Thomas Grünfeld was born in 1956 in Leverkusen, Germany. He currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Thomas Grünfeld solo exhibitions include: 1&5, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany (2015); Homey, Opere 1986 - 2013, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea - Villa Croce, Genova, Italy (2014); Thomas Grünfeld- Homey: works from 1981 to 2013, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2013). Group exhibitions include, among others: Dead Animals, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA (2016); Still Life Remix, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Antinori Art Project, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Florence, Italy (2015); Curiosity: Art & The Pleasures of Knowing, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland/ de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); Two Collectors: Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2013); Tier-Perspektiven, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2009). OUTLOOK, curated by Christos Joachimides, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2003) The Big Bang, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA (2000). Since 2004 Thomas Grünfeld holds a professorship for sculpture at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.
