Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand was born in 1964 in Munich , Germany . He studied at the art academies in Munich and Düsseldorf . He received a MFA from Goldsmiths , University of London . Since 2011 , he has been working as a professor at HFBK , the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . The artist lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles .
Thomas Demand trained as sculptor . His photographs are generally based on found press photographs . He builds elaborate models using colored paper and cardboard which he then photographs . Often the depicted images include oblique references to historically important sites or events . No writing appears in the recreated images . The life-sized mock-ups are then destroyed .
Thomas Demand ’ s work has been exhibited extensively . Selected solo exhibitions include : HOUSE OF CARD , Museum-M , Leuven ( 2020 – 21 ); The Boat is Leaking . The Captain Lied , Fondazione Prada , Ca ’ Corner della Regina , Venice ( 2017 ); Thomas Demand , Nouveau Musée National de Monaco , Villa Sauber – Project Space , Monaco ( 2016 ); FOCUS : Thomas Demand , The Modern , Fort Worth ( 2016 ); Daily Show , The Common Guild , Glasgow ( 2015 ); Modellstudien , Siza Pavillon , Raketenstation Hombroich , Neuss ( 2015 ); Pacific Sun , LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles ( 2015 ); Model Studies , Graham Foundation , Chicago ( 2013 ); Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo ( 2012 ) ( traveled to National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne ); The Dailies , Kaldor Public Art Projects # 25 , Sydney ( 2012 ); Nationalgalerie , Boijmans van Beuningen , Rotterdam ( 2010 ); Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin ( 2009 ); Presidency . Embassy , MUMOK , Museum Moderner Kunst , Vienna ( 2009 ), and Thomas Demand , The Museum of Modern Art , New York ( 2005 ).
Demand participated in the 50th Venice Biennale ( 2003 ) and represented Germany at the 26th São Paulo Biennial ( 2004 ). In 2011 , Demand curated the critically acclaimed exhibition La Carte d ’ après Nature at the Nouveau Musée National in Monaco and , more recently , L ’ image volée at Fondazione Prada , Milan ( 2016 ).
Selected group exhibitions include : Continuously Contemporary . New Works from the Emanuel- Hoffmann-Stiftung , Kunstmuseum Basel , Basel ( 2020 ); JSC ON VIEW : Works from the Collection , Julia Stoschek Collection , Düsseldorf ( 2020 ); Cut ! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography , The J . Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles ( 2018 ); Jardins , Grand Palais , Paris ( 2017 ); Dreamlands : Immersive Cinema and Art , 1905 – 2016 , Whitney Museum , New York ( 2016 ); The Candle , Museum Frieder Burda , Baden-Baden ( 2016 ); TELE-Gen . Art and Television , Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein , Vaduz ( 2016 ) and Kunstmuseum Bonn ( 2015 ); Future Present , Schaulager , Basel ( 2015 ); Now You See It . Photography and Concealment , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ( 2014 ); Room Service , Staatliche Kunsthalle zu Baden-Baden ( 2014 ); Damage Control : Art and Destruction Since 1950 , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Smithsonian Institute , Washington , D . C . ( 2013 ); Common Ground , Architecture Biennale , Venice ( 2012 ), and Lifelike , Walker Art Center , Minneapolis ( 2012 ).
His work is represented in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art , New York ; Solomon R . Guggenheim Museum , New York ; Walker Art Center , Minneapolis ; Museum Folkwang , Essen ; National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa ; Tate Modern , London ; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington , D . C .; Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago , and Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia .
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