Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German

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and

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. He currently lives and works in

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and

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, and teaches at the

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. Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich in 1992. In 2004 the Kunsthaus Bregenz mounted the first comprehensive presentation of Demand's major works from 1994 until 2004. Demand's work later was the subject of mid-career retrospectives at the

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, New York in 2005 and at the Neue Nationalgalerie in 2009. Other solo exhibitions include

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(2006), London, the

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, Dublin, the Fondazione Prada, Venice (both 2007), and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris (2001).

Education

*1987–1989 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich *1989–1992 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf *1992 Cité des Arts, Paris *1993–1994 Goldsmiths College, London, M.A.

Work

Demand is known for making photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces, often sites loaded with social and political meanings. He thus describes himself not as a photographer, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process. Having studied sculpture under Fritz Schwegler at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alongside Katharina Fritsch and

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, Demand began his career as a sculptor. In 1993, he began to use photography to record his elaborate, life-sized paper-and-cardboard constructions of actually or formerly existing environments and interior spaces, and soon started to create constructions for the sole purpose of photographing them. The photograph he takes of this model with a large-format-camera is the final stage of his work, and it is only this image, most often executed in an edition of six, that is exhibited unframed behind Plexiglas, not the models. On the contrary, Demand destroys his “life-size environments” after he has photographed them. One notable exception is his large scale model for ''Grotto'' (2006), inspired by a postcard of a

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n grotto Demand has never visited, which was later exhibited. The life sized models are highly detailed, yet they retain subtle but deliberate flaws and anachronisms, such as an unnaturally uniform texture; according to art critic Michael Kimmelman, "the reconstructions were meant to be close to, but never perfectly, realistic so that the gap between truth and fiction would always subtly show". In ''The Dailies'' (2012), Demand for the first time experimented with the long-outmoded process of

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, which involves fixing dyes with gelatine to ordinary paper. The practice was chosen by the artist for the saturated, but not garish colours, the spatial depth, the intense darkness, the durability and the extent to which the three primary colours can be modified, unlike ordinary prints. While the works' titles – ''Studio'' (1997), ''Zimmer (Room)'' (1996), ''Treppenhaus (Staircase)'' (1995) – are studiously devoid of superfluous information, the subjects represented in Demand's photographs often relate to pre-existing press images showing scenes of cultural or political relevance. The New York hotel room in which L. Ron Hubbard worked on Dianetics, for example, was the starting point for ''Zimmer (Room)'' (1996). ''Zeichensaal (Drafting Room)'' (1996) is inspired by a photograph of the studio of Richard Vorhölzer, the architect who was in charge of much urban planning for postwar Germany; ''Scheune (Barn)'' (1997) is based on a Hans Namuth photograph of

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and Lee Krasner in Pollock's East Hampton studio.; ''Studio'' (1997) derives from a photograph of the 1970s television set for the German "What's My Line?". Later in his career Demand turned his interest towards the political world: ''Podium'' (2000) represents the location where Serbian dictator

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gave his Gazimestan speech on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Serbian defeat by the Turks; in ''Attempt'' (2005), Demand has reconstructed the studio of an artist whom Baader-Meinhof terrorists targeted in the 1970s in order to blow up the

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house of the state's prosecutor next door;Thomas Demand, 7 June - 2 July 2005
Victoria Miro Gallery, London. ''Kitchen'' (2004) is based on soldiers' snapshots of the compound near

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where

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was captured. Demand's series ''Yellowcake'' (2007) portrays the Nigerian Embassy in Rome, the site of a

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in January 2001 that was used to prove Hussein's attempt to purchase uranium. More recently, the photograph ''Kontrollraum (Control Room)'' (2011), for instance, purports to show the interior of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant during its tsunami-induced meltdown.Karen Rosenberg (June 14, 2012)
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''. Commissioned by ''

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,'' Demand's “Presidency” series depicting the

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appeared on the cover and inside ''

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,'' November 9, 2008 issue following the election of President

