Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand was born in 1964 in Munich, Germany. He studied at the art academies in Munich and Düsseldorf. He received an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2011, he has been working as a professor at HFBK, the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. The artist lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. Thomas […]

Thomas Demand was born in 1964 in Munich, Germany. He studied at the art academies in Munich and Düsseldorf. He received an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2011, he has been working as a professor at HFBK, the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. The artist lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.

Thomas Demand trained as sculptor. His photographs are generally based on found press photographs. He builds elaborate models using colored paper and cardboard which he then photographs. Often the depicted images include oblique references to historically important sites or events. No writing appears in the recreated images. The life-sized mock-ups are then destroyed.