BIOGRAFIE
1964 | geboren in München |
1987 - 1990 | Studium an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München |
1990 - 1992 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
1993 - 1994 | Goldsmiths College London Master of Fine Arts |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2012 | The Dailies, Kardor Public Art Project #25 Kunst Gesprach 02 Thomas Demand, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany Model Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
2011 | Thomas Demand, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea Tales of the City: Art Fund International and The Goma Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK Photography Calling, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany September 11, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA No Substitute, Glenstone, Potomac, USA Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 20 Jahre Gegenwart: MMK 1991-2011, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany New Contemporary Galleries – Featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA Things are Queer: Highlights of UniCredit Art Collection, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, UK |
2010 – 2011 | La carte d’après nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco; travelled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London; travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
2010 | People Meet in Architecture, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy A Moving Plan B: Chapter One, The Drawing Room, London, UK Zu(m) Tisch, Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum, Petach Tikva, Israel The Reach of Realism,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA Realism: The Adventure of Reality – Courbet, Hopper, Gursky…, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany; travelled to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; and Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Julia Stoschek Collection: I Want to See How You See, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Thomas Demand, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Nationalgalerie Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
2009 – 2010 | Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; travelled to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
2009 | Yellow and Green, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany 2° Bienal del fin del mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan The Russian Linesman, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Manipulating Reality, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy Event Horizon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA MoCA'S First 30 Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Industrial. Light. Magic, Goethe-Institut, New York, USA |
2008 | Camera, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Black Label, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan Questioning History: The Past in the Present, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Reality Check, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Don't Let Me be Misunderstood, World Class Boxing, Miami, USA What You See is What You Get, Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg Untitled(Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Interieur/Exterieur, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Troubled Waters, Sempergalerie am Zwinger, Dresden, Germany Real: Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Spiegel Geheimer Wünsche, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany WAR & ART, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan The Same River Twice: Part 1, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia |
2007 | L'esprit d'Escalier, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, presented by Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy Mondi Possibili, Galerie Monika Spr�th Philomene Magers, Köln/Cologne Paint it Blue, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen Unter Sternen. Aus der Sammlung Willy Michel. Fotografie, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Schweiz Cross-Border. Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris If everybody had an Ocean, Tate St. Ives, GB Flash Cube, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 303 Gallery, New York Fondazione Prada, Isola di Giorgio Maggiore, Venice Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
2006 – 2009 | Der Blaue Reiter im 21. Jahrhundet, Lenbachhaus Mïünchen, Munich |
2006 | Serpentine Gallery, London Esther Schipper, Berlin Max Beckmann and Thomas Demand, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize, National Museum, Cardiff ArchiSKULPTUR, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg Thomas Demand/Gregor Schneider: Werke aus der Sammlung Olbricht, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen Thomas Demand und Max Beckmann, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M The Gold Standard, P.S. 1 MoMA, New York Winterausstellung, Esther Schipper, Berlin German Photography, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, USA Wrong, Klosterfelde Galerie, Berlin Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung. Werkgruppen und Installationen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Faszination Fussball, Fussball in der Bildenden Kunst, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien/Vienna, Austria Spectacular City. Photographing the Future, Niederländisches Architekturinstitut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; weitere Station / travelled to NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf Gut + Böse. Politik, Kunst, Gesellschaft, Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid, Germany Auto-Nom-Mobil, Kunstverein Kassel Klause, Esther Schipper, Berlin Regen Projects, Los Angeles |
2005 – 2006 | Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art |
2005 | ArchiSKULPTUR, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao After the Fact, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle Multiple Räume: Park, Kunsthalle Baden Baden Kunst und Pressebild nach 1945, Kunstmuseum Basel Paysages: Constructions and Simulations, Casino Luxembourg Victoria Miro Gallery, London Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Paysages: Constructions et Simulations, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
2004 – 2005 | Sculpture, Precarious Sculptures between the Melancholy and the Comical, Kunsthalle Wien |
2004 | German Pavillion, 26th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo Phototrophy, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz Vaerker og Dage. Nyerhvervelser i Louisianas samling 2000-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Die Zehn Gebote, Dresdner Hygienemuseum, Dresden Sculptural Sphere, Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, Mark Manders, Manfred Pernice, Liisa Roberts, Tom Sachs, Sammlung Goetz, Munich Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin, Staatliches Historisches Museum, Moscow Memory and Lanscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin Sculptural Sphere, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany The Office, The Photographers Gallery, London 303 gallery, New York Bienal de Sao Paulo |
2003 – 2004 | Jede Fotografie ein Bild, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
2003 | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin Adorno, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt OUTLOOK, organized by the Cultural Olympiad, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Athens 50th Venice Biennale, Giardini, Venice Contemporary Collecting: New Art for Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery Archive and Simulation, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon horizonte, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland La Photographie Allemande, Galerie Art & Public, Zeitgenössische Deutsche Fotografie, Museum Folkwang, Essen Re-Produktion, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Imperfect Innocence. The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida Galleri K, Oslo, Norwegen, Norway 20th Anniversary Show, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
