CONTACT


IG: @sigrid_schmeisser
E-mail: hi@sigridschmeisser.com

Sigrid Schmeisser (AT/NL) is a geodesigner and artistic researcher whose practice is characterized by a site-responsive approach resulting in a range of multi-media based outcomes. A focus lies on investigating landfills as postnatural landscapes within the long-term project »Centre to Periphery«. It includes a lecture performance (premiered at Dutch Design Week 2023, Soil Horizons 2024), and adapted live-version for the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, 2024. 

Other chapters include ongoing documentary photography, artistic publications, and an award-winning essay (Avery Review, July 2024). A second interest are more-than-human relationships including species with invasive behavior (»Solidago«), and foregrounding plants as agents and indicators within ecosystems (»Raccogliere Magazine«). Together with visual artist Miguel Teodoro she is currently working on a new editorial project focussed on soils (Soil Horizons).

Schmeisser holds an MA (Edinburgh College of Art, 2013) and an MFA in Geo-Design (Design Academy Eindhoven, 2025). 
2025 EXHIBITION
TENT Gallery, Rotterdam
part of Collective Wasteland Festival

2025 LECTURE PERFORMANCE
HET NIEUEWE Instituut, Rotterdam
part of Collective Wasteland Festival

2025 WORKSHOP
Debris Spring School

2024 ON/OFFSITE LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Invited and curated by the SAM, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (SAM) and Soundcamp Cooperative (S AM FM project)
Centre to Periphery (site-responsive performances
in SAM and locations nearby)

2024 TALK & LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Soil Horizons, NL
World Soil Museum, Wageningen
How to Hide a Mountain (performance)

2024 ESSAY PRIZE
Avery Review Journal, edition 69
How to Hide a Mountain

2024 CONFERENCE
Thick Mapping Panel, UK
Abstract presentation
Searching for the Dutch Mountains

2023 CONFERENCE
Uncertain Landscapes, PT
Abstract presentation
How to Hide A Mountain

2023 TALK
Wasteland Collective, NL
Centre To Periphery

2023 LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Dutch Design Week, NL
How to Hide a Mountain (performance)

2023 TALK
AA VS Terrain Lab, IT
Raccogliere Magazine

2023 TALK
Venice Design Biennale, IT
Raccogliere Magazine

2022 EXHIBITION
Raccogliere exhibited at the
Symbiocene Forest Group Exhibition,
Dutch Design Week 2022, NL

2022 CONFERENCE
Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human
Conference, CH
Solidago, Mediating the Land

2021   WINNER
TDC Type Directors Club New York,
Communication Design

2021 BRONZE AWARD
European Design Award

2021 SHORTLIST & LONGLIST
Best German Design Books

2021 MERIT AWARD
ADC, Art Directors Club of New York,
Communication Design

2020 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 2
Open 20/21, Amsterdam, NL
Photography Group Exhibition

2020 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 2
Ways of Seeing, Glasgow, UK
Photography Group Exhibition

2020 EXHIBITION
RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK:
Present Voices–Future Lives travel exhibition
and public engagement workshops with
Chris Leslie, Collective Architecture and ESALA

2019 Shortlist
The Herald Cultural Award, Edinburgh

2019 Shortlist
Creative Edinburgh Award

2019 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 1  
Discourse Artist
Group Exhibition

2014 BOOK FEATURE
Stories in 140 Characters featured
in Library as Incubator

2013 EXHIBITION
Central Inspiration Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Stories in 140 Characters
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