Alphabet T1 | Ditone print on rag paper | signed | limited edition
Thomas Scheibitz’s work seems to be immediately recognizable at first glance. We see a pictorial space in which the letter T can be easily deciphered. Or is it rather an abstract face? Or the front of a house? We are already puzzled. Because the artist doesn’t want to make it that easy for us. It is precisely the ambiguous that becomes the subject of his painting.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Thomas Scheibitz became an internationally sought-after artist. As in an assemblage, he combines a wide variety of elements and colors in his – often monumental – murals to create a coherent composition. To this end, he collects various materials in a kind of library, which then serve as vocabulary, tools, and grammar for drawings and paintings.
Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection
VITA THOMAS SCHEIBITZ (short form)
1969 born in Radeberg | 1991-1996 studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK), graduated in 1996, master student of Prof. Kerbach, HfBK Dresden | since 2018 State Academy of Art Düsseldorf, Professor of Painting and Sculpture
AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS (selection)
1995 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes | 1996 Master student of Prof. Kerbach, HfBK Dresden | 1998 Hegenbarth scholarship, project TYCOON-TOKIO | 2003 Karl Schmidt-Rotluff scholarship
1998 Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, NY, USA | 1999 Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, Museum of Contemporary Art | 2000 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA | 2001 Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, USA Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland | Walker Art Center Minneapolis, USA | 2002 Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris, France | 2003 Kerlin Gallery Dublin, Ireland | 2004 Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Saõ Paulo | Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland | Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | 2005 Venice Biennale, German Pavilion, Italy | 2006 Denver Art Museum, USA | 2007 Lenbachhaus Munich | Museum Folkwang, Essen | Tate Modern, London, Great Britain | 2008 Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg | Kunsthalle Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain | 2009 Bundeskunsthalle Bonn | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich | 2010 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Köln | 2011 Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2012 ZMK Karlsruhe | 2013 Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin | 2014 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art of Kobe, Japan | 2015 Deichtorhallen Hamburg | 2016 Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France | 2017 Kunsthaus Dresden | 2018 Boers-Le Gallery Beijing, China | 2019 Museum Berggruen Berlin | 2020 Gallery Vacancy Shanghai, China | 2021 Sprengel Museum Hannover | 2022 Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland | 2023 Art Basel Unlimited, Switzerland