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. The five large prints, simply titled ''Presidency I-V,'' were created in the last weeks of the Bush presidency and later, with the support of

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and other donors, given to the

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, Washington, in 2009. In 2011, Demand created ''Metzler-Saal'' (2011), his largest site-specific work to date. Commissioned by the Städel Museum, the photographic work appears as if the museum's main hall is lined floor to ceiling with deep purple curtains. Demand was inspired by the drapery depicted in many of the Städel's Old Master paintings. A result of a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles where he discovered the archive of architect John Lautner, ''Model Studies'' (2011) is the first time that Demand photographed architectural models that were not his own. The series comprises a total of 32 close-ups of cardboard, tar paper, and foam core panels, depicting the study models from many angles. Because Demand is working from models, the absence of people in his photographs is "conspicuous and thematic". The closest Demand has ever come to depicting people are the cut-out silhouettes of politicians and heads of state depicted in the picture frames arranged on Sir Edward Heath’s grand piano (''Flügel/Grand Piano'', 1993).Jörg Heiser
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''Frieze Magazine'', Issue 73, March 2003. Furthermore, every trace of language has completely vanished: the papers strewn across the work table and floor in ''Büro (Office)'' (1995) have no text on them; the labels next to the doorbells that are the subject of ''Hinterhaus'' (2005) are variously colored but bear no names. Demand cites Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha as sources of inspiration.

Films

Demand has also experimented with film in works such as ''Tunnel'' (1999), a tracking shot from a driver’s perspective through an empty tunnel lined by concrete pillars; the tunnel is modelled on the Paris underpass where Princess Diana died. ''Recorder'' (2002) is a 35 mm-film loop in which a paper model of an eight-track reel-to-reel recording device appears to play the

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album Smile (1966), a recording that was until recently lost; the sound of a piano playing a variation on ‘Bicycle Rider’, an instrumental from the Smile sessions, can be heard on the soundtrack. ''Rolltreppe (Escalator)'' (2000) is an animation of 24 still images shown in a continual loop. Showing an escalator without people, taken from surveillance footage, Demand here is referencing an escalator near Charing Cross Bridge in London where a gang was caught on surveillance camera shortly after they had robbed two men and thrown them into the Thames, killing one of them. ''Trick'' (2004) refers back to the beginnings of cinema and is based on one of the first films of the Lumière brothers, ''Assiettes tournantes (Turning Plates)'' of 1896. The one-minute film re-creates a sequence in which a performer executes a stunt by spinning a set of bowls and plates on a tabletop. ''Camera'' (2007) presents a surveillance camera as it pans a public space, complete with ambient sound. In ''Rain'' (2008), Demand painstakingly re-created the effect of raindrops falling onto a hard surface, using cellophane candy wrappers and a sound track of eggs frying. Filmed over fifteen months with the help of a 12-person team of animators, the 100-second animated film ''Pacific Sun'' (2012) is based on a video of cruise ship Pacific Sun caught in a storm between the Republic of Vanuatu and Auckland, New Zealand which the artist found on

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, and follows the full narrative arc of the ship's violent encounter in the Tasman Sea. The film was made on a full scale set and, like Demand's models for his photographs, was completely constructed of paper and then destroyed. It comprises a total of 2,400 frames, filmed one at a time, as animators meticulously retraced the movements of each item in the ship's dining room, shifting the paper models of plates, lemons, pendant lamps, chairs, an upright piano, and a refrigerator by several millimeters at a time. The question of why this particular event (which resulted in injuries but no deaths) merits such meticulous attention is left unanswered.