2002 – 2003 | Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |
2002 | Site, Santa Fe non-places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Real Space, Conceptual Space, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand andere räume, other spaces, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg Screen Memories, Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Centre, Japan Balsam-Exhibiton der Fussballseele, Helmhaus, Zurich In Szene gesetzt, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe Paarungen, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Trade, Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam La natura della natura morta da Manet ai nostri giorni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna Great Theatre of the World, 2002 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Lenbachhaus, Munich Castello di Rivoli, Turin Hof, Schipper & Krome, Berlin |
2001 | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Galleria d'arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Florence De Appel, Amsterdam ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas Report, Sprengel Museum, Hannover 303 Gallery, New York Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Und keiner hinkt, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Ich bin mein Auto, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Biennale de Lyon, Lyon Inside House, Orleans Museum of Fine Arts Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Und keiner hinkt, Kunstmuseum Kleve Tempted to Pretend, Kunsthalle Kaufbeuren Tracking, CCAC, San Francisco Big Nothing, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Open End. 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art. from 1960 to Now - Sets and Situations, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2000 Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA Big Nothing, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany Trade. Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland Sprengel Museum Hannover |
2000 – 2001 | Fondation Cartier pour l�Art Contemporain, Paris |
2000 | Cartier Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain. Paris, France Les rumeurs urbaines/Urban Rumours, FriArt, Fribourg La forma del mondo/la fine del mondo, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milan Négociations, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain à Sète Cross-Roads. Artists in Berlin, Sala Plaza de Espa�a de la Comunidad, Madrid Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, MoCA, San Diego/La Jolla Victoria Miro Gallery, London Monika Sprüth Gallery, Cologne Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich Les Rumeurs Urbaines / Urban Rumors, FriArt, Fribourg, France La forma del mondo / la fine del mondo, Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Mailand/Milan, Italy Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeak, Denmark Perfidy La Tourette, l'Arbresle, France Clip City / City Vision - Media City Seoul, Seoul, South-Korea Die scheinbaren Dinge, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Negociations, CRAC - Centre regional d'Art Conremporain, Sete, France Deep Distance, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Cruce de Caminos / Crossroads, Communidad de Madrid, Spain Supermodel, MoCa Mass, North Adams, USA Contemporary Dioramas, San Diego Museum of Art Age of Influence, MCA, Chicago |
1999 – 2000 | Can you hear me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial ofPhotographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel / Kunsthalle Rostock Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA |
1999 | fotografie und archiv. gestern war heute, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm The Mirror's Edge Bild Museet, Umea 'The Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Tunnel, Art Now 17, Tate Gallery, London Space, Schipper & Krome, Berlin Grand Illusions - Demand Gursky Ruscha, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Mirrors Edge, Bildmuseet Umea, Schweden/Sweden; Vancouver; Turin; Glasgow Can You Hear Me?, 2. Ars Baltica-Triennale, Kiel, Germany Contemplating Pollock, Victoria Miro Gallery, London Grosse Illusionen, Kunstmuseum Bonn; MOCA Miami Wohin kein Auge reicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Restructing Space, Architectural Association, London Objects in Rear Mirror..., Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Children of Berlin, P.S.1, New York Anarchitecture, De Appel, Amsterdam Kraftwerk Berlin, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh |
1998 | Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland Berlin Bienalle Berlin, Germany The End is the Beginning, Bricks & Kicks, Wien/Vienna, Austria, P.S.1, New York Zone, Fondazione Re Rebaudengo per per l'Arte, Guarene d`Alba, Berlin Biennale Vollkommen gewöhnlich, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany View One, Mary Boone Gallery, New York Exterminated Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Artificial, MACBA, Barcelona City Bank Photography Prize 97/98, Photographers Gallery, London Sydney Biennale Site Construction, South London Gallery, London Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Mailand/Milan, Italy 303 Gallery, New York |
1997 | Centre d`Art contemporain de Vassiviere en Limousin Gallery Victoria Miro, London Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland nach 1945, Martin-Gropius-Bau/Berlinische Galerie, Berlin The Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York Making it real, ICI/the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield Conneticut a. o. (touring) Defamillar, Regen Projects, Los Angeles The Set-Up: Demand, Crewdson, Morimura, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam Une Minute Scenario, Le Printemps de Cahors/Fondation Cartier, Cahors Transit, ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris Demand/Ketter, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland Elsewhere at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh |
1996 | New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Radical Images, Joanneum, Steir. Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria Fotografia nell`arte tedesca contemporanea, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy Ritratti di Interno, Studio la Citta Verona, Italy Prospect `96, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M, Germany Passion privee, Musee d`art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France Raumbilder-Bildräume, Museum Folkwang, Essen Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d`arte contemporanea Torino, Turin, Italy New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Max Protech Gallery, New York Galerie Tanit, Munich Galerie de l`ancienne Poste, Calais |
1992 | Galerie Tanit. Munich, Germany - first solo exhibition |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2010 - 2011 | Stipendiat am Getty Research Institute Los Angeles |
2003 | Rencontres d’Arles Award |
1998 | DG-Bank Award for Artistic Photography |
1997 | Schmidt-Rottluff Laureate for Fine Art Villa Massimo, Rom (beginning of the scholarship 2003) Award of the Regional Capital of Munich for Photography, Germany |
1996 | Culture Laureate of the Association of German Industry Krupp von Bohlen Halbach Award for Contemporary Photography |
1995 | Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany Scholarship of the Bavarian State for New York, NY |
1995 | DAAD Foreign Exchange Scholarship, London, UK |
1993 | Cité des Arts, Paris |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn Schaulager Basel |