”Simplicity it the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Since 1991 Thomas Michel takes part in solo exhibitions and group projects at home and abroad in the fields of painting, hydrography and design. Since 1994 he is working as freelance artist and designer for international brands. From 1988 to 1993 he studied Industrial Design at FH München, finishing with the diploma. Parallel to that he pursued an autodidactic study of painting by artistical conviction in a period, when concept art was pushed at the academies and painting was looked down on. Fine art and design aren’t a contradiction for him, but simply different languages of one and the same creative source: the will to form. In 1989 Thomas Michel discovered the technique of Hydrography, which he further developed since then continuously and visualized in the creation of large hydrographic series. Thomas Michel was born in 1966 in Darmstadt, he lives and works in Bamberg.
Solo exhibitions / Projects
- 2015 1000 years Michaelsberg Bamberg, virtual light installation
- 2015 Cranach Contemporary, TMCA Project Space
- 2011 Cyclus Cerealis, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
- 2010 Darwinland, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, IKMZ Cottbus
- 2009 Darwinland, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
- 2007 Awakening – negative pictures, Heinrichssaal Bamberg
- 2004 Damokles City, Galerie Löblein, Bamberg
- 2002 New paintings, Marschalk von Ostheimsches Haus, Bamberg
- 2000 Primary landscape, Marschalk von Ostheimsches Haus, Bamberg
- 1998 Premiere light show ”Pictures at an Exhibition“, Lichtspielkino Bamberg / Kunstverein Bamberg
- 1997 Miroirs, Galerie Mephistopheles, Bamberg
- 1997 ”From the Inner Topography”, Portrait young artists in Franconia, Fränkischer Tag
- 1997 Light show ”The Odyssey”, Galerie für Zeitkunst / Lichtspielkino Bamberg
- 1996 Peinture, Art’s Factory, Paris
- 1996 Light show premiere ”The Odyssey”, Kunstverein Bamberg
- 1995 New paintings, Galerie Potemkin, München
- 1994 The Haywain, Galerie am Stephansberg, Bamberg
Group exhibitions / Art fairs
- 2016 Coming and Going, Neues Rathaus Bayreuth, BBK Oberfranken
- 2012 Communication Berlin-Havanna, Projektraum Bethanien Berlin
- 2011 Communication Berlin-Havanna, Galeria Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havanna
- 2010 Art fair participation Short Art Projekte, Short Art Projekte, Berliner Kunstsalon
- 2010 Home, Galerie Artelier, Nürnberg
- 2010 Gallery Exchange, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar
- 2009 Art fair participation Short Art Projekte, Galerie Frenhofer, Berliner Liste
- 2009 Art fair participation Short Art Projekte, Galerie Frenhofer, Berliner Kunstsalon
- 2009 Crisp and Fresh, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
- 2008 Small Format, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
- 2003 The Smile of the Poets, Marschalk von Ostheimsches Haus, Bamberg
- 2000 Design Afoot: Athletic Shoes 1995-2000, SFMOMA, San Francisco
- 1998 The Importance of Being Earnest, Paintings and stage design, Studiobühne Bamberg
- 1998 Light show „Pictures at an Exhibition“, Arte Multivisione Rieti, Italy
- 1997 40 x 40, Galerie für Zeitkunst, Bamberg
- 1995 In the Meantime, Galerie für Zeitkunst, Bamberg
- 1995 Salon des Indépendants, Galerie Eisgrube, Bamberg
- 1993 Foreign, Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer, BBK Oberfranken
- 1992 Portrait – Figure, Stadtgalerie Villa Dessauer, BBK Oberfranken
- 1991 Upper Franconian artists, Giechburg, BBK Oberfranken

