Kleinmachnow, Germany, 1966. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education
1987 – 1989 Training College for Photography, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2018 15 [Quince], Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2018 Frank Thiel: Quinceañeras, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
2014 Frank Thiel: Nowhere is a Place, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 Frank Thiel: Nowhere is a Place, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States
2014 Los Arados de Dios, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2010 Frank Thiel, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2009 Frank Thiel, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2009 Frank Thiel: New Work, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2006 Frank Thiel: Void Territory, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2006 The Search For Distance, Goethe Institute Thessaloniki, Greece (traveling exhibition)
2005 National Art Museum, Kiev, Ukraine; Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2004 Frank Thiel, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2003 Frank Thiel – Fotograpfien der Jahre 1999-2003, Galerie Krizinger, Vienna, Austria
2003 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2002 Frank Thiel, Sean Kelly, New York
2002 Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
2001 Begijnhof II; Under Construction, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona
2001 Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain
2001 Goethe Institute, Oslo, Norway
2000 City TV (Berlin), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2000 Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Norway; Goethe-Institut Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Dublin, Ireland
1999 City TV (Berlin), Galerie Haas und Fuchs, Berlin, Germany; Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany
1999 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
1999 Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1999 Goethe Institutes Singapore; National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Bandung, Indonesia; Bratislava, Slovakia; Museum of Imaging Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
1999 IMAGO’99, Universidad de Salamanca, Centro de Fotografia, Patio de Escuelas, Salamanca, Spain
1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Izmir, Turkey; Goethe Institutes Ankara, Turkey and Seoul, Korea.
1998 Frank Thiel, Berlín, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1997 Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Goethe Institute Minsk, Minsk, Russia; Rosizo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1997 Statements, Art28 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1996 Frank Thiel, Centre Culturel le Parvis, Tarbes, France; Goethe Institute, Brussels, Belgium
1996 Heidelberger Kunstverein, Studio Gallery, Heidelberg, Germany
1996 Hotel Berolina, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
1995 Goethe Institute, Paris, France; Galerie Condé, Paris, France
1995 Prison Gates, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
1993 Modulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
1992 Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany
1991 Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2025 Después de todo: Fotografía en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Madri, Espanha
2025 Parsifal, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2024 The Fog of War, Meckelhalle Freiburg, Germany (touring exhibition)
2023 The Fog of War, Goethe Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia; Goethe Institute Almaty, Kazakhstan; Meckelhalle, Freiburg, Germany (touring exhibition)
2023 Photography in Between: Photography in the IVAM collection after 1950, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valéncia, Spain
2023 The Whole Palette, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2022 Belonging – works from the collection of the European Investment Bank, Bourn Vincent, Gallery of the University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
2022 Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York, United States
2022 Matador 25 Years. Journey to the heart of a mythical magazine, Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
2022 Táctica Sintáctica, Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2022 The Big Picture: Photography’s Moment, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, United States
2022 The Fog of War, Goethe-Center Baku, Kapellhaus, Baku, Azerbaijan (touring exhibition)
2022 The MAST Collection. A visual alphabet of industry, work and technology, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
2021 Fotografo o que não vejo, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Helga de Alvear Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2021 Janelas para dentro (Inward Windows), Casa Millán, São Paulo, Brazil
2021 Moving Memories, Cocoon, Fişekhane, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 Photography in the middle, Photography in the IVAM collection after 1950, Valencian Institute of Modern Art, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2021 Thousand Ways to Say City, Gagliardi and Somke Contemporary, Turin, Italy
2021 Water Reverie, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 What is a Collection made of?, Flux and Metamorphosis, Centro de Arte Contemporânea e Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2021 Wire Frame, A virtual exhibition curated by Mika Tajima, Hill Art Foundation, New York, United States
2020 Eclectic. Photography from the Gagliardi Collection, Gagliardi e Domke Contemporary, Torino, Italy
2020 Nach uns die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2020 Parley Collective x Vortic, initiative by Parley for the Oceans and Vortic in collaboration with 12 galleries, New York, United States (digital exhibition)
2020 The Exhibition – Collect Wisely, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States (digital exhibition)
