THOMAS DEMAND

Born: Munich, 1964

Education: Goldsmith's College, London, 1993-94
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1990-92
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, 1987-90

Currently lives and works in Berlin.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2012
Thomas Demand: Animations, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Traveled to DHC Art Center, Montreal
Thomas Demand, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Thomas Demand, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Will travel to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Thomas Demand, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Thomas Demand: The Dailies, Sprüth Magers, London
Thomas Demand: The Dailies, Kaldor Public Art Projects #25, Sydney (catalogue)

2010
Thomas Demand, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

2009
Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Presidency Embassy, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

2008
Thomas Demand, Sprüth Magers, London
Thomas Demand, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (catalogue)
Camera, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Black Label, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (catalogue)

2007
Salzburger Festspiele, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg
L'esprit d'Escalier, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (catalogue)

2006
Max Beckmann und Thomas Demand, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Tunnel, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)

2005
Thomas Demand, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

2004
Phototrophy, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (catalogue)
São Paulo Biennale (catalogue)

2003
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)

2002
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (catalogue)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin (catalogue)

2001
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Thomas Demand con Caruso St. John architetti, Galleri d'art moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Florence (catalogue)
Report, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (catalogue)
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX. Traveled to the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO and SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue)


2000
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (catalogue)
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne

1999
Art Now: Thomas Demand: Tunnel, Tate Britain, London

1998
Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

1997
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Centre d'art contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin, France


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2013
Heimsuchung. Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

2012
The Studio: Workshop and Myth from Spitzweg to Picasso from Giacometti to Nauman, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
13th International Architecture Exhibition: Common Ground, Architecture Biennale, Venice
Primer Acto, Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, Santa FE, NM. Traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Looking Back For The Future, Kunsthalle Zürich
Lost Places, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt
An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, St. Louis Art Museum
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art and The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. Will travel to Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of an Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Will travel to Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

2011
Real Space Conceptual Space, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath College of Fine Arts, Bangalore, India
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London
Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Small Collections Room: Postcards from the World Beneath: the collection of Gerhard Stein, curated by Thomas Demand, Nottingham Contemporary, The Small Collections Room, Nottingham, England
This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool
No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
New Contemporary Galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Presence, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
September 11, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kunsthalle Macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Light-Sensitive: Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
Photography Calling! Photography and the Present, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit, Akademie-Galerie der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Saal (Hall), 2011, Städel Museum, Frankfurt

2010
Realism, The Adventure of Reality: Courbet, Hopper, Gursky..., Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich and Kunsthal Rotterdam
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU SEE, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London. Traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Dissolve, SITE Sante Fe Eighth International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
A Moving Plan B: Chapter One, The Drawing Room, London
La Carte D’Après Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Traveled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, England

Global Design, Museum of Design Zürich


2009
Extended. Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka
Yellow and Green, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2° Bienal del fin del mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina
Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Russian Linesman, Hayward Gallery, London
Event Horizon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
MOCA'S First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Industrial. Light. Magic, Goethe-Institut, New York

2008
Questioning History, The Past in the Present, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Reality Check, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
What You See Is What You Get, Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale
Interieur/Exterieur, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Real.Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Spiegel Geheimer Wünsche, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
…5 minutes later, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
WAR & ART, Kyoto University of Art and Design

2007
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives. Traveled to CAPC Museé d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
MUDAM Guest House 07, Musee D'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Photography: will dethrone painting, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône, France
Guggenheim Collection, National Gallery, Victoria, Australia
FLASHCUBE, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul
Clio: A short history of art in Euramerica after 1945, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
cross-border. Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel (PartII), Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
RAUM. Orte der Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis. Traveled to Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany (catalogue)
Paint it blue: Works from the ACT Art Collection|Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Mondi Possibili, Sprüth Magers, Cologne
Under the Starry Sky. Works from the Willy Michel Collection, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Momentos Estelares, Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid

2006
The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Gold Standard, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Spectacular City, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam. Traveled to NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
The Blue Rider in the Twenty First Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
6th Shanghai Biennale: Hyper Design, Shanghai
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Thomas Demand/Gregor Schneider: Works from the Olbricht Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Werkgruppen und Installationen, Kunstmuseum Basel
Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Faszination Fussball, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserlautern, Germany
Constructing new Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum. Traveled to the Bass Museum, Miami
Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize, National Museum, Cardiff, Wales
Gut + Böse. Politik, Kunst, Gesellschaft, Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
Auto-Nom-Mobile, Kunstverein Kassel

