SINA SOPHIA SCHMIDT - Exchange

21 x 14.8cm
Pigment, oil and wax on paper.

Sina-Sophia Schmidt (b. 2000) is a painter and filmmaker currently living in Dortmund, Germany. She grew up in Duisburg, Germany and completed her BA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021. 

Sina’s paintings explore invisible realms of experience - emotions, intuitive knowledge, and metaphysical states that resist language. Her works hold human vulnerability while gesturing toward a broader sense of presence.

Working intuitively and with chance, she builds and excavates surfaces through layering and sanding, allowing images to emerge over time. Moving between abstraction and figuration, the work draws from dreams, photography, and online imagery, treating painting as both a material pleasure and an emotional vessel - where the immaterial, the digital, and lived experience intersect.

Her work in film extends this approach. Using the medium in an experimental, painterly way, she creates stories removed from the real world that offer alternative ways of sensing, understanding, and being.