Curator

In 2010, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco entrusted Demand with a role of guest curator for “La Carte d’Après Nature”, the opening exhibition of Villa Paloma, Monte Carlo. A modified version of this exhibition, which used Surrealist painter

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as its theme and included films, photography, soundworks and architectural models from the 19th century to the present, later travelled to

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in New York. From October 2010 to June 2011, he was a Getty Scholar. In 2011, Demand curated a selection of postcards of grottoes from the collection of Gerhard Stein—a computer engineer from south Germany who has amassed over 50,000 postcards of grottoes over his 30 years of collecting—for the Nottingham Contemporary, filling each cabinet with multiple images of subterranean spaces. On the occasion of the 2015 opening of the Fondazione Prada in

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, Demand set documentary materials including postcards, books, tour guides, catalogue illustrations, various advertisements and the grey cardboard reconstruction of a Spanish grotto alongside the photograph of ''Grotto'' (2006).

Collaborations

One of his long-term collaborators is British architectural firm Caruso St John, which most notably designed his 2004 exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, and has also contributed to the design of the Nationalgalerie show. Demand and Caruso St John won a competition in 2008, launched by the city of Zurich, to redesign the Escher Wyss Platz; however, the project was rejected in a public referendum in 2010. Caruso St. John also worked on Demand's 2009 exhibition at Berlin's

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designed Neue Nationalgalerie, where an installation has been purpose-built specifically for the show. The Berlin-based culture magazine 032c dedicated its 18th issue to Demand in honor of this mid-career exhibition. The publication featured both interviews by and with Demand, including a conversation between the artist and film director Todd Solondz. Demand has also been a frequent contributor and feature in the magazine, for instance in the form of a 2008 interview with fellow artist Collier Schorr. Demand's Berlin studio occupies part of a warehouse alongside the Hamburger Bahnhof. He used to share this workspace with Tacita Dean and Olafur Eliasson.

Awards

*2011: Nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize *2012: Honorary doctorate degree from the

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, London

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1992 *Tanit Galerie, Munich 1996 *Galerie de l'ancienne Poste,

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*Galerie Tanit,

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Max Protetch Gallery Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

, New York 1997 *Galerie Monika Spruth,

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* Victoria Miro Gallery,

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*Centre d'art contemporain, Vassiviere-en-Limousin 1998 *

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, Zurich * Kunsthalle, Bielefeld *Galleria Monica de Cardenas,

* 303 Gallery, New York *Galerie Schipper + Krome,

* Kunstverein,

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1999 *"Tunnel", Art Now 16,

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, London 2000–2001 * Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain,

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*Victoria Miro Gallery, London *Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich *Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne 2001 *"Thomas Demand con Caruso St. John architetti", Galleri d'art moderna di *Palazzo Pitti,

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*De Appel,

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*ArtPace,

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. Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, and SITE Santa Fe *''Report'', Sprengel Museum,

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*303 Gallery,

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2002 *Lenbachhaus,

*Castello de Rivoli,

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*SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe *"Hof", Schipper & Krome,

2003 *Taka Ishii Gallery,

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, Japan * Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark *Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland *Lenbachhaus, Munich 2004 *''Phototrophy'', Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria – the first comprehensive presentation of Demand's major works from 1994 to 2004. * São Paulo Biennale 2005 *

, New York 2006 *

, London 2007 *

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*Fondazione Prada, Venice 2009 *''Nationalgalerie'', Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Traveled to

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, Rotterdam *''Presidency Embassy'', Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna *''The Dailies'', Centro Cultural Usina deo Gasometro, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2010 * Des Moines Art Center 2012 *''Animations'', Des Moines Art Center. Traveled to DHC Art Center, Montreal * Sprüth Magers, Berlin *

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. Traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne *''Kunst Gespräch'', Schauwer, Sindelfingen, Germany 2013 *High Line Billboard, High Line Park, New York 2014 *''Pacific Sun'',

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Group exhibitions

Demand represented Germany at the Bienal de São Paulo in 2004. He participated in the

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(2008),

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(2006), in the

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(2003), the Sydney Biennale (1998), and the Carnegie International (1999/2000). His work has been included in ''New Photography'' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1996), ''Elsewhere'' at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1997), ''Great Illusions: Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha'' at

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, North Miami, (1999), ''Moving Pictures'' at the

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and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002 and 2003), and ''The Constructed Image'' at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto (2007). Moreover, the video ''Pacific Sun'' formed part of the 2012

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Collections

Demand's work is held in the following public collections: *

, New York * Guggenheim Museum, New York *

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, Ottawa * Tate Collection, London

Quotes

* "My pictures reference neither the banal location nor the argument about the sequence of events, but instead those things which are left over in the form of myths and which take on a life of their own."