2005
Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Thank you for the Music, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
Out There: Landscape in the new Millennium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Nach Rokytnik. Die Sammlung der EVN, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Das verlorene Paradies - Die Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Photographie, Siftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Very early pictures, Luckman Gallery, The California State University, Los Angeles
Multiple Räume: Park, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
After the Fact, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, England
Atlantic & Bukarest, Kunstmuseum Basel
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Traveled to White Columns, New York

2004
Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
ArchiSculpture, Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Vaerker og Dage. Nyerhvervelser I Louisianas Samling 2004-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Love/Hate from Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Jede Fotografie ein Bild, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

2003
Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Real Space Conceptual Space, Anna Achmatowa Museum, St. Petersburg. Traveled to Museum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland
Adorno: Die Möglichkeit des Unmöglichen, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Berlin/Moskau – Moskau/Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Traveled to State Historical Museum, Moscow
Contemporary German Photography, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Neo Rauch und Europäische Gegenwartskunst, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Eden, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Centro Histórico, Guadalajara, Mexico
Interludes, Venice Biennale
20th Anniversary Show, Sprüth Magers, Cologne
Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Zeitgenössische Deutsche Fotografie, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Imaginando espacios, recreando realidades. Colección Fundación ARCO, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. Traveled to the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL

2002
Thomas Demand, Yasumasa Morimura, Fred Tomaselli, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Great Theatre of the World, 3rd Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Everyday Utopias, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
Andere Räume, Kunstverein Hamburg
True Fictions, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
non-places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Trade, Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam

2001
Loop, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
La Natura della natura morta da Mane tai nostri giorni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Klasse Schwegler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Ich bin mein Auto, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Connivence, Biennale de Lyon, France
TRADE. Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich. Traveled to Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Thomas Demand and Caruso St John, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Inside House, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Orléans, France
Tempted to Pretend, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Und keiner hinkt, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Tracking, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Big nothing, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

2000
Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Supermodel, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
DAAD: Weltwårts, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
La forma del mondo/la fine del mondo, Padiglione d`Arte Contemporaneo, Milan
Open Ends: Sets and Situations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Die Künstlerstiftung: 25 Jahre Karl Schmidt-Rotluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Die Scheinbaren Dinge, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Clip City/City Vision, Media City Seoul, Metropolitan Museum, Seoul
Négociations, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Sète, France
Deep Distance, Kunsthalle Basel
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1999
Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet Umeå, Umeå, Sweden. Traveled to Casetllo di Rivoli, Turin; Vancouver Art Gallery; Tramway, Glasgow; and Charlottensborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
Children of Berlin: Cultural Developments 1989-1999, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Can you hear me? 2nd Ars Baltica Triennal of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany and Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Fotografie und Archiv, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Kraftwerk Berlin, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Grosse Illusionen (Great Illusions: Demand, Gursky, Ruscha), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Tomorrow for Ever. Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Traveled to Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
Spaced Out: Late 1990s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Insight-Out: landschaft und Interiur als Themen zeitgenössischer Photographie, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria. Traveled to Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel

1998
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale
Every Day, Biennale of Sydney
Être Nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
DG Bank-Preis für künstlerische Fotografie, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Vollkommen gewöhnlich, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. Traveled to Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; and Kunstsammlung Gera, Germany
Artificial, Museu d´Art Contemporani, Barcelona

1997
Elsewhere, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Stills: Emerging Photography in the 90's, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Heaven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen zu Gast im Bonner Kunstverein, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Transit, Centre national des arts plastiques and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland seit 1945, Berlinische Galerie and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Une Minute Scenario (par Jerome Sans), Le Printemps de Cahors/Fondation Cartier, Cahors, France
Making It Real, Organized by Independent Curators Incorporated. Traveled to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1996
Raumbilder–Bildräume, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
New Photography 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d'arte contemporaneo, Turin. Traveled to Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Radical Images, 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Traveled to Szombathelyi Képtàr, Szombathely, Hungary
Prospect 96—Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Passions privées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1995
Ars Viva 1995 – Thomas Demand, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Barbara Probst und Jochen Lempert, Kunstverein Frankfurt. Traveled to Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Morceaux Choisis du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Magasin-Centre National d´art contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

1994
Scharf im Schauen, Haus der Kunst, Munich

1992
Photoladen, Kunstwekstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich