understandings and methodologies of other spheres of activity, particularly the development of a mutual encounter between art and economy.


Enno Schmidt exhibits in Germany and internationally, and is actively involved in a range of social sculpture related projects and enterprises, in particular work on the Basic Income Framework as a cultural impulse.