Thomas Scheibitz

Was born in 1968 in Radeberg,Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin,Germany.

EDUCATION

1991-96 Study at the HfBK Dresden, Diploma

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2018 – Der Fluß und seine Quelle, on the occasion of the exhibition Masterplan/Kino at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2012 – One room for the exhibition ONE-Time PAd, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2010 – Moving Plan B for Chapter 1, curated by Thomas Scheibitz, Drawing Room, London, UK.

2003 – 7 zeitgenössische Positionen ausgesucht von Thomas Scheibitz, Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Black Swan, Sprüth Magers, London, UK

2020 – Die Blendung des Richters, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany.

2019 – Pablo Picasso x Thomas Scheibitz. Zeichen Bühne Lexikon, Museum Berggruen, Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
– A Broken Arm of an Island, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain

2018 – Masterplan/Kino, Wilhem-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
– Masterplan/Kino, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

2017
– Etchings / Photogravures, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery & Editions, Berlín, Germany

2016 – Schaulager 9.44, Bureau Müller, Berlin, Germany

2015 – 15.92 X 16, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain

2013 – One-Time Pad, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

2012 – One-Time Pad, MMK Museum für Moderne KunstFrankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
– A Panoramic VIEW of Basic Events, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

2011 – Lineage ONE/Stilleben &; Statistics, Jarla Partilager, Berlin, Germany.
– MK/ULTRA, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany.
– Il fiume e le sue fonti, Collezione Maramotti, Regio Emilia, Italy.
– III Things for the Second ONE, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.

2010 – A moving plans B – chapter TWO, Sprüth Magers London, UK.
– Der ungefegte Raum, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria.

2009 – Thomas Scheibitz, Art Berlin Contemporary, ABC, Berlin, Germany.
– Cargo manifestMünchner Opernfestspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany.
– A. G. C. T. , Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany.
– Missing Link in Delphi, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
2008 – The Goldilocks Zone, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany.
– About 90 elements/ TOD IM DSCHUNGEL, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
– About 90 elements/ MUDAM, Musée d’ Art Moderne Luxembourg.

2007 – About 90 elements/ TOD IM DSCHUNGEL, IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande
– APOLLO, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

2006 – Low Sweetie # Omega Haus, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany.
– Blick über ein bewohntes Tal (View over a populated valley), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York,
USA.
– Casa Amalia Index, Gallerie Sprüth Magers, Köln, Germany.

2005 – Der Tisch, der Ozean und das Beispiel, 51. Biennale Venedig, Deutscher Pavillon, (mit Tino Sehgal), Italy.
– Winterthur grüßt Venedig, Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Museum Winterthur, S¡witzerland.

2004 – Brot & Spiele, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York, USA.
– Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Saõ Paulo, Brazil.
– ABC – I II III, Centre d´Art Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland.

2003 – d i a m o n d p a p e r Editionsheft:Thomas Scheibitz/ DiG Berlin, Germany.
– Galerie Koch und Kesslau, 7 zeitgenössische Positionen ausgesucht von Thomas Scheibitz, Berlin, Germany.

2002 – Venus – Hannibal ad portas, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany.
– Maus Appetit Dezember,Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
– 1- geometrica B, ART PACE, San Antonio,Texas, USA.

2001 – Thomas Scheibitz, Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, USA.
– Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
– 1- geometrica B, Matrix i95 Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
– BANNISTER DIAMOND, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.
– Ansicht und Plan von Toledo, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
– Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany.
2000 – Surrogate, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany.

1999 – Final Gold, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.

1998 – Low Sweetie, ICA, London, UK.
– Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA.
– DOUBLE, loop-raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin, Germany.

