Thomas Kellner

Lives and works in Siegen, Germany. He studied art, sociology, politics, and economics. He was a visiting professor of art photography at the University of Giessen. He works with experimental and conceptual photography, pinhole series, photograms, and prints in alternative techniques, cyanotype, saltpaper, etc. He seeks to find a strong visual language combined with layers of content.
Since 1997, he has worked on European monuments, using the contact method, “deconstructing architecture as a visual language.” The buildings seem to crumble, dancing, and remind us of the vulnerability of our values ​​and creations.

He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in many countries and has works in several collections, such as the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Siegen, Schuppmann, Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, New York, Singapore; George Eastman House, Rochester, USA; Haverford Collection, Haverford (Philadelphia-USA); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston-USA; Museum of Photography (Burghausen-Germany); Museum of Modern Art-MAM and Museum of Art of Rio-MAR (Rio de Janeiro-Brazil); Museum of History of New Mexico, Santa Fe (New Mexico-USA); Art Institute of Chicago (USA); Boston Athenaeum (USA); Dayton Institute of Art (Ohio-USA); Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Artcollection, Cologne (Germany); Worcester Museum (Massachusetts-USA). His works are also in private collections in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, USA, etc., in addition to numerous books and catalogs in many different countries.