2020 The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Unites States
2020 Water Reverie, Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 WELTREISE. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs. Werke aus dem Kunstbestand des IFA 1949 − heute, Art Palace, Minsk, Belarus (touring exhibition)
2020 World Peace, MoCA Westport, Connecticut, United States
2019 4th Montevideo Biennial – Travesías Atlánticas (curated by Alfons Hug and Alejandro Cruz), Montevideo, Uruguay
2019 My Garden of Eden (curated by Bob van Orsouw), Christopher Guye Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2019 A Doll’s House (curated by Alfons Hug and Asli Samadova), Goethe Institut, German-Azerbaijani Cultural Association, Kapellhaus, Baku, Azerbaijan; Goethe Institut, Tbilsi, Georgia
2019 Epidermis – Conditio humana – Cosmos Works from the Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseunm Liechntenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2019 The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
2018 The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
2018 Beyond Borders (curated by Delphine Munro and Michket Krifa), Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2018 11th Mercosul Biennial, O Triângulo do Atlântico (curated by Alfons Hug and Paula Borghi), Porto Alegre, Brazil
2018 Before and Behind the Lens. Photography in the Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2017 Remains of the Days, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Selected, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2017 Viajando Pelo Mundo, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 Viaje alrededor del mundo, Instituto Cultural Cabañas & Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
2016 The Antarctic Sublime & Elements of Nature: Water, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, United States
2016 Deck Voyage (curated by Necmi Sönmez), Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Fora da ordem – Obras da Coleção Helga de Alvear, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2016 Zeitgeist: a Arte da Nova Berlim (curated by Alfons Hug), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 WELTREISE. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs. Werke aus dem Kunstbestand des IFA 1949 − heute, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea (touring exhibition)
2015 Convergence(s), works from The European Investment Bank Collection, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
2015 Zeitgeist: a Arte da Nova Berlim (curated by Alfons Hug), Centro Cultura Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (touring exhibition)
2015 Framing Desire: Photography and Video, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, United States
2015 Landscape in My Mind. Landscape Photography Today, Kunstforum Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2014 Momento Contemporâneo (curated by Paulo Venâncio Filho), Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2014 Las lágrimas de las cosas / The Tears of Things, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2014 We, the Enemy – Leben unter Verdacht, European Media Art Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
2014 Forms of Attraction: Kjaerholm, Tenreiro and Selected Works, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2014 WELTREISE. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs. Werke aus dem Kunstbestand des IFA 1949 − heute, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (touring exhibition)
2014 Accrochage, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
2014 Hatje Cantz & du Moulin im Bikini, Bikini, Berlin, Germany
2013 El Arte Del Presente, Colección Helga de Alvear, Centro Cibeles de Cultura Ciudadanía, Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain
2013 Vues d’en haut / Views From Above, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2013 Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Blider einer Stadt, Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin, Germany
2013 WELTREISE. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs. Werke aus dem Kunstbestand des IFA 1949 − heute, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (touring exhibition)
2013 Stadt in Sicht – Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank. Von Feininger bis Gursky, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2012 Além da Forma, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
2012 CIFO: Una mirada múltiple. Selecciones de la Colección Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2012 The Gallery Collection, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Elton John’s AIDS Foundation Photography Portfolio II, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States
2012 Juegos de Lenguaje, Una introducción al arte de nuestro tiempo, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2012 Fotografia Contemporânea, Galeria Cordeiros, Porto, Portugal
2012 Under Construction: Art and Architecture in the Collection Teixeira de Freitas, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain
2012 First Choice—From Private Collections V, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, Switzerland
2011 Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, The Philips Collection, Washington, United States
2011 Portraits of Artists, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States
2011 *Plus que vrai!, Genomic Center for the Arts, Saint Die des Vosges, France
2011 Ludwig Schwarz: On Painting, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, United States
2011 Private Art Collection, Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 Still (curated by Diedrich Diederichsen), Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
2011 Gentes e Lugares / People and Places. O Novo Som e a Imagem na Colecção Berardo / The New Sound and Image in the Berardo Collection, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Portraits & Faces, Heldart | Matthias Held, Berlin, Germany
