Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Straightforward, critical and witty, Smits is a ceaseless producer of ideas that comment on society and situations in a frank and often humorous way.

Contact
Helmut Smits
Talingstraat 5
3082 MG Rotterdam
The Netherlands
mail@helmutsmits.nl
+31 6 145 06 889

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Selected Exhibitions
2018  Connected - East Meets West, TOP Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018  IKEA Hacked, Our Products, Your Ideas, IKEA Museum, Almhult, SE
2018  Bien Urbain Festival, Besancon, FR
2018  Artist Flags for 'De Mastplanters', 019 Ghent, BE
2018  Enter the Past and See the Future, Hotel Droog
2018  Ticket to de Toekomst, Villa Zebra
2018  When Attitudes Becomes Form, Rome, IT
2018  Stream Capture, MCAD, Minneapolis, US
2018  All Our Friends, KK Outlet, UK
2017  The Embasy of Food, DDW 2017
2017  Change the System, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
2017  Stickey Business, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2017  Brno Art Open 2017, Czech Republic
2017  Zero Footprint Campus, Utrecht Science Park
2017  You Say You Know You Will You Do, Fresh Window Gallery, NY
2017  Fabulous Failures, Museum Le Botanique, BE
2017  Frame's KitchenLab, IMM, Cologne DE
2016  Dream out Loud, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2016  Fabulous Failures, Les Recontres d'Arles, FR
2016  Measuring: This much, That much, How much?", Songshan Cult. Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2016  Domestic Affairs, Shenzhen China and Doha Qatar
2015  Romantik, August, Cologne, Germany
2015  Cuckoo festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2015  TodaysArt Festival, The Hague
2015  Volta 11, Fresh Window, Basel, Switzerland
2015  Happy Birthday, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2015  Measuring: This much, That much, How much?", 21_21 Design Sight, JP
2015  Domestic Affairs, Passagen Cologne
2014  Sense Nonsense, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2014  The Value of Nothing, TENT, Rotterdam
2014  Game Changer, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO, US
2014  Construct – de – construct, Droog Gallery, Amsterdam
2014  Designing Scarcity, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2014  First Eleven, KK Outlet, London, UK
2014  Outrun, Fresh Window, Brooklyn, NY
2013  Design in Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2013  Small Gestures, MU, Eindhoven
2013  Petites résistances, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2013  Welcome to the Real, Temp, New York, US
2013  Money's Worth, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Belgium
2013  Some Things, Beginnings Gallery, New York, US
2012  Identity Land - DroogLab, Z33, Belgium
2012  Swedish for Argument, UTS Gallery Sydney, Australia
2012  Skirting Board Sunset for The Sculpture House, London Design Festival, UK
2012  Photogenus, University of Cincinnati, US
2012  An Exhibition of Texts, Sometimes, Cape Town, South Africa
2012  Objects in Mirror, Fotodok, Utrecht
2011  Arbeit Nervt, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2011  Changes, Auf AEG, Nürnberg, Germany
2011  Our Complex, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland
2011  Analogue, The Luminary centre for the Arts, St. Louis, US
2011  Changes, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany
2011  Time Space Casuality, Bari, Italy
2010  Voicemail project orchestrated by Davide Balula, Palais de Tokyo, France
2010  Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial 2010, France
2010  More or Less, Sofia Design Week, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010  Giant Bowl On Monuments Day, Oslo, Norway
2010  Electrified II, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2010  CRW - contemporary reflection on war, BKS Garage, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010  War / Individual, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Germany
2009  Laughing prohibited, De Bruine Heer, Eindhoven
2009  Different Places - Different Stories, Viersen, Germany
2009  Prix de Rome 2009, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2009  Repairing, Platform21, Amsterdam
2009  Hacking IKEA, The biennale de Montréal, Canada
2008  YES, Mama, Rotterdam
2008  Sweet Summer Nights, Kröller-Müller Museum
2008  One weekend show II, HWW, Rotterdam
2008  Brabant Now, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
2007  Rock My Religion, OdaPark, Venray
2007  EgoArt Prize 2006, Bastart Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007  Vitarti, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2007  Bizarre love triangle, Fette’s Gallery LA, US
2007  Art Rotterdam, Dubbelbee Gallery
2006  Code Strate, Brussel, Belgium
2006  Eastern Neighbours, Babel Tower, Utrecht
2006  AEKI, KOP Foundation, Breda
2006  €10.000 Show, W139, Amsterdam