Thomas Flechtner


BIOGRAPHY
Born 1961, Winterhur, Switzerland
Lives and works in Valliere, France and Zurich, Switzerland


EDUCATION
1983-1987 Ecole de Photographie, Vevey


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

2006
Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva

2005
"Silent Walk," Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan

2003
Kunstmuseum, Thun
Marianne Boesky, New York

2002
Museé des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Shine Gallery, London
Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva

2000
Coal Mine Fotogalerie, Winterthur
Galerie Renn, Paris
Centre Pasquart, Biel
Galerie Linder, Basel

1999
Centre de la Photogalarie, Geneve

1994
Nikon Galerie, Zurich

1992
Scalo, Zurich

1989
Galleria il diaframma, Milan
Art Junction, Nice
Galerie Junod, Lausanne


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"Renaissance," Ferragamo Gallery, New York
"True North," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
"Season's Greetings - Contemporary Photography," Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich

2007
"Les peintres de la vie moderne," Collection photographique de la Caisse des Dépôts, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2006
"L'invention du Paysage, oeuvres du FRAC Franche-Comte" Musée des
Beaux-Arts, Lons-Le-Saunier
"Der Berg," Kunsthaus, Zurich

2005
"Alpine Air, Swiss Artists Inspired by Mountains," The Aargauer
Kunsthaus, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo

2004
"Seeing Other People," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Interferences," Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
"Empty Garder 2," The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Interferences – Contemporary Swiss Photography," Arhus
Kunstbygning, Arhus
"Montagne, je te hais, Montagne, je t'adore, Ancien Pénitencier, Sion
"Weisse Wunderware Schnee," Büner Kunstmuseum, Chur
"Naturellement Abstrait, L'art contemporain suisse dans la Collection Julius Bär," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

2003
"Moving Pictures," Guggenheim, Bilbao

2002
"Der Berg," Heidelberger Kustverein, Heidelberg
"Mystic Mountains," Aosta

2001
"Analog/Dialog," Kunstmuseum Solothurn

1997
"Looking at India," Swiss Library, Bern
"The Gotthard Project," Galleria Gottardo, Lugano

1996
"The Eye of the Beholder," Swiss Institute, New York

1991
Decouverts, Paris
"Switzerland seen in another way," Fribourg

1989
Galerie Stockeregg, Zurich

1985
Triennale Internationale de la Photographie, Fribourg


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Brouillet, Marie-Pierre. "Thomas Flechtner," ELLE DÉCOR, September 2008, pp. 102-104
Bowles, Hamish. "Green Acres," Vogue, August, 2008, pg 210-1

2007
Wilson, Michael, "Thomas Flechtner," Artforum, October 2007, p. 374
Robinson, Walter, "Weekend Update," Artnet, July 9, 2007, http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson7-9-07.asp
"Thomas Flechtner," Flavorpill.com, Issue #369, July 3-9, 2007, http://nyc.flavorpill.net/121525
"Short List," The New Yorker, June 25, 2007, p. 24

2003
"Thomas Flechtner – London," Paris Photo, February/March 2003, No. 24
"Thomas Flechtner," The New Yorker, February 3, 2003
Macfarlane, Robert. "Shoot to Chill," The Telegraph, February 2, 2003
"Thomas Flechtner," Art Newspaper, January 2003, No. 132

2002
Dykstra, Jean. "Photo Book Beat," Art on Paper, May – June 2002,
pp. 94 – 95


AWARDS
2004
Photography Award Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

1993
Landis & Gyr Studio, London

1991
European Photography Award, Berlin (Selection)

1989
European Kodak, Arles
(First Prize Switzerland, Second Prize Europe)

1988, 1990, 1992
Swiss Grant for Arts

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Belgacom, Brussels
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Caisse des Dépôts et Consginations, Paris
Fonds Cantonal d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
FRAC Franche-Comté
Guggenheim Museum Collection, New York
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Sion


PUBLICATIONS
2007
Bloom, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Switzerland

2003
Spicegarden, ed. By City of Basel, Switzerland

2001
Snow, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Switzerland