The retrospective of German artist Thomas Demand, on view at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), showcases nearly 70 works spanning his 30-year career. Curated by Douglas Fogle and co-organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, and TFAM, the exhibition highlights Demand's unique intersection of sculpture and photography.

Through meticulously crafted paper models and a careful photographic process, Demand's art blurs the line between documentary and recreation, examining the fragile nature of memory, perception, and historical truth. Demand's art evolved from creating paper and cardboard sculptures to using photography as a primary medium, re-constructing life-sized scenes based on mass media images.

Demand's works often reconstruct key historical or social moments and explore cultural notions of "nature" in pieces like Clearing (2003) and Grotte (2006). Later, in the Dailies series (2008), he focused on everyday moments, reflecting on how modern culture captures and shares the mundane. Additionally, he explored stop-motion animation in Pacific Sun (2012) and used architectural models in his Model Studies series to examine the construction of our visual world.

Kvadrat is proud to support the exhibition with 300 metres of Divina by Finn Sködt. 

Taipei Fine Arts Museum
No. 181, Section 3, Zhongshan N Rd, Zhongshan District,
Taipei, Taiwan 10491

18 January 2025 – 11 May 2025

Tuesday - Friday, 9.30am – 5.30pm
Saturday, 9.30am – 8.30pm
Sunday, 9.30am – 5.30pm

About Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand is one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation. His artwork has been featured in major exhibitions across the world. His solo exhibitions include shows at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2009), MUMOK, Vienna (2009), Sprüth Magers Gallery, London (2008), the Fondazione Prada, Venice (2007), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2006), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005), a retrospective at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2004), and he represented Germany at the 26th Sao Paulo Biennale (2004).

About Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM)

Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) was founded in 1983, as Taiwan’s first museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art, and the official art museum of the capital city. The mission of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum is to promote the preservation, research, development and popularization of Taiwanese modern and contemporary art; to keep abreast of global trends and establish a variety of channels for exchange; to raise the general public’s understanding of and participation in modern art; to help Taiwanese modern and contemporary art to thrive; and to cultivate fuller artistic attainment in the people, in the hope of forming a contemporary society with aesthetic sense and cultural perception.

https://www.tfam.museum