Una de las obras que PEDRO PEÑA ART GALLERY presento en la Feria Internacional de Arte Múltiple de Madrid, Estampa 2011, fue la magnífica fotografía de Frank Thiel. “SK 76-2-MP”, Edición ¼, 230 x 176 cm, 2001.
“A Berlin Decade” 1995 – 2005
Frank Thiel produce a mediados de los años noventa, una serie de fotografías centradas en la ciudad Berlín y su arquitectura. Frank Thiel plasma simultáneamente procesos de construcción y de destrucción, con repercusiones políticas del Berlín del Siglo XX y la reunificación de Alemania.
FRANK THIEL, “SK 76-2-MP”, FOTOGRAFÍA, Edición ¼, 230 x 176 cm, 2001
“A Berlin Decade” 1995 – 2005
Frank Thiel produce a mediados de los años noventa, una serie de fotografías centradas exclusivamente en la ciudad Berlín y su arquitectura. Thiel plasma simultáneamente procesos de construcción y de destrucción, con repercusiones políticas del Berlín del Siglo XX y la reunificación de Alemania.
Para más información recomendamos el libro de Hatje Cantz, Frank Thiel A Berlin Decade 1995 – 2005.
Biography
1966 Born in Kleinmachnow near Berlin, Germany.
1985 Moved to West-Berlin, Germany.
1986 Training college for photography, Berlin, Germany.
Lives in Berlin, Germany.
AWARDS and GRANTS
1999 Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
1996 Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany.
1995 Kulturfonds Foundation Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Award of the Helmut Kraft Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany.
Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany.
1994 Award of the Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany.
1990 German Kodak Award.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Frank Thiel: New Work, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY. Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain.
2006 Frank Thiel: Void Territory, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY. Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
The Search for Distance, Goethe Institute, Tessaloniki, Greece.
2005 National Art Museum, Kiev. Traveled to the Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa.
2004 Frank Thiel, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY.
2003 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain. Galerie Krizinger, Vienna, Austria.
2002 Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany. Frank Thiel, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY. Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
2001 Begijnhof II; Under Construction, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona. Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain. Goethe Institute, Oslo, Norway (touring exhibition).
2000 City TV (Berlin), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece. Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Goethe Institutes Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain, and Dublin, Ireland (touring exhibition)
1999 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain. Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland IMAGO’99, Universidad de Salamanca, Centro de Fotografia, Patio de Escuelas, Salamanca, Spain. City TV (Berlin), Galerie Haas und Fuchs, Berlin, Germany. Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany. Goethe Institutes Singapore; National Art Gallery, KualaLumpur, Malaysia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bandung, Indonesia; Bratislava, Slovakia, and Museum of Imaging Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (touring exhibition).
1998 Frank Thiel, Berlín, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Academy of Fine Arts, Izmir, Turkey. Traveled to Goethe Institutes Ankara, Turkey and Seoul, South Korea, (touring exhibition).
1997 Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland. Statements, Art28 Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Goethe Institute Minsk, Minsk, Russia. Traveled to Rosizo Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1996 Heidelberger Kunstverein, Studio Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany. Hotel Berolina, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany. Frank Thiel, Centre Culturel le Parvis, Tarbes, France. Traveled to Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
1995 Prison Gates, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany. Goethe Institute, Paris, France and Galerie Condé, Paris, France (traveling exhibition).
1993 Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal.
1992 Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany.
1991 Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Intersecciones: Memoria, Realidad y Nuevos Tiempos, the X.Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador. Berlin 89/09-Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinishe Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany. Kunst und Öffentlichkeit. 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany. Artists Of The Gallery, A Special Selection, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria. As Time Goes By, Kunstwerke über Zeit, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany.
