Thomas Florschuetz was born in Zwickau, in 1957. In 1987 he was awarded the first prize for new European photography in Frankfurt am Main. In 1988 he moved to Berlin. In 1993 he received a grant enabling him to spend seven months in New York. He lives in Berlin and Paris.
Thomas Florschuetz photographs the human body without, however, taking it as his real subject. His principal interest lies in the compositional aspects of photography. Alongside portraits of his friends, he has largely produced photographic images that are characterized by the use of radical perspectives. Often these images show details of the body surface, only a few centimeters in diameter, of which it is impossible to say to which part of the body they belong. Such photographs are usually printed on a very large scale and exhibited in series. Florschuetz eschews the use of titles to explain the subject of his images and employs them merely to point out the structural qualities predominant in any particular grouping of them: "Staircase", "Pyramid", "Diptych". During the long periods he has spent in Berlin, Paris and New York since 1988, Florschuetz mastered new photographic reproduction techniques, for example C-print or cibachrome. From the late 1980s his images gradually became larger, more colourful and more abstract. In the early 1990s his preferred motif became the human hand, which he photographed back-lit, as a vast, glowing red apparition.
During the last two years, however, the colouring in his work has become paler and Florschuetz's attention has shifted to the surface of legs and feet.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Thomas Florschuetz: Overlays ,Haus am Waldsee, A Place for the Arts ,Berlin, Germany
2021
Thomas Florschuetz: Elephant's Breath ,DIEHL ,Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
2020
Thomas Florschuetz: Framing ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2016
Thomas Florschuetz: Adaptation ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2013
Thomas Florschuetz: Glas/Wasser ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2011
Thomas Florschuetz: Imperfekt ,Museet for Fotokunst (Museum of Photographic Art) ,Odense, Denmark
2010
Thomas Florschuetz: Buildings and Structures ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
Thomas Florschuetz ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2009
Thomas Florschuetz: Jets ,DIEHL ,Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
I Want to See Art ,Les Douches la Galerie ,10e, Paris, France
2022
Full House ,MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art ,Duisburg, Germany
Antipodes ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2020
Glass and Concrete. Manifestations of the Impossible ,Marta Herford ,Herford, Germany
2019
Palast der Republik. Satellite ,KVOST ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Galerie m ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2017
Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour through the collection of the GfZK Leipzig ,Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) ,Leipzig, Germany
Mirror Images. Reflections in Art and Medicine ,Kunstmuseum Thun ,Thun, Switzerland
2016
Hopes of Paradise ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
facing ,Galerie Koal ,Berlin, Germany
Elective Affinities: German Art Since the Late 1960s ,LNMM, Exhibition Hall ARSENALS ,Riga, Latvia
2015
Pas De Deux ,Kunst Haus Wien ,Vienna, Austria
2014
B L A N K _ S P A C E ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2012
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 ,Kochi Biennale Foundation ,Kerala, India
The Shuttered Society: Art Photography in the GDR 1949-1989 ,Berlinische Galerie ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Play it again, Sam ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
2009
Mixed Media On Paper ,Raab Galerie ,Berlin, Germany
2008
Out of the Blue - Aus heiterem Himmel ,Galerie m Bochum ,Bochum, Germany