2010 Schimmern/ Shimmering, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2010 *FOOTNOTE NUMBER FOUR: On Rem Koolhaas and Harald Szeemann, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas and Sophie von Olfers, Artists Space, New York, United States
2010 Nullpunkt / Ground Zero (curated by Martin Herbert), Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2010 Art and Architecture in Contemporary Photographs, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, United States
2010 Building Blocks (curated by Diedrich Diederichsen), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2010 Colección Bergé, Heterotopías. Una aproximación a las narrativas disidentes, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain
2010 Accrochage, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2010 Estancias, Residencias, Presencias. Una construcción particular, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2010 Inside Out, Photography After Form: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneiros, Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, United States
2010 Menos Tiempo que Lugar, El Arte de la Independencia: Ecos Contemporáneos, Palais de Glace – Palacio Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (touring exhibition)
2010 Out of Control—Berlin, BIP2010 – 7ème Biennale Internationale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels, Le Grand Curtius, Liège, Belgium
2009 Atlas Cartographie du don (curated by Elia Pijollet), Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
2009 La luz en la Colección Helga de Alvear / Light in the Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2009 The Poetic Document, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2009 Heimat Moderne. Die Fotografie von Arno Fischer bis Frank Thiel, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
2009 Arbeiten in Berlin, Werke aus der Berlinischen Galerie (curated by Jörn Merkert), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 Universos Desdoblados, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
2009 Landpartie II. Kunst in und aus Brandenburg 1999 – 2009, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Potsdam, Germany
2009 Artists Of The Gallery, A Special Selection, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2009 As Time Goes By, Kunstwerke über Zeit, Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
2009 Berlin 89/09 – Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
2009 Berlin Now, Gallery Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
2009 Intersecciones: Memoria, Realidad y Nuevos Tiempos, X Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
2009 Kunst und Öffentlichkeit. 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2009 private view, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
2008 Artist-Citizen, Contextual Art Practices, 49th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 Constructio, Galería Antonio de Barnola, Barcelona, Spain
2008 The Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Artists Respond to the Exercise of Power in Contemporary Life, Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, United States
2008 Relíquias & Ruínas, SESC Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
2008 Atemporalidad, Colección PECAR, Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Santander, Spain
2008 Summer Exhibition, Cook Fine Art, New York, United States
2008 En face / surface, Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2008 Generational Issue, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2007 Janus—The Double Face of Photography, Holdings from the Permanent Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2007 Relíquias & Ruínas, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; SESC Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
2007 Global Anxieties: Perspectives on a Changing Planet, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, United States
2007 A Generational Question, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2007 La vida privada: Representations of Tragedy and Contemporary Banalities, Colección Josep Ma Civit, CDAN Centro de Arte y Naturaleza – Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
2007 Poul Kjærholm: Structures and Surfaces, Sean Kelly and R Gallery, New York, United States
2007 Spectacular Space, Galerie Bob van Orsow, Zürich, Switzerland
2007 Pure, Sean Kelly, New York, United States
2007 Façade, Architecture, Space, Cook Fine Art, New York, United States
2007 Guests, Galería Juan Silió, Santander, Spain
2006 Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. A Tale of Two Cities, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2006 Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Germany
2006 Constructing New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, United States
2006 Flic Flac, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
2006 Glasskultur: What Became of Transparence? Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain; Centre d’Art La Panera, Lérida, Spain
2006 Helga de Alvear – Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil
2006 Hundred Kisses Are Better Than One, Krinzinger Projects, Vienna, Austria
2006 Landscape in Contemporary Photography, Briggs Robinson Gallery, Southampton, United States
2006 Metropolitanscape, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
2006 Photo-Septiembre, Jacob Karpio Galería, San José, Costa Rica
2006 Photosynkria 2006: Contemporary Trends in Documentary Photography, Museum for Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 Post-Doc, Museum for Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 Suspension, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, United States
2005 Architektur mobil, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2005 Beyond Delirious, Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, United States
