Jeanne Schmid trained at the Geneva Art School HEAD (ESAV) and began her career as a sculptor.
For ten years, her artistic research focused on the line as a tool for defining space. Exhibitions, competitions and residencies led her across Europe, until an unexpected event forced her to profoundly transform her artistic practice.

After several years of research, she redefined her artistic vocabulary and expanded her practice to photography, video and sound. In 2012, her video installation États d’âmes was awarded a grant from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

This multimedia practice now supports a pictorial and sculptural research centred on natural materials, their transformations, and the relationships they maintain with the territories from which they originate. She regularly exhibits her work in various regions of Switzerland.

Since 2012, Jeanne Schmid has taken part in several residencies, exhibitions and artistic projects across Europe. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Musée de Montreux as well as in several private collections.

I work with painting through inks, pigments, plant-based dyes, as well as ground earth and stone. Rather than using acrylic colours, I develop my tones directly from the material itself, paying particular attention to the preparation of surfaces.

The trace of the gesture settles, simple and essential.
Inspired by Zen painting and the ensō motif, I also explore brief incursions into an imaginary landscape, often mineral. Matter accompanies movement. It carries its own imprint within a certain density and feeds a reflection on the material conditions that shape my work.

In a spiral progression, a moment closes one level within the cycle of time, opening the way to new developments.
Over the past years, powders and pulps have merged with paper, bringing me back into a three-dimensional space. Volumes emerge, objects organise space.
Time and memory leave their imprint there.

My research brings me closer to nature, to what lives and transforms around us. It maintains a constant attention to natural resources, their transformations, and the fragility of the environments from which they arise.