1964, Munichlives and works in Berlin

Biography

1964

Born in Munich, Germany

1987

Start of his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany

1989

Continued his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Fritz Schwegeler

1992

Cité des Arts, Paris, Frankreich

1993

M.A. in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1995

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

1996

Krupp von Bohlen Halbach Award for Contemporary photography

1997 

Schmidt-Rottluff Laureate for Fine Art

1997

Award of the Regional Capital of Munich for Photography

1998

DG-Bank Award for Artistic Photography

2003

Recontres d’Arles Award

Scholarship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo

2010

Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles

2011

Professor at the HFBK Hamburg with focus on photography

2018

"Großer Kunstpreis" of the state of Berlin

2021

"Kulturpreis" of the state of Bavaria

Solo Exhibitions

2020

House of Card, M – Museum, Leuven, Belgium

2016

Thomas Demand, Villa Paloma - Project Space, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

FOCUS: Thomas Demand, The Modern, Fort Worth, USA

2015

Modellstudien, Siza Pavillon, Stiftung Museumsinsel Hombroich, Neuss

Pacific Sun, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

2013

Model Studies, Graham Foundation, Chicago, USA

2012

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2010

Nationalgalerie, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2009

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Presidency. Embassy, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

2005

Thomas Demand, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA