Artist
Thomas Scheibitz
German, b. 1968
Thomas Scheibitz is a German artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Thomas Scheibitz was born in Radeberg.
Overview
Thomas Scheibitz (born 1968 in Radeberg, East Germany) is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin.
Life and work
The son of an East German stonemason, Thomas Scheibitz was born in Radeberg, Germany in 1968. A student of Professor Ralf Kerbach, he studied alongside Frank Nitsche and Eberhard Havekost at the Dresden Art Academy. He started painting and producing sculpture in 1990 and quickly gained international recognition. Through the use of both mediums, he explores the boundary between figuration and abstraction, playing with the traditional genres of landscape, still life and portraiture. According to Roberta Smith, "his sculptures resemble architectural models or fragments of logos; his paintings are vaguely figurative".
Exhibitions
Solo shows include the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999), Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco (2001), Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2001), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2004), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), and Musée d' Art Moderne, Luxembourg (2008). In 2010, the Drawing Room, London, presented "A moving plan B - chapter ONE", a group exhibition of drawings selected by Scheibitz. As well as artists of his own generation - Dirk Bell, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Mathew Hale, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski and Peter Stauss – he also selected those of an older generation born in East Germany - Carl Friedrich Claus, Hermann Glöckner, Manfred Kuttner, A.R. Penck and Eugene Schönebeck.
Select solo shows
ONE-Time Pad, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, GB, 2013 ONE-Time Pad, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, D, 2012 A Panoramic View of Basic Events, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, 2012 mk/Ultra, Sprüth Magers Berlin, D, 2011 Lineage ONE / Stilleben & Statistics, Jarla Partilager, Berlin, D, 2011 Il fiume e le sue fonti, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, I, 2011 Der ungefegte Raum, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, A, 2010 A moving plan B – chapter TWO, Sprüth Magers, London, GB, 2010 A moving plan B — chapter ONE, ausgewählt von / selected by Thomas Scheibitz, Drawing Room, London, GB, 2010 A.C.G.T., Produzentengalerie Hamburg, D, 2009 The Missing Link in Delphi, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, 2009 The Goldilocks Zone, Sprüth Magers Berlin, D, 2008 about 90 elements / TOD IM DSCHUNGEL, Camden Arts Centre, London, GB, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE, 2007 Der Tisch, der Ozean und das Beispiel, 51. Biennale Venedig, Deutscher Pavillon, I, 2005 ABC - I II III, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, CH, 2004 Maus Appetit Dezember, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA, 2002 I-geometrica B, Matrix i95 Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2001 BANNISTER DIAMOND, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL, 2001 Pablo Picasso x Thomas Scheibitz: Sign Scene Lexicon, Berggruen Museum, Berlin, 2019–2020
Select group shows
William S. Burroughs: Retrospective, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, D, 2013 Don’t Be Shy, Don’t Hold Back – The Logan Collection at SMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2012 Fruits de la Passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, F, 2012 Common Ground, 13th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, IT, 2012 If not in this period of time — Contemporary German Painting, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, BR, 2010 cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, D, 2009 Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, 2009 Gipfeltreffen der Moderne — Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, D, 2009 Revue. Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, München / Munich, D, 2009 WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA, 2008 The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, D, 2008 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA — Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2007 Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, USA, 2007 The Artist Dining Room, Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery, London, GB, 2007 Von Richter bis Scheibitz: Deutsche Arbeiten auf Papier seit 1960 aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, CH, 2006 Construction New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, USA, 2006 The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery Berlin, D, 2005 Drawing from the Modern 1975–2005, MoMA — Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 2005 An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, London, GB, 2005 26th Biennale São Paulo, BR, 2004 Art contemporain, de 1960 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F, 2004 Supernova, Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SFMOMA — San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA, 2003 Berlin-Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, D, 2003 Pittura/Painting: Von Rauschenberg bis Murakami, Museo Correr, 50. Biennale Venedig, I, 2003 deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, D, 2003
Collections
Scheibitz' works are included in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Collections represented
Museum