2008 The Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Artists Respond to the Exercise of Power in Contemporary Life, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. Constructio, Galeria Antonio de Barnola, Barcelona, Spain. Artist-Citizen, Contextual Art Practices, 49th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia. Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. Summer Exhibition, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY. En Face / surface, Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Generational Issue, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2007 Poul Kjærholm: Structures and Surfaces, Sean Kelly Gallery and R Gallery, New York. A Generational Question, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. La vida Privada. Colección Josep Ma Civit, CDAN Centro de Arte Naturaleza – Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain. Janus – The Double Face of Photography. Holdings from the Permanent Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.Relíquias & Ruínas, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil traveled to: SESC Paulista, Saõ Paulo, Brazil. Global Anxieties: Perspectives on a Changing Planet, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio. Spectacular Space, Galerie Bob van Orsow, Zürich, Switzerland. Façade, Architecture, Space, Cook Fine Art, New York, New York. Guests, Galería Juan Silió, Santander, Spain. PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York.
2006 Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. A Tale of Two Cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Germany. Flic Flac, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany. Constructing New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Travels to Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. Helga de Alvear – Concepts for A Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil. Hundred Kisses are Better than One, Krinzinger Projects, Vienna, Austria. Glasskultur: What Became of Transparence?, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain. Travels to Centre d’Art La Panera, Lérida, Spain. Landscape in Contemporary Photography, Briggs Robinson Gallery, Southampton, NY. Metropolitanscape, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy. Post-Doc, Museum for Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece. Photo-Septiembre, Jacob Karpio Galería, San José, Costa Rica. Photosynkria 2006: Contemporary Trends in Documentary Photography, Museum for Photography, Tessaloniki, Greece. Suspension, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
2005 Architektur Mobil, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Beyond Delirious, Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida. Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Oulun City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland, and Museo Extremeño e iberoamericano (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain. Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. Traveled to Landesmuseum Joannuem, Graz, Germany. Gegenwelten. Das 20 Jahrhundert in den Neuen Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Private View 1980/2000: Collection Pierre Huber, Musee Cantonal des Beaux Art de Lausanne, Lausanne, France. Architektur mobil, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Nykyhetken visiot – Contemporary Visions – Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Oulun City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland. Passion Beyond Reason, Wallstreet One, Berlin, Germany. Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
2004 Return to Realism: Contemporary Art from the UBS Art Collection, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida. Faces, Places, Traces: New Acquisitions to the Photographs Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada. On Reason and Emotion, 14th Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia. The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm and Selected Art Work, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY.Building the Collection, New and Future Acquisitions Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto A arañeira. A Collection (The Cobweb. The Collection) Centro Galego de Arte Contempranea, Santiago de Compostela durchBlicke durchBruche, Die Sammlung der, Berlinische Galerie, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin. COLD PLAY Set 1 from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Reed Exhibitions – Paris Photo, Paris, France. Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Wäinö Aaltonens Museum, Turki Finland. La Collecíon Ordóñez Falcón – Une passion partagée, Le Botanique, Centre culturel de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles Nykyhethen visiot – Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos rom the Helga de Alvear Collection, Waino Aaltonens Museum, Turku Castastrofi minima, Museo de Arte de Nuoro, Cerdena Querrschnitt_Selezione Trasversale, Gas Artgallery, Turin.
2003 Cold Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Raum, Zeit – Architektur in er Fotografie. Weke aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Oldenburger Kunstveriein und Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg. Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection Austin Museum of Art; traveled to: Pheonix art museum Realidad y Representación. Coleccionar Paisaje Hoy, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona. La photographie allemande, Galerie Art+Public, Geneva Tra Est e Ovest, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy. Complicadades II: Aspectos retóricos de la fotografía actual Centro Nacional De Fotografía de Torrelavega. Catastrofi Minime, Museo d’ Arte di Nuoro. Arquivo e Simulação, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. O delírio de Chimborazo, 4th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. La ciudad radiante, 2nd Bienal de Valencia, Fundacaio Bancaixa, Valencia, Spain. La Photographie Allemande, Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland.
2002 Frank Thiel/Bernard Voïta, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland. Iconografias Metropolitanas, Cidades, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Pavilhao Ciccillo matarazzo, Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Human Park…an exhibition of global creatures, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain. Traveled to Fundacion “Sa Nosra” de Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain and Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland. Divine the Grid, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Agua-Wasser, Antigua Facultad de Medicina/Tribunal del Santo Oficio, Mexico City, Mexico. Sans Consentement, Centre d’Art de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Brasília – Ruina e Utopia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília,Brazil. In szene gesetzt. Architektur in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Museum Fur Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Traveled to Stadtische Galerie Erlangen und Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany. Grace & Gravity, Galerie Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain. Paisajes Contemporáneos. Coleccion Helga de Alvear, Fundacio Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain. Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection, Portland Museum of ArtFoundacion Sa Nostra de Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Galerie Bob van Orsouw Zurich, Germany.
