Thomas Fuesser is a freelance photographer and designer whose acclaimed career in photography, design and advertising spans from his native Germany across all the continents to China, where he has made his home since 2005. Thomas is the recipient of The German Prize for Communication Design 2000 for excellence in design by Design Zentrum Essen, NRW, http://www.red-dot.de, and holds a degree from University of Essen in Communication and Design Sciences.
Services
Thomas stands for photography, design, production processing guided by digital CMYK color proofing. Clients ranging from major advertising agencies to photographers, architects, designers, museums and artists all rely on his expertise for their production needs.
Exhibitions
"Masters of Light - Cinematographers, their actors and directors", Portrait series commissioned by the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the European Film Academy Berlin / Germany and Wim Wenders.
"Please don't move". Portraits / 2000 / Supported by ZEIT-Culture Foundation, the Ministry for Cultural Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Exhibitions in Hamburg, Photokina Cologne 2002 and 2004 in Germany, 3rd International Arts Festival in Shanghai and Singapore by Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes Singapore.
"The Search of Meaning and the Pursuit of Happiness" 2005 invited and organized by The Jerusalem Foundation, Israel, initiated by Yissachar Ben Ya'acov and "Kunsthaus Hamburg". Exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany and in Jerusalem, Israel.
Curators: Nirith Nelson and Claus Mewes.
December 2006 invited by The 2. Lianzhou International Photo Festival, P.R.China. "Between the Observer and the Observed" - Solo exhibition: "Eyes of Life"
Curator: Lin Lu
"EURASIA ONE" in May 2007 at ISLAND6 Art Center Shanghai and in September 2007 at The German Center Pudong/Shanghai: Artists from Europe and Asia,
organized on the occasion of the German EU-Presidency and the visit of German Federal President Horst Koehler.
September 2007 invited by The Pingyao International Photo-Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi Province, P.R.China. Solo exhibition: "Borderlines"
Curator: Jean Loh (Beaugeste Photo Gallery, Shanghai).
"Lost of the Real" in February 2008 at Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum, Group Show: "Time. Place. Person." German & Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition.
Supported by Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany SH and Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum.
ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai and Beijing 2009. "Stolen treasures from modern China" A Group show with works from Zhou Tiehai, Andy Hall,
Chris Gill and Thomas Fuesser
Shanghai, Sept. 2009
http://www.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=2642
Beijing, Nov. 2009
http://www.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/exhibition.htm?exbId=2808
Information:
"Stolen treasures from modern China"
http://www.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/texts/id/1785
Awards:
"DECADES" - Award for high design quality / German Prize for Communication Design 2000, by the Design Center NRW/Germany. http://www.red-dot.de/
Lectures at International Universities:
Singapore in 2003 invited by Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes in cooperation with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Raffles University and Lasalle-SIA College of Art and the Design College of Temasek Polytechnic Singapore.
"Photography and Design" In 2005, 2008 and 2009 at the International School of Communication Design (ISCD) and Design Factory International
(DFI-Zhuhai), Dept. of Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, P.R. China.
