TILO&TONI
based in Cologne, tiloundtoni@gmail.com
Instagram, Facebook, Metronom Gallery

Graphic design and programming:
Sophie Rentien Lando at Espace Ness

Education, Teaching, Workshops

2015 – 2017 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2010 – 2016 studies of Art at University Siegen, DE

2024 workshop visual realities, MADE Academia di Belle Arti, Sicily, IT
2023 – 2024 lectureship painting, University Siegen, DE
2022 workshop lens-based media, ArtEZ Arnhem, NL
2022 workshop photography, NABA Milan, IT
2022 lectureship mixed media, University Siegen, DE
2020 – 2022 lectureship photography, University Giessen, DE
2020 lectureship, University Paderborn, DE
2019 – 2020 lectureship painting, University Siegen, DE
2018 – 2019 lectureship photography, University Giessen, DE

Exhibitions

2022

Friendly Show, Condominio, Milan, IT
Wedding, Kamp-Lintfort, DE
The image as process, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Trevisto, IT

2021

HESSEN statt HASSEN, Villa Stuck, Munic, DE
Material Curing, Thames-Side Studios, London, GB
The Kitchen Happening, Düsseldorf, DE
LA Sunset – Ziemlich angenehmer Zustand, fotopub project space, Ljubljana, SI (solo)

2020

Download Upload, Zabriskie Point, Geneva, CH
düsseldorf photo+, Düsseldorf, DE
F4 un’idea di Fotografia 2020,Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Trevisto, IT
Nature in Play, Metronom Gallery, Modena, IT
Reclaim Award 2020, Cologne, DE
Photo Open Up, Padova, IT
étalage/2 commerce sentimental, Aachen, DE
Einmal alles – alles ein Mal, Goeben, Berlin, DE
Exhibition on Paper, I Never Read, Basel, CH

2019

Im Walde rauscht der Wasserfall, Metronom Gallery, Modena, IT (solo)
Exhibition on paper, VOLUMES, Kunsthalle Zürich, CH
Summer Collection, Somerset House, Photo London, GB
Tilo&Toni geraten in Schwierigkeiten, Gasthof Worringer Platz, Düsseldorf, DE (solo)
The Garden, The Koppel Project, London, GB
Malerei, Richard-Dörken Stiftung, Herdecke, DE
Exhibition on paper, Art Book Fair, Geneva, CH
Berlin Photo Week, Kraftwerk Berlin, DE
NAK 2019, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE

2018

NAK Benefit Auction, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
Im Walde rauscht der Wasserfall, Unseen 2018, Amsterdam, NL
Lust, selbst hinzufahren, Interfood Vitrine Aachen, DE
Tilo und Toni grüßen aus Lützellinden und Oberkirch, Stüdio Lütz, Leipzig, DE (solo)

2017

NAK Benefit Auction, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, DE
CHRIS & USCHI, Brauhaus Siegen, DE
Die Grosse, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DE
Tulip – All2gether Sommer Kombi, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Hokuspokus, Unseen 2017, represented by Metronom, Amsterdam, NL
Thomas, Uschi, Chris & David, Park Hotel Amsterdam, NL (solo)
Tulip – All2gether Sommer Kombi, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL

2016

cropped&reloaded, Magazin, Siegen, DE (solo)
The Leitmotiv issue, Metronom, Modena, IT (solo)
Immersionsgehege, Kunstverein Siegen, DE
untitled (camping site), fotopub 2016, Novo Mesto, SI (solo)
At work, Studio 47, Amsterdam, NL
Again, Anew, Afresh, anon and once more, Punt Wg, Amsterdam, NL
Kartoffelbrot im Wald, art in public project, Siegen, DE
Schepp&Kacke, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, IT
Antik, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, DE
U Can’t Touch This, book launch, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Hit ‘Em Up, 5x3, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE

2015

I'd talk nicely to them and try and get them to come closer, Kunstverein Siegen, DE
double trash, Stift Keppel, Hilchenbach, DE (solo)
gehackt&verschraubt, Plan B, Siegen, DE (solo)
Mind&Matter, Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, DE
Summer Collection, fotopub 2015, Novo Mesto, SI
Summer Collection. Secondhand., UNSEEN 2015, Amsterdam, NL
FTPB, Kid Kibla, Maribor, SI
Guerilla Show, Tannery, Athens, GR

2014

Schnitzer, Kunstverein Malkasten Düsseldorf, DE (solo)
linkage, Gallery Terem, Pécs, HU (solo)
Allrad, Gallery Reinard, Giessen, DE (together with Michel Sauer and Martin Dicke)
Wrong Turn, Saar Galerie, Saarbrücken, DE
Das volle Feld, Galerie Haus Seel, DE

2013

Hip to be square, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, DE (solo)
Flache Tiefen, Kunstverein Siegen, DE
So etwas wie. Und surfen, Galerie Netphen, DE (solo)

Awards, Grants

2017

nominated for Steenbergen Stipendium, NL
Die Grosse, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DE
plat(t)form 17, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2016

European Photography Prize, EU
DAAD scholarship
Erasmus scholarship

2015

Winner of fotopub Prize

2014

Art Award University Siegen

2012-2013

NRW scholarship, DE

2011

Art Award University Siegen
NRW scholarship, DE

Publications

Immersionsgehege, published by Universi, 2017, DE (Design: Pauline Baumberger)
Unseen Magazine 2017, Publisher Unseen, 2017, NL
Tiere, entwürfe – Magazine for culture and literature, published by KaMeRu, 2016, CH
U Can’t Touch This, published by Skinnerboox, 2016, IT
5x3 Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 2016, DE
Near East Istanbul, Gabberisation of images, 2016, TR
Siegener Schull 1–4, together with Michel Sauer and Martin Dicke, self-published, 2015, DE
Intervention 1–5, published by Edition Imorde, 2011–2014, DE