Born: Munich, 1964

Education: Goldsmiths College, London, 1993–94
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1990–92
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, 1987–90

Currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.

2022
Model Studies, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
The Stutter of History, UCCA Edge, Shanghai. Traveling to Jeu de Paume, Paris; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Taipei Fine Arts Museum (catalogue)

2021

Sprüth Magers, London
Camere che sognarono Camere: Thomas Demand & Martin Boyce, Palazzo Mosto, Venice
Mirror Without Mercy, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Mundo de Papel, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
Refuge/Refugiu, Muzeul de Artă Recentă, Bucharest
Recortes, Galería Helga De Alvear, Madrid

2020

House of Card, Museum Leuven, Belgium. Traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (catalogue)

2018

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Archivmaterial/ New Stop Motion, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Galleria Gentili, Florence

2017

The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. Fondazione Prada - Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice

2016

Focus: Thomas Demand, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Villa Palmona - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

2015

Modellstudien, Siza Pavilion, Raketenstation, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany
Daily Show, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Model Studies: Kōtō-Ku, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2014

Pacific Sun, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dailies 2008–2014, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Model Studies, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen

2013

Model Studies, Graham Foundation, Chicago
Dailies, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
High Line Billboard, High Line, New York

2012

Animations, Des Moines Art Center, IA. Traveled to DHC Art Center, Montreal
The Dailies, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Model Studies, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom
Model Studies, Esther Schipper, Berlin
The Dailies, Kaldor Public Art Projects #25, Sydney
The Dailies, Sprüth Magers, London (catalogue)
Kunst Gespräch, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany

2010

La carte d’après nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (catalogue)

2009

Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Presidency Embassy, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
The Dailies, Centro Cultural Usina do Gasometro, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2008

Sprüth Magers, London
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (catalogue)
Camera, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Black Label, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (catalogue)
Rain/Regen, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
...5 Minutes Later, Kunstwerke E.V., Berlin

2007

Salzburger Festspiele, Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, Austria
L'esprit d’Escalier, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (catalogue)

2006

Max Beckmann und Thomas Demand, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Tunnel, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)

2005

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

2004

Phototrophy, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (catalogue)
São Paulo Biennale (catalogue)

2003

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
Dundee Contemporary Arts, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Lenbachhaus, Munich
The Office, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

2002

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (catalogue)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (catalogue)

2001

Thomas Demand con Caruso St. John architetti, Galleri d'art moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Florence (catalogue)
Report, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (catalogue)
ArtPace, San Antonio. Traveled to the Aspen Art Museum, CO; SITE Santa Fe, NM (catalogue); and De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (catalogue)

2000

Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris (catalogue)
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne

1999

Art Now: Thomas Demand, Tunnel, Tate Britain, London

1998

Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Milan
303 Gallery, New York
Schipper + Krome, Berlin
Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

1997

Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin, France

1996

Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France (catalogue)
Galerie Tanit, Munich
Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1995

Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels

1994

Galerie Tanit, Cologne
Galerie Blancpain-Stepcynski, Geneva

1992

Galerie Tanit, Munich
Förderkoje, Art Cologne
Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels

2022

Space for Imaginative Actions: Presentation of the Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bonn

2021

Home Life, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
A Fire In My Belly, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
MADE REALITIES: Photographs by Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany (catalogue)
Les Citoyens, Triennale Milano
The Youngest Day, carlier gebauer, Berlin
Continuously Contemporary: New Works from the Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, Kunstmuseum Basel

2020

JSC on View, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie, #2: Eine Ausstellung in mehreren Kapiteln, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany

2019

Thrill of Deception: From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana, Venice
Memory of the Sublime, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzerland

