Based in Berlin, Thomas Scheibitz's recent notable exhibitions include ONE - Time Pad originating at MMK, Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main and traveled to Baltic Center for
Contemporary Art, 2012 - 2013 (solo); Thomas Scheibitz: Lineage ONE / Stilleben & Statistics, Jarla Partilager, Berlin, 2011 - 2012 (solo); Thomas Scheibitz: Il flume e le sue fonti / The River and its Source, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2011 (solo); Surveyor: An exhibition
of human exploration, observation, and construction of the landscape, organized by Curator Heather Pesanti, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2011 (group); If Not in This Period Of Time - Contemporary German Painting1998 - 2010, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2010 - 2011 (group); A moving plan B - chapter ONE, Selected by Thomas Scheibitz, The Drawing Room, London, 2010 (group); Der ungefegte Raum, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2010 (solo); among other
of human exploration,
observation, and construction
of the landscape, organized by Curator Heather Pesanti, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2011 (group); If Not in This Period Of Time - Contemporary German Painting1998 - 2010, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2010 - 2011 (group); A moving plan B - chapter ONE, Selected by Thomas Scheibitz, The Drawing Room, London, 2010 (group); Der ungefegte Raum, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2010 (solo); among other
of the landscape, organized by Curator Heather Pesanti, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2011 (group); If Not in This Period
Of Time - Contemporary German Painting1998 - 2010, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2010 - 2011 (group); A moving plan B - chapter ONE, Selected by Thomas Scheibitz, The Drawing Room, London, 2010 (group); Der ungefegte Raum, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2010 (solo); among other
Of Time -
Contemporary German Painting1998 - 2010, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, 2010 - 2011 (group); A moving plan B - chapter ONE, Selected by Thomas Scheibitz, The Drawing Room, London, 2010 (group); Der ungefegte Raum, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2010 (solo); among
others.
Some
other memorable map exhibitions include: Map as Art, Kemper Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2012); HereThereEverywhere, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (2007); and The World According to the Newest and Most Exact
Observations: Mapping Art and Science, at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (2001).
Their sources include church records, commissions
of inquiries into glacier disasters, taxes on farms affected by glaciers, town records, population records, illustrations and lithographs,
observations by travellers and scientists, scientific papers, historic articles on glaciers from
contemporary sources in English, French, German and Italian, correlation with wine and grain harvest dates, alpine clubs, mountaineers and tree line / plant growth records amongst
other sources.