ABOUT
Thomas Völker is a multimedia artist and filmmaker.
Coming from an eclectic professional and artistic background his work ranges from painting, performance and installation to moving images and sound.
Much of Völker`s work is concerned with the phenomenon of voyeurism, human curiosity – often in its morbid manifestation – and issues of transgression beyond visible or physical boundaries.
Völker studied with Russell Mills, Jon Wozencroft and Neville Brody at the Royal College of Art in London where he organised and curated the Viewing / Listening Space – a regular event that is dedicated to showcasing the work of experimental filmmakers and sound artists – which has become a permanent forum, a time and place for discussion and analysis.
Völker lived and worked in Berlin until 2017.
He now lives in the United Kingdom.
SELECTED WORKS AND EXHIBITIONS:
2022
THE FRY ART GALLERY (Short Film)
2020
BARNETT FREEDMAN: DESIGNS FOR MODERN BRITAIN (Short Film)
(Pallant House Gallery, Chichester)
2019
COMING OUT OF THE BLACK COUNTRY (Documentary)
(Work-in progress)
AN OUTBREAK OF TALENT (Documentary)
(Work-in progress)
ONE DOUBLE ONE
in collaboration with Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand,
A. C. Embassy Art Museum (Beijing), 17 – 24 May,
Guangzhou International Art Fair (Beijing), 20 -27 June
2016
RONALD CORP – A SHORT PORTRAIT (Film)
Premiere at Royal Festival Hall London, 7 March
2015
TRESPASS
In collaboration with Shobana Jeyasingh and King`s College London,
Filmed at King`s College, June 2015
SINAPSI – The Painter Daniele Bordoni (Film)
Premiere at CORPO 6 Galerie, Berlin
2014
Walking The Line (Video)
Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento 2014
Buenos Aires (Argentina), 20 – 30 November
One Double One (Video)
in collaboration with Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand,
Joburg Art Fringe (Johannesburg), 20 August
No More History (Video Installation)
in collaboration with Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand,
Joburg Art Fringe (Johannesburg), 19 August
Walking The Line (Video)
Das Andere Wo – Künstlerische Visionen der Ferne
OFF-Raum (Wien), 26 – 29 June
Marcelle Hanselaar: Postcard from the Edge (Video)
55 limited Kupferdruck & Galerie (Berlin), May
2013
No More History (Video Installation)
in collaboration with Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand,
Josh Lilley Gallery London, 6th September – 4th October
A Conversation with Russell Mills (Video)
A portrait of the multi-media artist who`s known for his Cover Art for Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Michael Nyman, Peter Gabriel and The Nine Inch Nails
Marcelle Hanselaar: Postcard from the Edge (Video)
A portrait of the London-based Dutch painter
No More History (Video Installation)
A collaborative project with artist Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand, Generation V, Josh Lilley Gallery London
2012
One Double One (Video)
In collaboration with artist Carla Busuttil and The Static Hand
Film and Video Works 2008-2012
NOMADICS, Gallery Tristesse, Berlin
2011
BERLIN – THE ABANDONED PLACES (Photography)
in collaboration with Mathias Roesner, Kudamm 101 Design Happening, Berlin
TRANSFIGURED NIGHT (Moving Image)
featuring Arensky Chamber Orchestra, Cadogan Hall, London
PLAYING WITH FIRE (Moving Image)
National Theatre, London
WHAT MAKES A MAN START FIRES? (Installation)
*nominated for the Terence Conran Award, RCA Show 2011, London
CHOKE (Moving Image)
10 Gales Prize, 10 Gales Gallery, London
2010
WALKING THE LINE (Moving Image)
Barbican Centre, London
At The Places of Accident (Painting)
WIP Show, Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London
2009
Uphill, Downhill and Across (Moving Image)
Viewing Space, RCA, London
4 ACOUSTIC IMAGES (Moving Image)
Hockney Gallery, RCA, London