Thomas Neumann (artist)

Thomas Neumann (* 1975 in Cottbus ) is a German artist .

Life

Neumann spent his childhood and youth in Cottbus and Königs Wusterhausen . After a stay in Leipzig , he studied from 1997 to 2004 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd and Hilla Becher and with Thomas Ruff , where he graduated as a master class student.

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Inspired by his roots in East Germany , Neumann is interested in the architectural and historical legacy of the communist Eastern Bloc . This is how the series “homo sovieticus” (1998–2002), “Pictures from Utopia” (2003–2005), “Unbuilt City” (2007), “1984 News from Utopia” (2003), and “Star flight and apple blossom” ( 2013). As a curator, Neumann organized the project “Congress of Futurologists”, which took place in 2007 and 2008 in the planned socialist cities of Eisenhüttenstadt and Dunaújváros . With “Monument for a City” (2006) Neumann began his work on large-scale installations that combine photography and sculpture. For the installation "Geister" (2009) he won the Bergischer Kunstpreis 2010. The overview exhibition "Exact Confidence Limits. Photography since 1994" took place in 2020 in the Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf.

Influenced by a two-year stay in Japan , Neumann began to be interested in landscape photography. This was followed by the series “Mori” (from 2012) and “Ishi” (from 2013), which were incorporated into the book “The Japanese Series” (2015). In response to the triple catastrophe in Fukushima in 2011 , he published the book "March Days" in Revolver Verlag.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2020 Exact Confidence Limits, HPZ Foundation, Weltkunstzimmer , Düsseldorf
• 2018 Mindscape. Japan , Museums Dresden, Technical Collections , Dresden
• 2018 Matrix , Gallery Nomart, Osaka, Japan
• 2016 Mori.Ishi , Gallery Nomart, Osaka, Japan
• 2015 The Japanese Series , guest room, Hans Peter Zimmer Foundation, Düsseldorf
• 2008 Unbuilt City , Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
• 2006 Distortions , Goethe-Institut Paris, France
• 2005 Pictures from Utopia , activist, Eisenhüttenstadt
• 2005 The Lithuanian Missile , CAIC, Vilnius, Lithuania
• 1998 Sequences , Galerie Markt 21, Weimar

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2020 Subject and Object , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
• 2019 Die Grosse , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf
• 2019 dimensions variable 4 , Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten
• 2019 Boundaries: Photographic Expressions from Japan and Germany , HRD Fine Art, Kyoto, Japan
• 2018 Questioning Photography Now , The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing , China
• 2018 Good Outlook Deluxe , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
• 2017 Compilation , Hans Peter Zimmer Foundation, Düsseldorf
• 2017 Static Scope , Akibatamabi 21, Gallery of Tama Art University , Tokyo, Japan
• 2017 New german photography beyond the Düsseldorf School , Museo de la Cancillería , Mexico City, Mexico
• 2016 The typological view , SK Foundation Culture , Cologne
• 2016 dimensions variable , Kunstraum Düsseldorf
• 2014 Words and Photographs, Seeds of Remembrance Fukushima , Setagaya Lifestyle Design Center, Tokyo, Japan
• 2014 8th Darmstadt Days of Photography , Darmstadt
• 2013 Water and Plant , Gallery Nomart, Osaka, Japan
• 2013 Brise Soleil , Artspace Estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2012 Pattern recognition , Museum for Applied Art , Cologne
• 2011 Soramame - Heavenly Beans , Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
• 2011 Approaching Art by Leaving Art Behind , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
• 2010 Landscape I-IV , Gallery of Artists, Munich
• 2010 64th Bergische Kunstausstellung , Bergischer Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Solingen
• 2009 Retromorphosis , Galleries at University of HertfordshireSt Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
• 2009 Cabinet II - from the collection , gfzk | Gallery for Contemporary Art , Leipzig
• 2008 Congress of Futurologists , Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros , Hungary
• 2008 Video_ Düsseldorf / Riga , Latvian Center for Contemporary Art - LCCA, Riga, Latvia
• 2007 After Sputnik , Kunst im Tunnel (KIT), Düsseldorf
• 2007 Appearance / Disappearance , Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki , Krakow, Poland
• 2007 Absence Notes , Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
• 2006 Changing Faces - WORK , Museum Folkwang , Essen
• 2006 13th Month of Photography , Benaki Museum , Athens, Greece
• 2005 good prospects - young german photography , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
• 2005 Les Rencontres d'Arles , Arles, France
• 2004 Re-enactments , Hall 6 - Galerie Christine Hölz, Düsseldorf
• 2004 realismus update , Jacobi Haus, artist association Malkasten , Düsseldorf

