Thomas Locher

(Munderkingen, Germany, 1956)

He studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (1979-1985) and at the University of Stuttgart (1981-1985). His work consists of sober, consistently designed installations and small and large-format works in which fragments of text are displayed. It is based on a neo-conceptualism that extends to concerns such as syntax, image, meaning systems and their articulation with texts of different classifications, which cover psychoanalysis, communication, politics, jurisprudence and economics. To make explicit the ideological edifice correlative to them, he executes hand-written underlining, marginal annotations and comments that open new spaces of thought supplementary to the dogmatic text, establishing a counter-enlightened linguistic critique.
Thomas Locher has exhibited his work in museums and galleries around the world: Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (2018), Kunsthalle Vienna (2017), Secession Vienna (2013), MoMA (2006), Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2003), Museum of Modern Art in Saitama, Japan (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1992), Tate Gallery in Liverpool (1989), among others. Likewise, Locher's works are part of relevant public collections such as the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Vancouver Art Gallery, Grafische Sammlung Albertina, or the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.