2018

Faithless Pictures, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Tacita Dean: Still Life, The National Gallery, London
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (catalogue)
Light Sensitive 2: Photography from the Schaufler Collection, SCHAUWEK Sindelfingen, Germany
Image Profile: Aspects of the Documentary in MMK's Photography Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
The Big Picture: A Transformative Gift from the Hall Family Foundation, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
[CONTROL] NO CONTROL, Triennial of Photography Hamburg
She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Wales, United Kingdom
A gaze into architecture - Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture, Architecture DEPOT Museum, Tokyo
Catastrophe and the Power of Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Surface Matters: A Photographic Collection on Ceramics, Mutina for Art, Modena, Italy
OUTLOOK – Insight: Windows in the Arts, Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany

2017

Jardins, Grand Palais, Paris
Mentally Yellow (High Noon), Kunstmuseum Bonn; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Skulpturen aus Papier. Von Kurt Schwitters bis Karla Black, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
Ugly as Art: Distortions in Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Seoul National University
Caruso St. John: Constructions and References, Architekturgalerie, Berlin
NEVER ENOUGH, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
Make New History - The 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center
Leonard Cohen - Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

2016

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
L'Exposition imaginaire, Kunsthalle Wien
Art from Elsewhere, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom
L'image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan (catalogue)
TeleGen. Art and Television, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Manifesta - Break Hour, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (catalogue)
Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Candle, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Are We Human?, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial

2015

Recto Verso, Fondazione Prada, Milan
War II: History Series, MOSTYN, Llanduudno, United Kingdom
Model Behaviour, The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, United Kingdom
Fascination Photography, ESSL Museum, Vienna
Covert Operations, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Mijn Vlakke Land, Fotomuseum Antwerp, Belgium
Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana, Albania
Flirting with Strangers, The Belvedere, Vienna
Prospect 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Future Present, Schaulager, Basel (catalogue)
neue enden, Kasseler Kunstverein e. V.
Art & Foods. Rituals since 1851, Expo Milano 2015
Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
New Discoveries and Other Obsessions: New Exhibitions of Works from the MAC Collection, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Museum Studies, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
MODEL, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2014

Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation about Jasper Johns, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven
Now You See It: Photography and Concealment, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Beneath the Ground, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Kafer, Crash und Capr-Batterie, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim, Germany
Bad Thoughts - Collection Martijn and Jeanette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
In Dialogue: Wolfgang Tillmans, Philadelphia Museum of Art
One Million Years - System and Symptom, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Tears of Things, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ. Traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, CA (catalogue)
Visual Deception II: Into the Future, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo. Traveled to The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe; and Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
Deceit of Reality, Academy of Arts, Berlin

2013

Heimsuchung. Unsichere Räume in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Der Schein, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Stadt in Sicht - Von Feininger bis Gursky, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Realität und Fiktion, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Contemporary German Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Saint Louis
STILL, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
Nayland Blake, Thomas Demand, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau & Wade Guyton, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Madame Wu and the Mill from Hell, The British School in Rome
Incontri, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany
L'Oeil Photographie, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
Finding Deities in a Tree/A Plant, Iwami Art Museum, Masuda, Japan
Station to Station, Public art project, traveled by train from New York to San Francisco
A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice
Mise-en-scene, Leeum Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
Re:Emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11, United Arab Emirates

2012

The Studio: Workshop and Myth from Spitzweg to Picasso from Giacometti to Nauman, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Common Ground, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale
Primer Acto, Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, NM. Traveled to Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Looking Back For The Future, Kunsthalle Zürich
Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst and MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt
An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; and Phoenix Museum of Art
Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of an Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Traveled to Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain; and Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Ray/Making History, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

2011

Real Space Conceptual Space, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath College of Fine Arts, Bangalore, India
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London
Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Small Collections Room: Postcards from the World Beneath: the collection of Gerhard Stein, curated by Thomas Demand, Nottingham Contemporary, The Small Collections Room, England
This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
New Contemporary Galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
MMK 1991–2011: 20 Years of Presence, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in Saint Louis
September 11, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kunsthalle Macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Light-Sensitive: Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany
Photography Calling! Photography and the Present, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit, Akademie-Galerie der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Saal (Hall), 2011, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Photosensitive: Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany

