Matthew Marks Gallery

Thomas Demand

  • 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.

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    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 dEscalier, 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

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    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