2001 CTRL [Space] Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Remake Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and DAAD Galerie, Berlin. Traveled to Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France. SK 76 / 2-Mp (XIII), Art Unlimited, Art32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Brave New World, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. Begijnhof II; Under Construction, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain. Casas y ciudades, Salas de Armas Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain. Crisis, reflexiones conceptuales en la Arte Contemporaneo International, Fundacion Picasso, Museo Casa Natal, Malaga, Spain. Taking Care, SMART Projekt Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Casas y ciudades, Salas de Armas Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain. Fotografía Internacional en las colecciones privades de Cantabria Sala Robayera, Cantabria Imágen es de un tiempo, Sala La Granja, Casa de Cultura, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
2000 90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela. After The Wall, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest. Traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany and Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany. Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. Arquitectura de Colección, Sala de Exposiciones del Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain. Hans Hemmert, Tracey Moffat, Andrés Pinal, Frank Thiel. Fotógrafos de Los años noventa en la colección CGAC, Sala Alameda de la Diputación de Málaga, Málaga Spain. Urban Landscapes, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain. Berlin – Binnendifferenz, Benger-Areal Bregenz. Traveled to 7-Kapellen, Innsbruck, Austria and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria.
1999 dAPPERTutto, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Le corps évanoui, les images subites, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. 999, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bâtiment Ex Troesch, Bellinzone, Switzerland. After The Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. New Works, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany. Nuevas Visiones / Nuevas Pasiones. Artistas de la Colección Helga de Alvear en Villa Iris, Fundación Marcelino Botin, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit – Wege der Deutschen 1949-1999, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. The Edge of Awareness, WHO Regional Office and The Rabindra Bahvan Lalitkala Academy, New Delhi, India.
1998 Blickwechsel, Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medien-technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Arrêt sur image, Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland. 100 Jahre Kunst im Aufbruch, Die Sammlung der Berlinischen Galerie, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany. Luz y Fotografia la Coleccion de Helga de Alvear, Fundacion Caja Vita Kutxa, Victoria, Spain.Die Unruhe und die Zufriedenheit oder Die Tragödie des Scheiterns, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany. Gesichter und Dinge – Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany. The Edge of Awareness, WHO Headquarters, Geneva. Traveled to P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY and SESC, Pompéia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1997 Sous le signe de Renger-Patzsch, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. In Medias Res, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey. Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. 1996 Never shown before, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. Junge Kunst, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
1995 Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Cologne, Germany.
1994 diario, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Traveled to Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, Germany. The Day After Tomorrow, Centro Culturalde Belém, Lisbon, Portugal. IN-TRANSIT, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Deutschland, Charlemagne, Germany. Traveled to Conseil des Communautés Européennes, Brussels, Belgium and Kunstsammlung Gera, Gera, Germany and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany. Zeitgenössische Fotografie’94, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany.
1993 Emigration – Bilder von Abschied, Reise und Tod, Galerie Mosel und Tschechow, Munich, Germany. Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany.
1992 Humpty Dumpty’s Kaleidoscope-A New Generation of German Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Einsamkeit – A German Sensation, Monasterio de Veruela, Spain. Traveled to Fundación «la Caixa», Madrid, Spain; Sala Catalunya de la Fundació «la Caixa», Barcelona, Spain and Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Jahreslabor. Ein Bericht, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
1991 Panorama des Panoramas, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Papier – Von der Linie zum Objekt, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany. Interferenzen – Kunst aus Westberlin 1960-1990, National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia. Neue Aspekte in der Sammlung, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
1990 European Kodak Award, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
Marx Collection, Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof), Germany
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Collection Federal Republic of Germany
Collection University of Salamanca, Spain
Collection of the City of Geneva, Switzerland
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
Collection DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin, Germany
Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Collection Hypo Vereinsbank, New York, USA
Collection Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich, Germany
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