Tobias Zielony

Tobias Zielony, born in Wuppertal (DE) in 1973, lives and works in Berlin. He studied documentary photography at the University of Wales and art photography at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. In his accurately observed portraits, he deals with the "casual forms of the social scene", and the way young people stage and present themselves in public space.

Solo exhibitions
2014 Dream Lovers. The films 2008–2014, KOW, Berlin. Vele, Esker Foundation, Calgary (CA). Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim (DE). 2013 Jenny Jenny, Berlinische Galerie. 2012 Manitoba, KOW, Berlin. Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages, MAXXI–the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome. 2011 Le Vele di Scampia, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU). Manitoba, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Camera Austria, Graz (AT).

Group exhibitions
2015 German Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (IT). 2014 High Performance, ZKM Karlsruhe (DE). Der Stachel des Skorpions, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (DE); Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (DE). Lichtwark revisited. Künstler sehen Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE). 2013 Fremd & Eigen, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT). Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle, Vienna. Concrete - Fotografie und Architektur, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH). 2012 One on One, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Junge Menschen, Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Publications
Tobias Zielony: Jenny Jenny, exh.cat. Berlinische Galerie, Spector Books, Leipzig 2013.
Tobias Zielony: Manitoba, Spector Books, Leipzig 2011.
Maik Schlüter, Florian Waldvogel, Jan Wenzel (eds.), Tobias Zielony: Story / No Story, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010.

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