Thomas Eller (artist)
Thomas Eller (born September 8, 1964 ) is a German artist , curator and author.
Career
Born and raised in Franconia, Eller left Nuremberg in 1985 to study fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts . After his forced de-registration , he studied religious studies, philosophy and art history at the Free University of Berlin . During this time he worked as a research assistant at the Social Research Center in Berlin .
From 1990 he had numerous exhibitions in European museums and galleries.
In 1995 he received the US Green Card and moved to New York . Exhibitions in galleries and museums in North and South America as well as in Asia and Europe followed. In 2004 he returned to Berlin and founded an online art magazine on the Internet platform artnet . As head of the German branch, he also organized sales in China and was the architect of the cooperation between artnet and the Art Basel art fair and the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions (BVDG).
From 2008 to mid-2009 Eller was managing director for the arts department of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin.
Eller has lived in Beijing since 2014. He is the president of the art magazine RanDian (燃点). In 2017 he founded the Gallery Weekend Beijing.
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Eller's photo sculptures are created from photographs laminated and exposed on aluminum , which are installed in front of the wall, on the floor or freely in the room with the help of hidden aluminum structures. Cutting out a photographed object does not remove the spatial context because the perspective is retained. However, the temporal context is cut away . So it can be experienced by the viewer in the immediate now of his perception. Nevertheless, the photo object has a spatial concept that is alien to the viewer's room. For example, one will always think of an object that was recorded by the camera in a top view. If you take this object and hang it above the viewer's eye level, the physical experience tells him during the visual process: “I am looking up”. This conflict: the eye says: “I'm looking down”, while the body signals: “I'm looking up”; this is indissoluble. As a result, Thomas Eller's photo sculptures assume an intermediate state between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional object.
In various groups of works such as “THE bounty” or “THE objectile”, Thomas Eller creates complex spatial structures in which the same objects, taken several times at different times, are located one behind the other on different spatial levels. Only in the perception does the viewer place the various objects in a meaningful temporal context. By focusing separately on the different spatial levels, the viewer perceives the individual levels in chronological order and thus sets an almost cinematic sequence in motion in his head. It appears as if you are seeing an object moving in space.
Awards
- 1996 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship
- 2000 Villa Romana Prize
- 2006 Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
literature
- Brigitte Bailer and Natalie Gutgesell (eds.): From a spark to a stream. With articles by Thomas (Eller) Wang and Stefan Voll . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-95462-941-1 .
- Inge Zimmermann (Ed.): Thomas Eller . Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2006. Academy of the Arts, Berlin 2006.
- Euridice Arratia: Manipulaciones . Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas 2005.
- Jörn Merkert: Art that originated in Berlin . Prestel Verlag, Munich 2004.
- Nicolas de Oliveira et al .: Installation Art in the New Millennium. Thames & Hudson, 2003, p. 189.
- Sam Rose: Simultaneous Vision . in: Thomas Eller. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation (ed.), Berlin 2000.
- Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk: Personal Touch, Art-in-General (ed.), New York 1998.
- Jan Winkelmann, Thomas Eller (Ill.): Who is Thomas Eller? S / W-Verlag, Mannheim 1994. ISBN 3-9803035-0-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Eller in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eller, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1964 |