2005 Contemporary Visions, Photographs and Videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Oulun City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland; Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
2005 Gegenwelten. The 20th Century in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2005 Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
2005 Passion Beyond Reason, Wallstreet One, Berlin, Germany
2005 Private View 1980/2000: Collection Pierre Huber, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2004 On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004 Faces, Places, Traces: New Acquisitions to the Photographs Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2004 Return to Realism. Contemporary Art from the UBS Art Collection, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, United States
2004 Building the Collection, New and Future Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2004 A Arañeira. 100 Artists from the CGAC Collection, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2004 durchBlicke durchBrüche, The Collection of Berlinische Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin, Germany
2004 COLD PLAY Set 1 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Paris Photo, Paris, France
2004 La Collection Ordóñez Falcón — Une Passion Partagée, Le Botanique, Cultural Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Community, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Contemporary Visions, Photographs and Videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku, Finland
2004 Querschnitt_Selezione Trasversale, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2004 The Furniture of Poul Kjaerholm and Selected Artwork, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States
2004 Castastrofi minima, Museo de Arte de Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
2003 O Delírio do Chimborazo, 4th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2003 Cold Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2003 Arquivo e Simulação, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
2003 Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, United States / Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, United States
2003 A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2003 La Ciudad Radiante, 2nd Biennale of Valencia, Fundación Bancaixa, Valencia, Spain
2003 Xogos de Escala, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2003 Raum, Zeit—Architektur in der Fotografie, Works from the DZ Bank Collection, Oldenburger Kunstverein, and Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
2003 Realidad y Representación, Collecting Landscapes Today, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
2003 La Photographie Allemande, Galerie Art+Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Tra Est e Ovest—From East to West, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2003 Complicidades II. Aspectos retóricos de la fotografía actual, Centro Nacional de Fotografía de Torrelavega, Torrelavega, Spain
2003 Catastrofi Minime, Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
2002 Iconografias Metropolitanas, Cidades, 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
2002 Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, United States; Fundación Sa Nostra de Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Human Park, An Exhibition of Global Creatures, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain; Fundación Sa Nostra de Palma de Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Divine the Grid, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, United States
2002 Brasília — Ruina e Utopia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasília, Brazil
2002 Sans Consentement, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2002 Agua — Wasser, Antigua Facultad de Medicina / Tribunal del Santo Oficio, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 La Collection Ordóñez Falcón, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, IRPA, Arles, France
2002 Frank Thiel / Bernard Voïta, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 In Szene Gesetzt, Architektur in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2002 Grace & Gravity, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Paisajes Contemporáneos, Colección Helga de Alvear, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
2001 CTRL [Space] Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 Remake Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany; DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
2001 SK 76 / 2-Mp (XIII), Art Unlimited, Art 32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Brave New World, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2001 Begijnhof II; Under Construction, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2001 Crisis. Reflexiones Conceptuales en la Arte Contemporáneo Internacional, Fundación Picasso, Museo Casa Natal, Málaga, Spain
2001 Casas y ciudades, Salas de Armas de la Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain
2001 Taking Care, SMART Projekt Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001 Fotografía Internacional en las colecciones privadas de Cantabria, Sala Robayera, Cantabria, Spain
2001 Imágenes de un tiempo, Sala La Granja, Casa de Cultura, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2000 90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
2000 After The Wall, Ludwig Múzeum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2000 Arquitectura de Colección, Sala de Exposiciones del Ministerio de Fomento, Madrid, Spain
2000 Berlin — Binnendifferenz, Benger-Areal, Bregenz, Austria; 7-Kapellen-Areal, Innsbruck, Austria; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2000 Hans Hemmert, Tracey Moffat, Andrés Pinal, Frank Thiel. Fotógrafos de los años noventa en la colección CGAC, Sala Alameda de la Diputación de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2000 Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2000 Urban Landscapes, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1999 dAPPERTutto, 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999 After The Wall, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 Le corps évanoui, les images subites, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1999 New Works, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
