Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to Galerie Barbara Thumm.
Artists
Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner (born 1966 in Merseyside, England), also known as The Vanity Press, is a British artist whose work spans sculpture, drawing, installation, film and text. Her practice demonstrates a long-standing fascination with fighter aircraft and their place in culture, particularly as presented on film. She first became known for her 'wordscapes' – written, frame-by-frame transcriptions of Hollywood war films such as Top Gun and Apocalypse Now. In 2009 she issued herself an ISBN and registered herself as a publication, The Vanity Press. Banner was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002, and in 2010 installed two decommissioned fighter jets, Harrier and Jaguar, in the Duveen Galleries of Tate Britain. Her work has been shown at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Hayward Gallery, London. In 2020 she was appointed Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems (born 20 April 1953 in Portland, Oregon) is an American artist working with photography, text, fabric, audio, digital images, film and installation. She rose to prominence in the early 1990s with The Kitchen Table Series, and over more than four decades has created a multifaceted body of work addressing race, gender, class, power and identity, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black women in America, often using her own figure as witness. Weems has exhibited at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Kunstmuseum Basel, Fondazione Prada and the LUMA Foundation. Her honours include a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Medal of Arts (2024), and her work is held by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and Tate Modern, among others. She lives and works in Syracuse, New York.