Biography

Thomas Wunsch started working in the field of photography at age 17, when he moved to the USA and became a member of the Kodak Young Photographers League. When he opened a photo studio in Hamburg he devoted himself to fashion, still life and portrait photography (he took pictures of Barbra Streisand, Sir George Solti, Frank Zappa, Yoko Ono, Ethan Hawke, Meg Ryan, Christo, Juergen Teller, Dalai Lama, Jeff Koons, Debra Winger, Adrien Brody, Anton Corbijn, Willem Dafoe, Martin Parr, Wim Wenders, Annie Leibovitz, Nastassja Kinski, Sting, Ai Weiwei, Harvey Keitel, Fanny Ardant, Daniel Barenboim and many other international celebrities). He also had his first two solo exhibitions in Hamburg at Galerie Palme. After he moved to the USA again, Thomas Wunsch was working as a still photographer at a movie production company for many years. Thomas Wunsch started taking abstract photographs in the year 2000. These photographs were exhibited at the Huantie Times Art Museum in Beijing, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Overbeck Museum in Bremen, the Staedtisches Museum Schloss Bruchsal, the Okgwa Museum in Gokseong, the Huaxia Art Museum in Zhengzhou, the Museum im Wehener Schloss, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Goethe-Institut in Frankfurt, the Goethe-Institut in Freiburg and numerous galleries throughout the world. Thomas Wunsch took part in group exhibitions also showing the works of Ai Weiwei, Robert Indiana, Thomas Ruff and Nam June Paik. His photographs are published by the renowned German record company ECM as LP and CD covers as well. Thomas Wunsch is curating photography exhibitions in Germany and he has been teaching “Creative Photography” at the Anglo-American University in Prague. He has also held lectures about photography in Germany, USA, China and South Korea and he is a jury member at the "Moscow International Photo Awards" and the "London International Creative Competition". More than 30 books featuring his photographs have been published, including his most recent ones "Enemies of Reason", "The Impertinence of Beauty" and "Wages of Sin".

Exhibitions (selected)

2010

Galerie Henker, Obertshausen

Frankfurter Kunst Block

Galerie Stieglitz 19, Antwerp

Galerie Unterfahrt, Munich

Galerie RP, Darmstadt

Galerie Robert Meyer Zeigt, Frankfurt

Galerie De Roma, Antwerp

2011

Galerie Rathaus, Hanau

Galleria Immaginaria, Florence

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Galleria Santa Maria della Misericordia, Perugia

Mauritiusgalerie, Wiesbaden

Galerie Fototreppe 42, Hanau

2012 

Galleria Immaginaria, Berlin

Galerie Schiller, Heidelberg

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Atelierhaus, Darmstadt

Haus der Kunst, Munich

Huaxia Art Museum, Zhengzhou

2013 

Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

Kunstmesse Art Karlsruhe

Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing

ARA Art Center, Seoul

Galerie Edition Camos, Munich

Kunstverein Montez, Nuremberg

Galleria Immaginaria, Florence

La Plantation Arts Center, Beijing

Kunstverein, Baden-Baden

2014

Kunstwerk, Cologne

360 Minutes Art, Wiesbaden

Okgwa Museum, Gokseong

Art Fair Kurfuersten Carré, Heidelberg

360 Minutes Art, Seoul

Art 8 Gallery, Wiesbaden

Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Galerie Edition Camos, Munich

