Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Jeanne Schmid began her career as a sculptor. For ten years, her artistic research led her to explore line as a tool for defining space. Exhibitions, competitions and residencies took her all over Europe, until a tragic car accident turned her life and her art upside down.
After several years in search of a new meaning to her life, Jeanne Schmid redefined her artistic vocabulary, extending it to photography, video and audio.
In 2012, her video installation project “états d’âmes” won a grant from the Swiss Federal Department of Culture.
In parallel with her new research, the artist is gradually getting closer to painting, and regularly exhibits her work in various parts of Switzerland. Since 2012, Jeanne Schmid has taken part in several residencies and artistic projects across Europe. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Musée de Montreux, as well as several private collections.

I work with painting using inks, pigments, plant-based dyes, as well as ground earths and stones. Rather than using acrylic paints, I develop my nuances from the material itself, giving particular attention to the preparation of my supports.
The trace of my gestures settles.
Simple and essential, on the surface.
Inspired by Zen painting and the motif of the ensō, I also develop incursions into an imaginary landscape, often mineral.
The material accompanies, meditative.
It inscribes the imprint of my movement within a certain density, fostering a reflection on the material conditions that shape my work.
Thus, in recent years, powders and pulps have combined with paper, propelling me once again into the third dimension.
Volumes emerge, objects organize space.
Time and memory leave their imprint there.
In a spiral progression, a moment closes one level in the cycle of time, opening the way to new developments.
My research brings me closer to nature, to what lives and transforms around us.
It invites care for our vital environment, for what constitutes it… and for what makes it fragile.