Tomas Schmit, „zyklus for water-pails (or bottles)“, 1962, performed by himself in „De Kleine Komedie”, Amsterdam 1963 (photo: Dorine van der Klei)

Tomas Schmit, „aktion ohne publikum“, 1965, performed by himself at „24 Stunden“, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal 1965 (photo: Hanns Sohm / Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)

Tomas Schmit and Emmett Williams performing at “Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Musik und Antikunst – Das Instrumentale Theater”, Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, February 1963 (photo: Manfred Leve)

Performance of George Maciunas’ “In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti” at “Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Musik und Antikunst – Das Instrumentale Theater”, Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, February 1963. Left to right: Tomas Schmit, Nam June Paik, Arthur Köpcke, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, Frank Townbridge and Bengt af Klintberg (photo: Manfred Leve)

Poster for Nam June Paik's "Exposition of Music. Electronic Television", Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal 1963.

Cover of the catalogue for the "Festival der Neuen Kunst" (Festival of New Art), July 20, 1964, TH Aachen, edited by Wolf Vostell and Tomas Schmit (the festival was organised by Valdis Abolins and Tomas Schmit).

Ludwig Gosewitz, Maruta Schmidt and Tomas Schmit at Berlin Tiergarten ca. 1965

Tomas Schmit at the opening of his solo show at “Jysk Kunstgalerie” in Copenhagen 1969 (photo: unknown)

“music while you work” by Arthur Köpcke, performed at Forumtheater Berlin 1970. Left to right: Tomas Schmit, Arthur Köpcke, Emmett Williams und Marianne Filliou, Al Hansen, Carolee Schneeman, Valerie Herouvis (photo: Armin Hundertmark)

Nino Malfatti, Angelika Margull, Fritz Margull, Andrea Tippel, Mischa Mengelberg and Tomas Schmit at Jazzfestival Berlin 1976 (photos: fmp / Dagmar Gebers)

Cover "katalog 1", Kunstverein Cologne 1978. Tomas Schmit at his writing-desk in his flat in Berlin, Bleibtreustrasse 3 (photo: Dagmar Gebers)

Tomas Schmit and Michael Werner at Galerie Werner in Cologne, 1980ies (photo: Dietmar Schneider)

Tomas Schmit presenting his book "first draft (of a central aesthetics)", 1989, at the bookshop Walther König in Cologne on June 7, 1990 (photo: Dietmar Schneider)

Tomas Schmit in the exhibition space of Edition Hundertmark in Cologne, early 90ies (photo: Benjamin Katz)

Tomas Schmit lecturing about music at the academy of arts in Braunschweig, 1997

Tomas Schmit with Brigitte Kölle and Kasper König during the setup of his exhibition at Portikus in Frankfurt am Main 1997. Image from Heike Bayrle, Portikus under construction. Tomas Schmit (Film still)

Foreword by Nam June Paik for "katalog 3" by Tomas Schmit, published on the occasion of his show at Portikus in Frankfurt/M. 1997

Tomas Schmit and Barbara Wien in Erlangen in front of Galerie Beck, 2000 (photo: Manfred Leve)

„lucas-turm“ – performance by Tomas Schmit in the cinema Metropolis (Frankfurt on the Main, November 22, 2002) in the course of the exhibition „Grotesk! 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit“ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt on the Main (photo: Corinna Gab)

Barbara Wien, Tomas Schmit and Eva von Platen in the Galerie Wien, November 2002

Wilma Lukatsch makes a speech at the opening of Tomas Schmit's exhibtion at Kunsthalle Bremerhaven July 10, 2005. Left to right: Rainer Noeres, Tomas Schmit, unknown visitors, Wilma Lukatsch, Jürgen Wesseler

Kasper König delivers a speech on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Tomas Schmit. Are Humans Capable of Thought?" April 20, 2007 at Museum Ludwig in Cologne (photo: RBA, Cologne)

Exhibition view. "Tomas Schmit. Pieces, Actions, Documents 1962–1970", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), 2021. © Photo: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe

Exhibition view. "Tomas Schmit. Pieces, Actions, Documents 1962–1970", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), 2021. © Photo: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) / Jens Ziehe

Poster of the exhibition "making t h i n g s. tomas schmit. drawing, action, language 1970 - 2006", Kupferstichkabinett - State Museums Berlin, 2021.

"m a k i n g things. Tomas Schmit. Drawing, Action, Language, 1970–2006, ed. by Jenny Graser in collaboration with Barbara Wien, Berlin 2021

Tomas Schmit, "katalog 1 - 4", ed. by Barbara Wien, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, and Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2021. Reprint of "katalog 1 – 3" and re-designed second edition of "katalog 4" published on the occasion of the Tomas Schmit Retrospective in Berlin 2021/22

"Tomas Schmit. Works, Texts, Documents, 1962–1970", ed. by Marius Babias, Krisztina Hunya and Barbara Wien, vol. 26 of the series n.b.k. Exhibitions, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne 2024.