Project Space, Sonnenberg

Soho Factory, Warsaw

Seohak Art Space, Jeonju

Galerie Projekt 48, Wiesbaden

Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul

Galerie Schiller, Heidelberg

2015

Galerie im Zeltnerschloss, Nuremberg

With Art Fair 1, Seoul

Overbeck Museum, Bremen

Art Blue Gallery, Yeosu

Galerie Neozoon, Wiesbaden

Galerie Rasch, Kassel

Seohak Art Space, Jeonju

Photo.Kunst.Raum., Hamburg

Gallery B90, Gdansk

Kunst Messe Frankfurt 15

CBNU Gallery, Jeonju

Museum im Wehener Schloss, Taunusstein

Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden

Fotogalerie, Potsdam

With Art Fair 2, Seoul

Galerie Bildfläche, Eichstaett

Galerie Edition Camos, Munich

Galleria Immaginaria, Florence

Art Hamptons, New York

2016

Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt

Galerie Schiller, Heidelberg

Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York

Kunstmesse Art Karlsruhe

Centro Cultural Los Galpones, Caracas

Forum Merzhausen, Freiburg

Exhibition Hall, Shanghai

AS Galerie, Wiesbaden

Gallery Globe, Prague

Galerie Huelsemann, Heidelberg

Teatr Polski, Bydgoszcz

Gallery Galaxy Gingakei, Tokyo

Goethe-Institut, Frankfurt

2017   

Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg

Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden

Kunstverein, Offenbach

Kunstverein, Landau

Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg

Palais Walderdorff, Trier

Galerie Bender, Munich

Galerie Linse, Wiesbaden

Gallery Pati Llimona, Barcelona

Lost Art Festival, Berlin

Kunstmesse Art Karlsruhe

Gallery Contact, Toronto

Galerie Rasch, Kassel

Hassan Law Gallery, London

Galerie Schiller, Heidelberg

Goethe-Institut, Freiburg

Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York

Galerie Kunstwerden, Essen

2018   

Egbert Baqué Contemporary, Berlin

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Internationale Photoszene, Cologne

Städtisches Museum, Schloss Bruchsal

AAU Gallery, Prague

Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York

Kunst- und Kulturstiftung, Ruesselsheim

Galerie Petersburger, Cologne

Raumgalerie, Stuttgart

Prince House Gallery, Mannheim

Kunstverein, Ingolstadt

Galerie Fabrik 45, Bonn

Alpine Mansion Gallery, Alpine

Gerichtshoefe, Berlin

Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden

Galerie Schiller, Heidelberg

2019   

Contemporary Art Center, Rochester

Galerie Rebell, Offenbach

Granada Gallery, Buenos Aires

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

Photo.Kunst.Raum., Hamburg

Galerie Uhn, Königstein

Galerie Fotografic, Prague

Kunstverein, Ebersberg

2020   

Museum Boppard

Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Biennale fuer aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim

Galerie Bildflaeche, Eichstaett

Cultural Center, Vilkaviskis

Kunstverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden

Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt

Galerie Litvai, Landshut

Enter Art Foundation, Berlin

Augsburg Contemporary, Augsburg

Gallery 040, Hamburg

Nichtmuseum zeitgemaesser Kunst, Dresden

Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

Contemporary Art Center, Rochester

Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt

Vilkamirge Gallery, Ukmerge

2021

Kunstverein Neue Galerie, Landshut

RAY Triennial of Photographic Arts, Frankfurt

Gallery 040, Hamburg

Galleria Immaginaria, Florence

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Ateliers im Delta, Mannheim

Kunstwochenende, Landshut

Augsburg Contemporary, Augsburg

Positions Art Fair, Berlin

Galerie B.K.I., Frankfurt

Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York

Kunstraum, Bad Honnef

Galerie Litvai, Landshut

Incorporating Art Fair, Hamburg

Kunstraumno. 10, Moenchengladbach

Contemporary Art Center, Rochester

Kunstsäule, Frankfurt

2022   

Galerie Gallus, Frankfurt

Contemporary Art Center, Rochester

Galerie A, St. Étienne

Museum Haus der Fotografie, Burghausen

Discovery Art Fair, Cologne

Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Koblenz

Galerie Zweigstelle Berlin

Galerie Ateliers im Delta, Mannheim

Château de Beaulieu, Riorges

Forum für Kunst und Kultur, Herzogenrath

Galerie Speicher, Gramzow

Gallery 040, Hamburg

Overhead Gallery, Münster

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York

Galerie Abstract Project, Paris

2023   

Emde Gallery, Mainz

WFK Galerie, Wiesbaden

Contemporary Art Center, Rochester

Zweigstelle, Berlin

Galerie Nero, Wiesbaden

Galerie Grossmann & Berger, Kampen

Augsburg Contemporary, Augsburg

Galerie Uhn, Koenigstein

Goethe-Institut, Phnom Penh

Galerie Augenblick, Wiesbaden

Galerie SmithArt, Weisenau

Baumert Contemporary, Hamburg

Collections

Kulturamt Rüsselsheim

Okgwa Museum, Gokseong

Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing

Ai Weiwei

City of Wiesbaden

Dr. Zhou Zhao

Gao Brothers

Frankfurter Kunstverein

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Overbeck Museum

Nassauischer Kunstverein NKV

Huaxia Art Museum, Zhengzhou

Enter Art Foundation

Artist-In-Residence scholarships

Huantie Times Art Museum, Beijing, 2013

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2014

University Teaching Position

"Creative Photography" at the Anglo-American University AAU, Prague, 2018



Photographs by Thomas Wunsch were published by

ECM Records

Hathut Records

Challenge Records

Not Two Records

Okkadisc

Sunhill Records

Jazz4Ever Records

Schuler Records

Relative Pitch Records

Double Moon Records

Golton Records

Normal Records

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

DU Magazin

Tango

Theater Heute

Szene Hamburg