1997 – Digitalin, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany

GROUP SHOWS
2021 –BIG!, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
–Meta Modell, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin

2020 –STUDIO BERLIN, organized by Boros Foundation, Berghain berlin, Germany
–Freitod, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, Germany
–Local Talent, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Germany
–Black Album/White Cube. A Journey Into Art and Music, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
–ROHKUNSTBAU XXV.’Zärtlichkeit/Tenderness’, Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose Spreewald, Germany
–Wolken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Oldenburg, Germany

2019 –Rehang, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
–Hyper! A journey into art and music, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
–I don’t Believe in Art, I believe in Artists, LX, New York, US

2018 –Ich bin ein Riss, ich will durch Wände gehen, Sammlung Peters-Messer und Miettinen Collection, SAlon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
–Painting after painting after painting after: Image-making in contemporary Germany, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US
–5 x Berlin, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China.

2017 – Von Pablo Picasso bis Robert Rauschenberg, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
– Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
– Ich bin nicht meine Zielgruppe, Kusnthaus Dresden, Germany
– Menatles Gelb, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

2016 – Elective Affinities, Latvian National Musueum of Art, Riga, Latvia
– Excitement, An exhibition from Rudi Fuchs, Stefelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

2015 – Wo ist Hier? #2, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany
– After Picasso, Wexner Center of Arts, Ohio.

2014 – Epicentre: conversations and discussions between artists, Parra & Romero, Ibiza.

2013 – Neon – Vom Leuchten der Farbe, Museum for Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, GR
– Geist und form, Grunwald Gallery of Art, The University of Indiana in Bloomington, USA
– A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
– THINGS FROM BEFORE / BESIDE / THINGS FROM AFTER / AROUND / THINGS OF THE MOMENT, Inaugural exhibition,
Parra & Romero | Ibiza, Spain
– BubeDameKönigAss (Martin Eder, Michael Kunze, Anselm Reyle, Thomas Scheibitz), Neu Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Germany.
– Geis Unt Form, Grunwald Gallery of Art, The University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA.
– Silent, Thomas Demand, Robert Elfgen, Thomas Sceibitz, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
– Why Painting Now?, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria.

2012 – The collection. German art from Kiefer to Henning, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Hol.

2011 – Halleluhwah! Hommage à CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
– Halleluhwah! Hommage à CAN, ABTART, Stuttgart, Germany.
– Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany.
– ABSTRAKT //// SKULPTUR, Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany.
– Abstract confusion, b05 – Kunst – und Kulturzentrum Monabaur, Germany.
– Surveyor, Albright, Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA.
– I promise to love you, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam. Holland.
– Wahrverwandschaften III, Neues Museum Weimar, Germany.

2010 –Neugierig, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, Germany.
– Portfolio Berlin 1, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
– If not in this period of time, Contemporary German Painting, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil.
– Multiple Pleasures, Functional Objects in Contemporary Art,Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
– Das neue Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany.
– High Ideal, Crazy DreamsGalerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany.
– Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten, Bel Etage, Berlin, Germany.
– Neugierig (Vito Acconci, Peter Fischli,David Weiss, Thomas Scheibitz),Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Bonn, Germany.

2009 – Geoplay II, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.
– Schickeria-High Society, BDA-Ausstellungsraum, Braunschweig, Germany.
– Gipfeltreffen der Moderne. Das Kunstmuseum WinterthurBundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany.
– Die Gegenwart der Linie. Eine Bestandsauswahl neuerer Erwerbungen des 20. und 21., Jahrhunderts Pinakothek der
Moderne, Munich, Germany.
– Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein Gallery , New York, USA.
– Invisible Cities, Jerwood Space, London, UK.

2008 – WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
– ICA Auction Exhibition, London, UK.
– Constellations, Artissima, Turin, Italy.
– The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany.
– Project Space 176, London, UK.
– Out of Storage 1 – Peintures de la Collection, MUDAM – Musée d’Art.
– Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.
– Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, Germany.
– Supernatural, Kunsthalle Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain.

2007 – Less is more – more could be Less, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
– Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
– Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, USA.
– I can only see things when I move. Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst auf Papier,Staatliche.Kunstsammlungen,
Dresden, Germany.
– re-dis-play, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany.
– Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus, München, Germany.
– transgression / excess, space-other, Boston, USA.
– Return to form, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland.
– Wonderwall – Constructing the Sublime, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
– 10 Jahre Skulpturenpark Sammlung Stoffel, Köln, Germany.
– Rockers Island. Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
– Wahlverwandschaften, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany.
– Imagination becomes Reality, Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
– The Artist’s Dining Room, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK.

