Bjoern Thomas

Bjoern Thomas, born 1971 in Cologne, Germany. His work has been presented already in MIAMI, BASEL, NEW YORK or during the SHANGHAI Art Fair. The BLOODY SUPPER picture is shown at the SAATCHI MUSEUM in London on the top floor screen or has been sold to major collectors like the famous Pritzker family in Los Angeles or the unique Jan Eric Löwenadler collection in Sweden. Bjoern Thomas creates stimulating environments of people from all walks of life, presenting situations both real and fantastical in order to explore the complexities of human experience through an artistic and honest lens. He stylizes people in staged environments in order to theatrically combine fact with fiction, real people within symbolic and illuminated environments. Through his combination of reality with imagination, his subjects ranging from distant cultures in faraway lands to incarcerated gangsters and crime families become more than documentations of people in unfamiliar lived environments but become cinematic, adding a theoretical layer to his aesthetic portraits that triggers investigations into the alluded symbolic imagery. Bjoern Thomas uses photography to discover foreign elements prevalent in our society, exploring uncanny sub-cultures one does not p...

SCOPE NY 2015, SCOPE BASEL 2014, SHANGHAI Art Fair 2013