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THOMAS KELLNER
Thomas Kellner, born in Bonn, Germany in 1966. He studied art, sociology, politics and economy at the University of Siegen/Germany. Kodak Germany awarded him the Young Professionals Prize upon which he decided on a life in art and photography. Since 1997, Thomas has been living and working as a visual artist in Siegen. In 2003 and 2004, Kellner was a visiting professor of fine art photography at the University of Giessen. In 2003, Kellner received the call for membership to the German Association for Photography (DGPh). Since 2005, Kellner has been regularly invited as an expert to meeting places around the world, such as the festivals in Brasilia, Houston and Beijing.
From the beginning of his studies, Kellner’s basic interest was in experimental and conceptual photography. He developed different pinhole series, photogram work and printings in alternative techniques, such as cyanotype, saltpaper and others. Kellner’s main interests have always been in finding strong visual language combined with layers of contents. After a project on the German border, he started working on European monuments in 1997 using the contact sheet method and “deconstructing architecture as a visual language”. Since 2003, Kellner has been working on architectural exteriors and interiors around the world. The buildings seem to be broken apart, dancing and remind us of the vulnerability of our values and creations.
Thomas Kellner has shown his work in solo exhibitions in: Aarhus, Brasilia, Boston, Chicago, Cologne, Giessen, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Portland, Siegen, and Stuttgart, among others. |