2006 – Von Richter bis Scheibitz: Deutsche Arbeiten auf Papier seit 1960 aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur,
Germany.
– Site 9/1, Site Magazine/Haus am Meer Production, Düsseldorf, Germany.
– Radar: Selections from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, USA.
– Construction New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, USA.
– Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Centro d’Art Contemporanea, Codroipo,
Italy.

2005 – 36 x 27 x 10, White Cube Berlin, Germany.
– The Addiction, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin.
– Greater than the Sum: Selections from the Craig Robins Collection of Contemporary Art, University.Gallery,
University of Florida, Gainsville, USA.
– Configured, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
– Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
– Aspects of the Olbricht Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.
– Bilanz in zwei Akten, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.
– Expanded Paint Tools, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany.
– Split, The Approach, London, UK.
– The Triumph of Painting: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
– An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
– Desenhos: A – Z (Drawings A – Z), Coleccao Maderia Corporate Services, Funchal, Ilha da Maderia.

2004 – Biennale Saõ Paulo, Brazil.
– The stars are so big, the earth is so small… stay as you are (part I), Galerie Schipper und Krome, Berlin,Germany.
– Estrangement proche / Seltsam Vertraut, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany.
– Art contemporain, de 1960 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.

2003 – Supernova, Art of the 1990´s, Logan Collection, SFMOMA San Francisco, USA.
– Silver Convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany.
– Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA.
– Berlin-Moskau, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany.
– 4ever Young, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
– Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.
– Pittura/Painting: Von Rauschenberg bis Murakami, Museo Correr, Biennale Venedig, Italy.
– Matisse and Beyond: A Century of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA.
– Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA.
– Architecture Schmarchitecture, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
– Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany.
Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany.

2002 – Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.
– German Expressions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA.
– Pazifik – Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany.
– Five Years, Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris, France.
– Neuerwerbungen, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
– Artist Imagine Architecture, ICA, Boston, USA.
– Sounds, G7, Berlin, Germany.

2001 – New works on paper, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irland.
– Premio Regione Piemonte, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo Per L’ Arte, Turin, Italy.
– Das Gute Leben, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany.
– Preview, Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, USA.
– Berlin – London 01, ICA, London, UK.
– Musterkarte – Modelos de Pintura en Alemania, Goethe Institut, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid ,Spain.
– Elba Benítez Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
– F, Produzentengallerie Hamburg, Germany.
– Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Mineapolis, MN, USA.

2000 – Eberhard Havekost, Frank Nitsche, Thomas Scheibitz, White Cube 2, London, UK.
– Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
– 00 Drawings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA.
– Wahre Wunder, Sammler & Sammlungen im Rheinland.
– Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany.
– Collectors´ Choice, Exit Art, New York, USA.

1999 – In Augenhöhe, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany.
– Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, UCLA.
– Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA.
– Drawings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA.
1998 – Sehen sehen – berlin `98, loop, raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin, Germany.
– Neue darstellende Malerei, Kunstraum Hotel, Zürich, Switzerland.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2003 – Karl Schmidt-Rotluff Stipendium
1998 – Hegenbarth scholarship, project TYCOON-TOKIO.
1996 – Meisterschüler of Prof. Kerbach, HfBK Dresden.
1995 – Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, scholarship.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Winter Park, US
ACT Art Collection, Bremen, Germany
ArtPace Foundation, San Antonio.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Centre d’Arte de Contemporain, Geneva
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collezzzione Marotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Deutsche Bak Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Deutsche Telekom Collection, Bonn, Germany
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
Fine ARts Museums of San Francisco, US
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst – GfZK, Leipzig
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Grafische Sammlung), Chemnitz, Germany
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
The Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Murdeme collection, London, UK
Musee d\\\\\\\’Art Contemporain de Montreal
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Pinakothek der Modern, Glaspalast Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Sammlung Stoffel, Köln, Germany
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
St. Louis Art Museum
Tate Modern, London, UK
University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California