2010

Realism, The Adventure of Reality: Courbet, Hopper, Gursky..., Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; and Kunsthal Rotterdam
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU SEE, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London. Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Dissolve, SITE Sante Fe Eighth International Biennial, NM
12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
A Moving Plan B: Chapter One, The Drawing Room, London
La Carte D’Après Nature, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Traveled to Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, Whitworth Art Gallery at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Global Design, Museum of Design Zürich

Last Days in Der Linienstrasse, Esther Schipper, Belin
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel

2009

Extended. Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Vague Terrain: Analogues of Place in Contemporary Photography, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Yellow and Green, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2° Bienal del fin del mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina
Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Russian Linesman, Hayward Gallery, London
Event Horizon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
MOCA'S First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Industrial. Light. Magic, Goethe-Institut, New York
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Slash: Paper Under the Knife, MAD Museum, New York
Il Tempo del Postino, Theater Basel

2008

Questioning History, The Past in the Present, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Reality Check, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
What You See Is What You Get, Centre national de l'audiovisuel, Luxembourg
11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Architecture Biennale
Interieur/Exterieur, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
7th Gwangju Biennale
Real.Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Spiegel Geheimer Wünsche, Hamburger Kunsthall, Hamburg
…5 minutes later, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
WAR & ART, Kyoto University of Art and Design
Inside//Outside, Museum Küppersmuhle, Duisburg, Germany
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Flag Art Foundation, New York. Traveled to Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Western Motel, Edward Hopper, and Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wien
Broken Home, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA

2007

If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, United Kingdom. Traveled to CAPC Museé d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
MUDAM Guest House 07, Musee D'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Photography: will dethrone painting, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon sur Saône, France
Guggenheim Collection, National Gallery, Victoria, Australia
FLASHCUBE, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul
Clio: A short history of art in Euramerica after 1945, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
cross-border. Photography and Video Art from the MUMOK Vienna, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
From the Earth to the Moon: Metaphors for Travel (PartII), Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris
RAUM. Orte der Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in Saint Louis. Traveled to Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany (catalogue)
Paint it blue: Works from the ACT Art Collection|Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Mondi Possibili, Sprüth Magers, Cologne
Under the Starry Sky. Works from the Willy Michel Collection, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Momentos Estelares, Círculo De Bellas Artes, Madrid

2006

The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Gold Standard, MoMA PS1, New York
Spectacular City, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam. Traveled to NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
The Blue Rider in the Twenty First Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
6th Shanghai Biennale: Hyper Design
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Thomas Demand/Gregor Schneider: Works from the Olbricht Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Werkgruppen und Installationen, Kunstmuseum Basel
Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Faszination Fussball, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserlautern, Germany
Constructing new Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum. Traveled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Artes Mundi, Wales International Visual Art Prize, National Museum, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Gut + Böse. Politik, Kunst, Gesellschaft, Museen der Stadt Lüdenscheid, Germany
Auto-Nom-Mobile, Kunstverein Kassel
Archisculpture, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Germany

2005

Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Thank you for the Music, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
Out There: Landscape in the new Millennium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Nach Rokytnik. Die Sammlung der EVN, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Das verlorene Paradies - Die Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Photographie, Siftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Very early pictures, Luckman Gallery, The California State University, Los Angeles
Multiple Räume: Park, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
After the Fact, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, United Kingdom. Traveled to Gropiusbau, Berlin.
Atlantic & Bukarest, Kunstmuseum Basel
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Traveled to White Columns, New York

2004

Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle Wien
ArchiSculpture, Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Traveled to Guggenheim Bilbao; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Vaerker og Dage. Nyerhvervelser I Louisianas Samling 2004-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Love/Hate from Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

