Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand (b. 1964, Munich, Germany) attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1987–1990), the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1990–1993), Goldsmiths College in London (1993–1994), and since 2011 has held a Professorship of Sculpture at HFBK in Hamburg. His work has been shown extensively across the world and is included in most of the significant private and institutional collections. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sprüth Magers in Berlin, Galleria Gentili in Florence, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Demand was a recipient of the Rencontres d’Arles Award 2003 and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011. Recent books include The Stutter of History (2022), Mundo De Papel (2022), House of Card (2020), The Complete Papers (2019), Blossom with Ben Lerner (2015), The Dailies with Hal Foster (2012), and Model Studies (2011.