1964 born in Munich, lives and works in Berlin.

Known for his immaculate photographs of environments elaborately constructed out of cardboard and paper, Thomas Demand draws on source material from historical, political and media images. The resultant work divests the photographic images of obvious referents, reducing the real to a generic form and leaving in its path a certain tension between the uneasy, institutional blankness of each photograph and the loaded cultural background that often informs it. Highly stylised and subversive, Demand's photographs eerily evoke a sterilised existence, and enable an elision of boundaries between the imagined and the real.