Thomas Wrede

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Thomas Wrede (* 1963 in Iserlohn ) is a German, internationally active photographer and artist .

Life

He completed his studies in fine arts at the Art Academy in Münster (1985 to 1991) with a master's degree . This was followed by studies with Dieter Appelt at the Udk Berlin .

1998–2005 Wrede received a teaching position for photography at the Art Academy in Münster . Since 2015 he has been teaching as a professor for photography / media at the University of Fine Arts (HBK) Essen.

Thomas Wrede's work comprises series and work groups that have developed from classic black and white photography to analog color photography to digital photography.

In 1991 Thomas Wrede began the process of wrapping tree stumps in plastic film, photographing them hundreds of times and using the analogue route to assemble them into ever new figures, the Cadavre Exquis . On the Danish island of Samsö in the early 1990s, photographs of a dark, glittering and at the same time dying landscape were taken on a landfill for agricultural films.

In 1994 he held large-format black-and-white works entitled The birds are in the air, screaming the imprints of the impact of birds on window panes, which seem to float like ghosts between the here and the hereafter, between the moment and infinity . In the Magic Feelings series , Wrede captured the moment of lust and panic on the faces of roller coaster riders.

Eventually Wrede began to look for the line between image and reality. In his Real Landscapes , for example, toy cars and small model houses are placed on the beaches of the North Sea islands and sand pits in such a way that a puddle becomes a lake and a mound of earth becomes a mountain. The photographic illusion of his illusory worlds is not caused by digital processing, but by the lack of proportions in the real landscape. In further photographic series, Thomas Wrede shows the attempt to build “realistic” landscapes in amusement parks and to give space to bourgeois spaces with natural landscape wallpapers.

Wrede's photographs found their way into art collections such as Hudson's Bay Company Global Art Collection New York, The West Collection Philadelphia, Hall Art Collection New York, ING-Collection Amsterdam, art-on-building projects in Berlin for the Federal Republic of Germany, UBS Zurich & Lucerne , DZ-Bank Frankfurt, National Museum of History and Art Luxembourg (MNHA), State Gallery Stuttgart , Museum of Photography ( Berlin State Museums ), State Museum Münster . His works have been presented at the Akademie der Künste Berlin (2015), the National Museum of History and Art Luxembourg (2013), the European Month of Photography Luxembourg (2013), the Museum Art of the West Coast , Alkersum (2010), in Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (2011), in the Art Museum Wuhan, China (2009), at the Moscow Biennale (2009), in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne (2007).

Thomas Wrede is a member of the German Association of Artists and the German Society for Photography, DGPh. He lives in Münster .

honors and awards

In 1997 he received the Karl Hofer Prize of the HdK Berlin , in 1999 the photography prize of the DG Bank and in 2002 the photography prize of the city of Wiesbaden .

Individual catalogs and monographs (selection)

  • The birds stand in the air and scream , Münster, 1994
  • Samsö , Bonn, 1996
  • Magic Worlds , Salon Verlag, Cologne, 2000
  • Strange Paradise , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005
  • Manhattan, Picture Worlds , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2009
  • Anywhere , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2010
  • Staging and Reality , Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg, 2013
  • Model landscape , exhibition catalog, Sinclair House Museum, 2017
  • Sceneries , exhibition catalog, Kehrer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2018

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 model landscape , Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
  • 2016 The Luminous Screen , Galerie Mike Karstens, Münster
  • 2015/16 Photography , Neue Galerie Gladbeck (with Anja Jensen )
  • 2013 European Month of Photography Luxembourg: open-air installation in Clervaux and disURBANces , Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg MNHA
  • 2012 Real Landscapes , Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2011 Anywhere , Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin
  • 2010 Manhattan Picture Worlds & Domestic Landscapes , Kunsthalle Bielefeld
  • 2009 Real Landscapes , Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin ; Real Landscapes , Beorgrad / Podgorica, Goethe-Institut Belgrade
  • 2008 Real Landscapes , espacio marte, Mexico City
  • 2007 Month of Photography , Krakow , Poland
  • 2005/06 Seascapes. By the sea , Goethe Institute, London / Helsinki
  • 2003 Landscapes , James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2002 Mondes mystiques - paysages domestiques , Goethe-Institut Paris ; Landscapes positions of contemporary photography , Kunstverein Bochum
  • 2001 Domestic Landscapes , Cristinerose Gallery, New York
  • 2000 Sublime , Künstlerhaus Duende, Rotterdam
  • 1999 Art Prize of the Deutsche Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken , Sprengel-Museum , Hanover; Magic Worlds - Magic Feelings , Cristinerose Gallery, New York
  • 1998 In the rush of the moment , Karl Hofer Prize 1997, University of Fine Arts Berlin (now UdK Berlin)
  • 1997 The Dead , Mois de la photo, Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal
  • 1995 Interfaces , Heidelberger Kunstverein
  • 1994 The birds stand in the air and scream , photo installation, Werwerka pavilion, Münster
  • 1992 Cadavre exquis , Image gallery, Aarhus

literature

  • Dirk Liesemer : After the disaster , in: Mare, No 96, March 2013
  • Thomas Wrede: Real Landscapes / Staging and Reality , in: Mois de la photographie * Luxembourg 2013, Ed. Paul de Felice / Café Creme, Luxembourg 2013
  • Thomas Wrede: After the Flood , in: Lapham's Quarterly, The Sea , Vol. VI, No. 3, p. 107
  • Thomas Wrede: Real Landscapes , in: Art in Architecture, Federal Projects 2006 - 13 , Berlin 2014
  • Ruby Beesley: Aesthetics and Reality, Vertigo of Reality , in: Aestetica, issue 60, September 2014
  • Thomas Wrede, the photo I want. Interview , in: Musée, No. 8, New York, April 2014
  • Thomas Wrede: Real & Unreal. Interview , in: Monthly Photography, Seoul, May 2014
  • Thomas Wrede: Real Landscapes , in: The Fields of Landscapes Photography, Ed. William A. Ewing. London 2014

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "W" / Thomas Wrede (accessed on June 23, 2016)
  2. ↑ kopeikingallery.com: Thomas Wrede: Real Landscapes (April 21 - May 26) (accessed on June 23, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Wrede, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn , Westphalia