Thomas Florschuetz

Thomas Florschuetz was born in 1957 in Zwickau, East Germany. He lived in East Berlin from 1981 until 1988, when he moved to West Berlin. He became Artist in Residence at Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, California in 2000. In 2007, Thomas Florschuetz was elected to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. He now lives and works in West Berlin.

Iris Prints

Prizes

Florschuetz has been awarded numerous prizes, including:

    • First prize for new European photography

    • Dorothea von Stetten Prize, Bonn

    • German Criticsí Award for Fine Arts.

    • Deutscher Kritikerpreis für bildende Kunst, Berlin

Exhibitions

His work was first exhibited in the US in 1989 as a part of the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography V series. In 1993 his works were included in Multiple Images and in 1998, Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photographs at MOMA. His work was also shown in the following exhibitions:

    • Elective Affinities at Tate Gallery, Liverpool

    • The Twentieth Century, National Gallery, Berlin

    • Tomorrow Forever, Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg, Germany

    • Der Anagrammatische Korper, Museum Fur Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, Germany

Collections

Thomas Florschuetz’ works can be found in many collections in the United States and Europe including:

    • Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA

    • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

    • Museum of Fine Art in Houston, USA

    • Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany

    • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, Germany

    • ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany

    • National Gallery in Berlin, Germany

    • Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, Germany

    • Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway

    • Hamburger Bahnhof (National Gallery), Berlin, Germany

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