2003

Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Real Space Conceptual Space, Anna Achmatowa Museum, Saint Petersburg. Traveled to Museum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie, Poland
Adorno: Die Möglichkeit des Unmöglichen, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Berlin/Moskau – Moskau/Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Traveled to State Historical Museum, Moscow
Contemporary German Photography, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Neo Rauch und Europäische Gegenwartskunst, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Eden, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Centro Histórico, Guadalajara, Mexico
Interludes, Venice Biennale
20th Anniversary Show, Sprüth Magers, Cologne
Journey to Now: John Kaldor Art Projects and Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Zeitgenössische Deutsche Fotografie, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Imaginando espacios, recreando realidades. Colección Fundación ARCO, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. Traveled to Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

2002

Thomas Demand, Yasumasa Morimura, Fred Tomaselli, SITE Santa Fe, NM
Great Theatre of the World, 3rd Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Everyday Utopias, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Guggenheim Bilbao (catalogue)
Andere Räume, Kunstverein Hamburg
True Fictions, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
non-places, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Trade, Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam

2001

Loop, MoMA PS1, New York
La Natura della natura morta da Mane tai nostri giorni, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien
Klasse Schwegler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Ich bin mein Auto, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Connivence, Biennale de Lyon, France
TRADE. Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Traveled to Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
Thomas Demand and Caruso St John, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Inside House, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, France
Tempted to Pretend, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Und keiner hinkt, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Tracking, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Big nothing, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

2000

Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Supermodel, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
DAAD: Weltwårts, Kunstmuseum Bonn
La forma del mondo/la fine del mondo, Padiglione d`Arte Contemporaneo, Milan
Open Ends: Sets and Situations, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Die Künstlerstiftung: 25 Jahre Karl Schmidt-Rotluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Die Scheinbaren Dinge, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Clip City/City Vision, Media City Seoul, Metropolitan Museum
Négociations, Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Sète, France
Deep Distance, Kunsthalle Basel
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1999

Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet Umeå, Umeå, Sweden. Traveled to Casetllo di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Vancouver Art Gallery; Tramway, Glasgow; and Charlottensborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
Children of Berlin: Cultural Developments 1989-1999, MoMA PS1, New York. Traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Can you hear me? 2nd Ars Baltica Triennal of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany; and Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Fotografie und Archiv, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
Kraftwerk Berlin, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Grosse Illusionen (Great Illusions: Demand, Gursky, Ruscha), Kunstmuseum Bonn. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Tomorrow for Ever. Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Traveled to Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
Spaced Out: Late 1990s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Insight-Out: landschaft und Interiur als Themen zeitgenössischer Photographie, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria. Traveled to Kunsthaus Hamburg; and Kunsthaus Baselland

1998

Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale
Every Day, Biennale of Sydney
Être Nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
DG Bank-Preis für künstlerische Fotografie, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Vollkommen gewöhnlich, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. Traveled to Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; and Kunstsammlung Gera, Germany
Artificial, Museu d´Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Zone, Fondazione Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Guarene, Italy

1997

Elsewhere, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Stills: Emerging Photography in the 90's, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Heaven: Public View, Private View, MoMA PS1, New York
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen zu Gast im Bonner Kunstverein, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Transit, Centre national des arts plastiques and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland seit 1945, Berlinische Galerie and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Une Minute Scenario (par Jerome Sans), Le Printemps de Cahors/Fondation Cartier, France
Making It Real, Organized by Independent Curators Incorporated. Traveled to Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Iceland; Portland Art Museum, OR; and Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

1996

Raumbilder–Bildräume, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
New Photography 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d'arte contemporaneo, Turin, Italy. Traveled to Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Radical Images, 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. Traveled to Szombathelyi Képtàr, Szombathely, Hungary
Prospect 96—Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Frankfurt
Passions privées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1995

Ars Viva 1995 – Thomas Demand, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Barbara Probst und Jochen Lempert, Kunstverein Frankfurt. Traveled to Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Morceaux Choisis du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Magasin-Centre National d´art contemporain de Grenoble, France

1994

Scharf im Schauen, Haus der Kunst, Munich

1992

Photoladen, Kunstwekstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich