Thomas Seelig is Head of the Photographic Collection at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and has curated exhibitions on Marge Monko, Anastasia Mityukova, Aenne Biermann, 21.lettres.a.la.photographie@gmx.de, Timm Rautert, Tobias Zielony and IMAGE CAPITAL (Estelle Blaschke/Armin Linke), among others. He studied Visual Communication/Photography at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, followed by a curatorial study program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. From 2003 to 2018 he was curator/collection curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur (from 2013 to 2017 as its director), where he was involved in the development of the experimental exhibition format SITUATIONS. Curated exhibitions. Im Rausch der Dinge (2004), Forschen und Erfinden (2007), James Welling (2013), Onoroto/Krebs (2015), Jungjin Lee (2016), and The Hobbyist (2017).
The Jury
The submitted works were reviewed by the jury and selected for a group exhibition at the Photoszene Festival, which will take place from 12 May to 11 June 2023 in the rooms of the Michael Horbach Foundation.