Constantin Thun
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Biography
Constantin Thun’s work is derived from found materials, objects, spaces, and architectures, situated anew in compositions and contexts without assigned narrative or reference.
Thun has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2024. His work has also been exhibited at The Modern Institute, the Hessel Museum of Art, the haubrok foundation, and the Point Centre for Contemporary Art, amongst others.
Selected Texts
Exhibitions
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
| 2026 | The Modern Institute, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| 25PES, Glasgow, United Kingdom | |
| 2024 | Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| Your Presence Is a Present, curated by Daré Dada, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States | |
| 2021 | Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy |
| 2020 | Cabin, [5.2.2020 – 29.2.2020], Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| Cabin, [11.1.2020 – 1.2.2020], Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2018 | Youth Club, London, United Kingdom |
| 2017 | You think it will never happen to you…, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy (ongoing) |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2026 | Biennale Gherdëina 10: (Future) Paradise Gardens, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Pilat, Italy |
| 2025 | Don't worry, what happens happens mostly without you, madame leniou, Athens, Greece |
| 2024 | Jahresgaben 2024, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany |
| Summer Group Show, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy | |
| The hill is getting lower. Or so it seems., Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2022 | Before I met you the world seemed like such a big place… now there is only this shop, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany |
| 2021 | I, haubrok foundation, Berlin, Germany |
| Club GAMeC Prize Nominees, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy | |
| 2020 | Intermezzo Strumentale, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy |
| Icon Maintenance, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| ‘neue zonen’, Galeriea Galerie:A, Bern, Switzerland | |
| Cabin, [4.3.2020 – 4.4.2020], Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2019 | Vendi Napoli e poi muori, curated by Lorenzo Xiques, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy |
| Cecilia, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2018 | Hidden Bar, curated by Hannah Weinberger, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| Verlörung, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Art Berlin, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2017 | Pink Moon Pink Wind, Mavra, Paros, Greece |
| 2016 | Completely Something Else, curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Taylor Macklin at Paris Internationale, Paris, France | |
| In One’s Own Time, Emalin, Naples, Italy | |
| 2015 | G.I.F.T., Der TANK, curated by Chus Martínez, Basel, Switzerland |
| Pane Per Poveri, Venice, Italy | |
| Europe, Europe, curated by Arthur Fink, Fabian Marti, Oskar Weiss (HA-CIE-ND-A Zurich), Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway | |
| A Weekend Show, curated by Arthur Fink, Fabian Marti, Oskar Weiss (HA-CIE-ND-A Zurich), 1857, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2011 | Housewarming, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich, Scott Cameron Weaver, Hannah Weinberger, Elaine, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland |
Residencies, Grants and Awards
| 2021 | Nominee, Club GAMeC Prize, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy |
| Residency, Studio Fabio Mauri, co-hosted by Hauser & Wirth, Rome, Italy |
Publications and Texts
| 2022 | Arbeiten & Wohnen, contributor, with Baugenossenschaft Maler und Bildhauer Zürich |
| 2021 | Fontanel,, artist book, saxpublishers, Vienna, Austria |
| 2020 | Untitled tools (Cabinet), Kaput Magazine, October 8 |
| 2017 | In One’s Own Time, exhibition catalogue, edited by Emalin, London, United Kingdom |
| Completely Something Else (with Maria Loboda), artist book, ed. | |
| 2016 | Mémoire Universelle, contributor, with untitled (ampoule of San Gennaro’s blood, MOMO, for Peter) et al., Brussels |
| 2014 | Mémoire Universelle, contributor, with untitled (birds), Brussels, Belgium |
| 2013 | Monument, published by Emalin, London, United Kingdom |