1999 999, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bâtiment Ex Troesch, Bellinzona, Switzerland
1999 Nuevas Visiones / Nuevas Pasiones. Artistas de la Colección Helga de Alvear en Villa Iris, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Villa Iris, Santander, Spain
1999 The Edge of Awareness, WHO Regional Office and The Rabindra Bahvan Lalitkala Academy, New Delhi, India
1999 Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit – Wege der Deutschen 1949–1999, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1998 Blickwechsel, Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998 The Edge of Awareness, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, United States; SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, Brazil
1998 Die Unruhe und die Zufriedenheit oder Die Tragödie des Scheiterns, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998 Luz y Fotografia en la Colección Helga de Alvear, Fundación Caja Vital Kutxa, Vitoria, Spain
1998 Gesichter und Dinge – Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1998 100 Jahre Kunst im Aufbruch, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
1997 In Medias Res, Atatürk Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
1997 Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
1997 Sous le signe de Renger-Patzsch, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1996 Never shown before, Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1996 Junge Kunst, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
1995 Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Cologne, Germany
1995 IN-TRANSIT, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Deutschland, Kunstsammlung Gera, Gera, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1994 Diario, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Cologne, Germany
1994 The Day After Tomorrow, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 IN-TRANSIT, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Deutschland, Immeuble Charlemagne, Conseil des Communautés Européennes, Brussels, Belgium
1994 Zeitgenössische Fotografie ’94, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
1993 Emigration — Bilder von Abschied, Reise und Tod, Galerie Mosel und Tschechow, Munich, Germany
1993 Galerie Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany
1992 Humpty Dumpty’s Kaleidoscope — A New Generation of German Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
1992 Einsamkeit — A German Sensation, Monasterio de Veruela, Veruela, Spain; Fundación “La Caixa,” Madrid, Spain; Sala Catalunya de la Fundació “La Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1992 Jahreslabor. Ein Bericht, Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1991 Panorama des Panoramas, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1991 Papier — Von der Linie zum Objekt, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
1991 Interferenzen — Kunst aus Westberlin 1960–1990, National Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
1991 Neue Aspekte in der Sammlung, Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1990 European Kodak Award, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France; Museo Ken Damy di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Collections
Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Cal Cego Contemporary Art Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Collection Allianz Versicherungs AG, Munich, Germany
Collection Bank of America, New York, United States
Collection Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, Munich, Germany
Collection DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin, Germany
Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Collection Hypo Vereinsbank, New York, United States
Collection of the City of Geneva, Switzerland
Collection University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Contemporary Art Collection of the Region of Madrid, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States
Eastman Museum, Rochester, United States
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, United States
European Investment Bank Collection, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
European Parliament Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Fundación Helga de Alvear, Madrid / Cáceres, Spain
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart (Marx Collection), Berlin, Germany
HBC Global Art Collection, New York, United States
Hilti Art Foundation at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Hill Art Collection, New York, United States
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., United States
ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Lhoist Collection, Limelette, Belgium
MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
The Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami, United States
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, United States
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States
Museum für Neue Kunst im Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., United States
Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection, Portugal
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, United States
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
ZegnArt Collection, Milan, Italy
Prizes
1999 Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1996 Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany
1995 Kulturfonds Foundation Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1995 Award of the Helmut Kraft Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany
1994 Award of the Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
1990 German Kodak Award, Germany