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