Tim Schmelzer, born 1968 in Bielefeld, Germany, has been living and working in Vienna as a projection artist since 1999. The emphasis of his work is on the creation of original visual forms of expression for presentation in public space via projections. The visual artwork was projected on noted Austrian art institutions, museums, cultural events and also on international light art festivals. In 2003 Tim Schmelzer foundet the light art collective Lichttapete in Vienna, and in 2020 he established Lumine Projections, a company for conceptual projection design.
Tim Schmelzer has expanded the range of his light art projects with landscape and building projections in Ireland emphasizing photographic documentation. In addition to projection art he is especially interested in photography, in particular as a means to document his impressions while traveling through Ireland.