Scholarships and Awards (selection)

• 2015 Art Foundation NRW
• 2013 Artist in Residence, Artspace Estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
• 2011 Artist in Residence, S-AIR, Sapporo, Japan
• 2010 Bergischer Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Solingen
• 2008 Artist in Residence, Goethe-Institut Kraków
• 2007 Art Fund Foundation
• 2006 foreign scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2004 award winner, good prospects - young german photography
• 2002 travel grant from the Düsseldorf Art Academy

literature

• Exact confidence limits. Photography since 1994 Hatje Cantz Verlag , Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-7757-4759-2 .
• The Japanese Series. Distance Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95476-124-1 .
• Star flight and apple blossom. Extra Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-938370-50-6 .
• Flaw. Modo Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86833-102-8 .
• March days. Revolver Publishing , 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-164-6 .
• Soramame. Revolver Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86895-172-1 .
• Helga Meister (Ed.): After the Sputnik. 701 eV, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-9807575-5-3 .
• Congress of Futurologists. Extra Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-938370-21-6 .
• Pictures from Utopia. Extra Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938370-08-4 .
• Images in public space. Flaw. Defect (artists' association), 2004, DNB 971306621 .
• Thomas Neumann (Ed.): 1984 News from Utopia. 2003.

Web links

• Homepage of Thomas Neumann
• Literature by and about Thomas Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Neumann on kunstaspekte.de
• Thomas Neumann on artfacts
• Bergischer Kunstpreis 2010
• Mindscape Japan exhibition
• Exhibition Exact Confidence Limits

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Photographische Sammlung Retrieved November 3, 2019.
2. ↑ Undeveloped and exhibited. Accessed November 3, 2019.
3. ↑ homo sovieticus.Retrieved November 3, 2019.
4. ↑ Pictures from Utopia. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
5. ↑ Unbuilt City.Retrieved November 3, 2019.
6. ↑ 1984 News from Utopia. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
7. ↑ Star flight and apple blossom. Accessed November 3, 2019.
8. ↑ Congress of Futurologists.Retrieved November 3, 2019.
9. ↑ Monument for a City.Retrieved November 3, 2019.
10. ↑ Bergischer Kunstpreis Retrieved November 3, 2019.
11. ↑ Exact confidence limits. Accessed March 6, 2020.
12. ↑ Rheinische Post Retrieved March 15, 2020.
13. ↑ Gallery Nomart Accessed on November 3 of 2019.
14. ↑ The Japanese Series. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
15. ↑ March days. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
16. ↑ Kunststiftung NRW scholarship holders Retrieved on November 26, 2019.
17. ↑ S-AIR grant recipients. Accessed November 27, 2019.
18. ↑ Exact confidence limits. Photography since 1994.Retrieved March 6, 2020.
19. ^ The Japanese Series. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
20. ↑ Star flight and apple blossom. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
21. ↑ Defect. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
22. ↑ March days. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
23. ↑ Soramame. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
24. ^ Congress of Futurologists. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
25. ^ Pictures from Utopia. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
26. ↑ 1984 News from Utopia. Retrieved November 3, 2019.