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Thomas Wrede

*1963, Letmathe, Germany

Thomas Wrede’s internationally exhibited serial works often challenge our concept and relationship with nature, landscape and imagery. His series simultaneously trigger a sense of familiarity and unfamiliarity. Wrede’s choices of familiar scenes often induce a sense of nostalgia. However with the manipulation of the compositions and lighting effects of his photos, a feeling of uneasiness is inevitably evoked.
The idea behind Wrede’s work is aptly summarized by the artist regarding one of his series, Real Landscapes : “The starting point of my photographic work is the human longing for nature and the mediation thereof. I question the relationships between constructed model and reality, between picture and copy.”

www.thomas-wrede.de


 

EDUCATION


 

1985 - 1991

Concentrated study: Fine Arts, Kunstakademie Münster, Germany.


 

1991

Studied with Professor Dieter Appelt, Salzburg/Berlin, Germany.


 

1992

Meisterschüler of Professor G. Keusen, Kunstakademie, Münster, Germany.


 

1998 - 2005

Teaching position of Photography at Kunstakademie Münster.


 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


 

2011

Anywhere, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany


 

2010

Anywhere, Museum Kunst der Westküste auf Föhr und Kunstraum Sylt Quelle, Germany
Panorama, Galleria Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Italy
Thomas Wrede, Studioausstellung in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany


 

2009

Real Landscapes, Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Real Landscapes, Galerie f 5,6, München, Germany
Picture Worlds, Beck & Eggeling, new quarters, Düsseldorf, Germany
Real Landscapes, Galerie Remont & Goethe Institut Belgrad, Serbia
Real Landscapes, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Landscapes, Goethe Institut Bukarest, Romania


 

2008

Real Landscapes, Galerie Espacio Marte, Mexiko City, Mexico.
Real Landscapes, Galerie Mike Karstens, Münster, Germany.


 

2007

Real Landscapes, Galerie Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Hotel California – Dolron & Wrede im Dialog, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum,
Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany


 

2006

Seascapes. Am Meer, Goethe Institut London, UK
Strange Paradise, Galerie Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf, Germany
Seascapes. Am Meer, Goethe Institut Helsinki, Finland
Strange Paradise, Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, Germany
New Shores, James Nicholson Gallery, New York, USA
Strange Paradise, Kunsthalle Münsterland, Emsdetten, Germany


 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


 

2011

MärklinWorld, Kunsthal KadE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (24 September 2011 – 8 January 2012)
Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz, ART FOYER DZ BANK, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
(22 June – 24 September)
25 Jahre! Sammlung Henri Nannen und Überraschungs-Gäste, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
(8 October 2011 – 29 January 2012)


 

2010

Out of the Office, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Elders / Elsewhere, Idylle en frictie in het landschap, Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands
Open Landscape, with Peter Dreher, Friederike Jokisch, Josef Schulz, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Landschaft ohne Horizont, Museum Schloß Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany


 

2009

One Step beyond Reality, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin
Deutschland und China - gemeinsam in Bewegung, Wuhan Museum of Art, China
3rd Moscow Biennale: WONDER WORLD. EXPECTING A RESTLESS FUTURE, Moscow, Russia
Landscape, contemporary - Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie -Haus der Fotografie - Dr. Robert-Gerlich-Museum, Burghausen, Germany


 

2008

Global Suburbia - Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA, USA
StillStand - Stillleben in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie I, Fotoforum Braunau, Austria
2 Jahre New Quarters, Beck + Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gescheiterte Hoffnung. Romantik heute?, Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
Model und Wirklichkeit, Städtische Galerie im Rathaus, Lippstadt, Germany


 

2007

DREIZUEINS, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Cologne, Germany
Krieg der Knöpfe, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria
Showroom 4.7, Münster, Germany
4 Jahre f 5,6, Galerie f 5,6 Munich, Germany
water - a journey to quiet contemplation, SHAG, sahlman helwaser art gallery, New York, USA
Failed Hope, New Romanticism in contemporary photography in Germany,
Monat der Fotografie, Krakau, Poland
Von Oben und von Unten, Akademie Franz Hitze Haus, Münster, Germany


 

GRANTS AND AWARDS


 

2002

Fotografiepreis Wiesbaden, Kunstadapter Frankfurt/Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany.
Foto und Medienpreis Wiesbaden, „Geschwindigkeit – Terrain der Zeit“, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany.


 

1999 - 2000

DG-Bank Fotopreis (2.) Kunstpreis der deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, Germany.


 

1998 - 1999

Kunstpreis Münsterland der Sparkasse Coesfeld, Germany.


 

1998

Förderpreis der Großen Ausstellung Düsseldorf, Germany.


 

1997

Karl-Hofer Preis, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany.


 

1996

Atelierstipendium, Münster, Germany.


 

1993

Barkenhoff-Stipendium, Worpswede, Germany.


 

1992

Preisträger beim Deutschen Kunstpreis der Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, Germany.


 

1991

Förderpreis des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe, Sweden.


 

1989

Gotland-Stipendium (Sweden) des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe, Germany.


 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS


 

Fotografiesammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Sammlung des Landes NRW
DZ Bank Frankfurt
Landesmuseum Münster
Helmond Museum, Netherlands
Museum Kunst der Westküste
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Grafiksammlung der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Gandhara Advisors Asia Limited, Hong Kong
ADAC Kunstsammlung
UBS Zurich & Luzern
The West Collection, Philadelphia, USA
WGZ Bank Münster
Stadt Münster
Private collections in US and Europe

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Catalogues

Panorama
OUT OF PRINT

Texts: Giovanna Nicoletti,
Paola Giacomoni
Year published: 2010
Languages: English, Italian
Softcover, 90 pages, 36 images

Thomas Wrede. Anywhere

Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Museum Kunst der Westküste / Stiftung kunst:raum sylt quelle
Texts: Thorsten Sadowsky, Nicola Carola Heuwinkel, Walter Grond
Publisher: Kehrer
Year published: 2010
Languages: English, German
Hardcover, 132 pages, 57 images
ISBN 978-3-86828-152-1


Manhattan Picture Worlds

Texts: Marshall Berman, Christoph Schaden
Publisher: Kerber
Year published: 2009
Languages: English, German
Hardcover, 120 pages, 52 Images
ISBN 978-3-86678-244-0

Strange Paradise
OUT OF PRINT

Texts: Rainer Danne, Dr. Christoph Schaden
Publisher: Kerber
Year published: 2006
Languages: English, German
Hardcover, 119 pages, 59 Images
ISBN 3-938025-56-5



 
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