Tobias Kaspar (1984) lives in Riga, Latvia. In 2012 he founded his eponymous jeans line, he is co-founder of PROVENCE, an eight-issue magazine. In 2015, Tobias Kaspar opened Toby’s Tristram Shandy Shop in Berlin (at Udolpho). His artworks are often conceived as larger bodies of works and bare titles such as Lumpy Blue Sweater (2010), Bodies in the Backdrop (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), Friends, Lovers & Financiers (2014), Two Cities - Two Lives (2015) and The Street (2016)
His work has been shown in institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2016), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015), Solo Shows, São Paulo (2015), CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (2014), Kunsthalle Wien (2014), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2014), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013), Artists Space, New York (2013), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), Kunsthalle Zürich (2011), Kunsthalle Basel (2011), Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2010).
Today
Ongoing
Morad Montazami: Black Gold or Curse. Investigating Petro-Modernity and the Hypothesis of a Post-Oil Visual Culture
Lecture, 3 December 2024, 19:00
Jean Charles de Quillacq: A real boy
Lecture, 19 November 2024, 19:00
Gabu Heindl & Drehli Robnik: Composing and Decomposing a Whole. Ideologies of Solutionism and Politics of Nonsolution
Lecture, 12 November 2024, 19:00
Diego Marcon
Screening (04. Nov) Lecture (05. Nov), 4 – 5 November 2024, 19:00
Dora Budor: Sidebar
Lecture, 29 October 2024, 19:00
Ghislaine Leung: Questions
Talk, 22 October 2024, 19:00
From Portikus to Prototype: How to Display Art in the City
Talk, 20 October 2024, 16:00
Nathalie Du Pasquier & Luca Lo Pinto: ON THE SHELF
Talk, 19 October 2024, 18:00
Biomorphic Window 01: Pharmakon / Kollaps / Lana del Rabies
Concert, 2 October 2024, 19:00–23:00
„The Frankfurt Prototype“
Opening, 1 October 2024, 18:00
Kasper König (1943–2024)
Obituary, 9 August 2024
Vera Palme: The And
Lecture, 9 July 2024, 19:00
Zasha Colah
Lecture, 2 July 2024, 19:00
The Call
Exhibition, 28 June – 21 July 2024
Dylan Solomon KRAUS: The Seventh Point on the Six Sided Die
Lecture, 11 June 2024, 19:00
Listening Session
Event, 3 June 2024, 17:00–20:00
Tarik Kiswanson
Lecture, 28 May 2024, 19:00
Guerilla Architects: WE ARE SORRY!
Lecture, 21 May 2024, 19:00
Pio Abad: To Those Sitting in Darkness
Lecture, 14 May 2024, 19:00
Sir Peter Cook: CONSIDERING THE PICTURESQUE
Lecture, 13 May 2024, 19:00
Débora Delmar: Property
Lecture, 7 May 2024, 19:00
JUNGE KUNST MIT ZUKUNFT
Event, 4 May 2024, 18:00
Elisa R. Linn: The Berlin Wall as a Condom
Lecture, 2 May 2024, 19:00
R.H. Quaytman: Book
Lecture, 30 April 2024, 19:00
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Lecture, 23 April 2024, 19:00
Phillip Zaiser (1969–2024)
Obituary, 6 April 2024
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Information, 25 March – 31 May 2024
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Event, 10 February 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Lecture, 6 February 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Lecture, 30 January 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Lecture, 25 January 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening, 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Lecture, 16 January 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evocation, Installation, Simulation
Lecture, 9 January 2024, 19:00
Tobias Kaspar: Dress Code Black
Lecture 15 December 2016, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main