Thomas Jocher
born 1961 in Saalfelden, Austria.
1981 - 86
Studied painting at the Academie of fine arts in Vienna.
1986 - 88
lived in Madrid, Spain.
1987
Post graduate workshops Talleres de Arte Actual with Nacho Criado, Mitsuo Miura Und Juan Navarro Baldeweg at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
Co-founded Zú an artistsgroup with Michael Haas ,Antonio Fernandez and Antonio Murado in Lugo, Spain. The group developed interdisciplinary and selfreferencial statements to deconstruction of the myth of the artist . The group also organized a two years exchange program of shows between young spanish and austrian artists in their own exhibition space
1993
Co-founded Fehler Fallen Kunst with writer Sabine Scholl in Vienna, developing cross-over projects between experimental literature and visual art, which set out to study the deconstruction of identity.
1996 - 2001
lived in Chicago and New York, U.S.A.
lives and works in Berlin since 2001.
beside painting TJ also participated from 2007 to 2008 in the music project POP MODEL as trumpet player and is since 2009 member of the band AFTERMARS
Grants
1986
Postgraduate grant , Madrid.
1995
Grant of the Austrian state for fine arts.
1996-97
Grant of the Austrian ministry of culture for the Austrian Studio in Chicago.
2000-01
Grant for the I.S.P( International Studio Program) in New York, sponsored by Art section of the Austrian Governement .
Awards
1997
RBB BanK AG fine Art Award, Graz, Austria
2007
Purchase Price at the XXIX Salón de Otoño de Pintura de Plasencia, Spain.
Exhibitions
2010
Malerei, Prozess und Expansion von den 1950er Jahren bis heute, group-exhibition at MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
better here than not at all, solo-exhibition at my neighbour, Berlin
Country–Paintings, solo-exhibition at Galeria Metta, Madrid
Casting, groupshow at Visite ma tente, Berlin
2009
Unshaven Reality, solo-exhibition at Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin
Ciertos Lugares Buenos Country Paintings, solo-exhibition at Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
2008
The Joy of Painting, group-exhibition at Gmür, Berlin
2007
Devolver a lo Desnudo su Vello - Unshaven Realities, solo-exhibition at Galeria Metta, Madrid
2006
Schöne Bilder, group-exhibition at Gmür, Berlin
2005
happily ever after, group-exhibition at Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2004
The Joy of Painting, solo-exhibition at Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela
2003
Art Cuts, group-exhibition at Palais Harrach, Vienna
Figuraciones Suyas, group-exhibition at GaleriaTrinta, Santiago de Compostela
2002
Cold Cuts, solo-exhibion at Nexus, Kunsthalle-Saalfelden, Austria.
Choose Your Partner...An International Drawing Show, group-exhition at Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, München.
2001
Pittura Austriae, group-exhibition at Kunstforum Rathaus, Hallein, Austria.(catalogue)
2000
Pittura Austriae, group-exhibition at Galerie Thoman,Innsbruck, Austria.(catalogue)
1998
Positions of Austrian contemporary Art, group-exhibition at the Cultureel Centrum Knokke-Heist, Belgium. (catalogue)
Two-men show with Antonio Murado at the Galeria "Por amor ao arte", Porto, Portugal
1997
Out of the Shadow of Ivan Albright: Twelve Contemporary Chicago Artists, group-exhibition at the Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago.
a box is a box is a box, group-exhibition at the Sargfabrik, Vienna.
1996
Solo-exhibition at the Gallery A4, Wels.
Coming Up, Junge Kunst aus Österreich, group-exhibition at the Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna (catalogue).
No-Names with Sabine Scholl, installation with slide projection at Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart.
Presentation of Drips, Criptyle-font and O Die Lust! at Markus Grob's studio, Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart.
Solo-exhibition at the Gallery Claus und Elisabeth Thoman, Innsbruck.
1995
Solo-exhibition at the Galeria Ad Hoc, Vigo, Spain.
Körpernah, group-exhibition at the Gallery AK, Frankfurt.
E- vent, group-exhibition under the railwaybridge Südtirolerplatz, Vienna.
Wiener wald, group-exhibition at Kicks & Bricks, Wien (magazine)
1994
Solo-exhibition at the Gallery 5020, Salzburg, (catalogue).
Körpernah, group-exhibition at the Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna, (catalogue).
1,2,3..50, group-exhibition at the old Casino of Salzburg, (catalogue).
Sampled alreadymades by Christoph Steinbrener, group-exhibition at the Echoraum, Vienna.
Winterschlußverkauf at the Gallery 5020, Salzburg.
1993
Malerei 2000, group-exhibition in Vienna.
No-Names with Sabine Scholl, installation at the Theseustempel, Volksgarten, Vienna, (Book).
Solo-exhibition at the Gallery Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna.
1992
Solo-exhibition at the Galeria XXI, Madrid.
Zeitschnitt 92' group-exhibition at the Messepalast Vienna, (catalogue).
Wortlust at O.K., Linz, group-exhibition together with Sabine Scholl.
1991
Solo-exhibition at the Gallery Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, (Folder).
1990
Solo-exhibition at the Raum 1/9, Vienna.
DREIST, group-exhibition at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, (Calender).
1988
Prototipos and Große Prototypenschau, in cooperation with the group Zú at the Gallery Zú, Lugo and at the Gallery Cult,Vienna.
Devolver a los Desnudos su Vello, solo-exhibition at the Galeria Zú, Lugo.
1987
Mis Cuadros Favoritos, in cooperation with the group Zú, Galeria Zú, Lugo.
1986
Solo-exhibition at the Trakl-Haus, Salzburg.
Publications
2007
Miguel Copón: Lo que son las Cosas in Catalogue to the exhibition "Devolver a lo Desnudo su Vello - Unshaven Realities", Galeria Metta.
1996
Rainer Fuchs: Thomas Jocher in "Coming Up" catalogue to the exhibition at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig; edition Triton , Vienna.
1995
Christian Kravagna: Encarnado y encarnacíon (Texts in Spanish and Englisch) in thomas Jocher, folder, Gallery Ad Hoc, Vigo.
Thomas Jocher: Knack , "Wienerwald" Magazine, Kicks&Bricks.
Thomas Jocher: Der Körper durch die Haut - Der Inhalt durch die Farbe "Körpernah" catalogue Gallery Krinzinger.
1994
Christian Kravagna: Thomas Jocher at the Gallery 5020, Kunst-Bulletin June.
Rainer Fuchs: Das Möbel steht davor und das Bild hängt darüber. Sabine Scholl: Horizont, soweit man sehen kann. Christian Kravagna : Hard Core Body Relics in thomas Jocher, catalogue Gallery 5020.
1993
No-Names, Anagramms with Sabine Scholl Fehler Fallen Kunst.
1992
Christian Kravagna: Inkarnat and Inkarnation in "Differenzen, Affinitäten und Brüche " catalogue to Zeitschnitt92'.
1991
Sabine Scholl: im nu , folder, private edition
1990
Guntram Hazod: Dreist, calender with A. Dworak and B. Tragut, private edition.