Publications

* Demand. Thomas. ''Thomas Demand''. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000. * Sobel, Dean; Lars Lerup; and Thomas Demand. ''Thomas Demand catalogue and exhibition: 2001/2002''. Aspen: Aspen Art Museum; Amsterdam: De Appel, 2001. * Demand, Thomas; Helmut Friedel; Poul Erik Tøjner; and Susanne Gaensheimer. ''Thomas Demand: Lenbachhaus München: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek''. München: Schirmer/Mosel, 2002. * Demand, Thomas; and Marcella Beccaria. ''Thomas Demand''. Milano: Skira, 2002. * Demand, Thomas. ''Thomas Demand: Beitrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur 26a Bienal de São Paulo 2004 = German contribution for the 26a bienal of Sao Paulo 2004 = Contribuicão da Republica Federal da Alemanha para a 26a bienal de São Paulo 2004''. Köln: König, 2004. * Demand, Thomas; Eckhard Schneider; Ralph Rugoff; and Julia Franck. ''Thomas Demand: phototrophy''. München: Schirmer/Mosel, 2004. * Marcoci, Roxana; Thomas Demand; and Jeffrey Eugenides. ''Thomas Demand''. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. * Demand, Thomas; Beatriz Colomina; and Alexander Kluge. ''Thomas Demand''. London: Serpentine Gallery; München: Schirmer/Mosel, 2006. * Demand, Thomas; Dietmar Dath; Christian Demand; Joachim Valentin; and Andreas Bee. ''Thomas Demand: Klause''. Köln: König, 2006. * Demand, Thomas; Dave Eggers; Enrique Juncosa; and Karen Sweeney. ''Thomas Demand: l'ésprit d'escalier''. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art; Köln: König; New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2007. * Demand, Thomas; and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. ''Thomas Demand''. Köln: König; New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2007. * Demand, Thomas; Botho Strauss; and Udo Kittelmann. ''Nationalgalerie''. Göttingen: Steidl Mack, 2009. * Demand, Thomas. ''Thomas Demand/Black Label''. Kitakyushu: Center for Contemporary Art, CA Kitakyushu, 2009. * Demand, Thomas; and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. ''Thomas Demand und die Nationalgalerie: Gespräch über die Ausstellung mit Hans Ulrich Obrist, Berlin 2009 = A conversation about the exhibition with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Berlin 2009''. Köln: König, 2009. * Demand, Thomas; Tacita Dean; Rodney Graham; Luigi Ghirri; and Christy Lange. ''La Carte d'après Nature''. London: Mack, 2010. * Demand, Thomas. ''Thomas Demand: Model Studies''. Madrid/London: Ivory Press, 2011. * Demand, Thomas. ''Thomas Demand''. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2012. * Demand, Thomas. ''Thomas Demand: The Dailies''. London: Mack, 2012. * ''The Complete Papers.'' London: Mack, 2018. All of Demand's work over the past 28 years, with texts.

Films about Demand

* ''Memories on demand - the imagery of Thomas Demand / Das Spiel mit der Erinnerung-Die Bilderwelt des Thomas Demand.'' Documentarie, Germany, 2011, 26 Min., first Broadcast on arte: 12. June 2011, Author & Director: Jeremy JP Fekete, Production: rb/arte
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from arte, nominated for the 21. Deutschen Kamerapreis 2011, Categorie: Documentaries "cut"
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Hear the artist speak about his work
MoMA Audio: Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand: Deconstructing the authentic
Video interview by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Demand, Thomas 1964 births Living people Photographers from Hamburg German sculptors Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni German contemporary artists University of Fine Arts of Hamburg faculty