Contact:
Blockhausstr. 5, 02826 Görlitz / Germany
+49 1627 344 025 /  thomaslewandovski@gmail.com

Tomasz Lewandowski (DGPh)
is born 1978 in Nysa (PL), 2004 engineer graduate in the Opole University of Technology (PL), 2006 cofounder of TUMW Wroclaw (PL), 2007 co-owner and later journalist for Inwestor magazine (PL), Since 2010 freelance journalist and photographer for architectural magazines, 2012 master of arts graduate in photography in the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts Halle under prof. Rudolf Schäfer (D), 2012 assistant lecturer in the Burg Giebichenstein U.o.A.(D), 2014 start of the ph.d. in the Burg Giebichenstein U.o.A in the department of Design Studies (D), since 2014 guest lecturer for the photography in the Institute of the Art Education Warsaw (PL) and in the Burg Giebichenstein University of Arts Halle, 2018 guest lecturer for the photography in the Martin Luther University Halle (Saale) (D), 2019-2020 free curator and organizer of art exhibitions by Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden (D), 2020-2022 Vice Chairman and curator of Fotoforum Dresden (D), 2020 nomination in the jury of Portraits – Hellerau Photography Award (D), 2022 nomination in Deutsch Gesellschaft für Photographie (D/DGPh). Publications (text, photo) in several architectural magazines in Europe, Asia and North America.

Individual exhibitions:
2020 - Auschwitz – Fall of the Modern Age / Blank Gallery, Parma (I), 2020 - Polish Summer / Galerie der Zentralen Kustodie, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle (Saale) (D), 2019 - Auschwitz – Typologie eines Konzentrationslagers / Quergalerie, Universität der Künste, Berlin (D), 2019 - Polish Summer / Bürgersaal, Rathaus Dresden-Leuben, Dresden (D), 2019 - UPADEK / Auschwitz - ultima ratio of the modern age / Centrala, poznanska przestrzen tworcza, Poznan (PL), 2018 - Polish Summer / Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden (D), 2018 - Bauen für Luther 1998-2018 / Lutherhaus, Wittenberg (D), 2017 - Auschwitz - ultima ratio of the modern age / Galeria APS/IEA, Warsaw (PL), 2016 - Cité idéale / Galeria APS/IEA, Warsaw (PL), 2014 - Cité idéale / Moritzburg Café - Stiftung Moritzburg, Halle Saale (D).

Group exhibitions:
New York (USA), Damascus (SYR), Berlin (D), Warsaw (PL), Moscow (RU), Munich (D), Leipzig (D), Karlsruhe (D), Halle (Saale) (D), Saarbrücken (D), Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark in Neu Anspach (D), Poznan (PL).

Art festivals:
2019 – Interphoto Festival, individual exhibition of the project "Polish Summer", Bialystok (PL), 2019 – Neisse Filmfestival, individual exhibition of the project "Polish Summer", Zittau (D), 2017 – „Interphoto“ (Grand Prix exhibition – nomination, exhibited finalist), Bialystok (PL), 2017 – Vintage Photo Festival (Grand Prix exhibition – 2nd Prize), Bydgoszcz (PL), 2015 – „WFFA“ Warszawski Festiwal Fotografii Artystycznej (program open, individual exhibition), Warsaw (PL).

Awards:
2020 - Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (D): silver medal (Auschwitz – Ultima Ratio of Modern Age), 2018 – Moscow International Foto Awards / MIFA (RU): Architecture Photographer of the Year - 1st place winner in Architecture, 2017 – LensCulture (NL): Emerging Talent Awards, 2017 – ND AWARDS (UK): 3rd place Bronze Star Award, 2017 – HANT Magazin für Fotografie (D): nominee for jubilee issue №10 "HOME SWEET HOME", 2017 – Photography Grant: Architecture Nominee, 2017 – Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz ( PL): 2nd Grand Prix Prize, 2017 – International Photography Awards (IPA): 1st Place in Book (self-published) / Documentary, 2017 – Monovision Awards: 1st Place – Black & White Architectural Series of the Year, 2017 – „Wie wollen wir wohnen“, photo competition of the Fotopioniere Louis&Nicéphore (D): exhibited finalist, 2017 – Felix Schoeller Preis (D): shortlisted, 2015 – „Stadttraum-Traumstadt“, photo competition of the Hoepfner-Stiftung (D): exhibited finalist, 2015 – Opus Fotopreis (D): exhibited finalist.

Books:
2020 – „Tomasz Lewandowski / WBS70 Fünfzig Jahre danach" - text book with contributions by Niels-Christian Fritsche, Magdalena Kamińska, Antje Kirsch, Christopher Nickol, Stefan Paruch, Tanja Scheffler and with photographs by Christine Starke, sphere publishers, Leipzig, 2019 – „Tomasz Lewandowski / Auschwitz – Fall of the modern age" - photo and text book with contributions by Riccardo Bavaj and Matthias Noell, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), 2018 – „Tomasz Lewandowski / Polish Summer" - exhibition catalogue, Forum für zeitgenössische Fotografie Dresden e.V., Dresden, 2017 – „Weiterbauen, weiterdenken – neue Häuser für Martin Luther. Die musealen Erweiterungen in Wittenberg, Eisleben und Mansfeld.“ Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Hirmer Verlag, München.

Schoolarships:
2020 project funding by Kulturstiftung Sachsen, Dresden (D), 2018 project funding by Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle Saale (D), 2014-2016 – Ph.D. schoolarship by Saalesparkasse, Halle Saale (D).

Works in collections:
Centrala Art Space and Gallery, Poznan (PL),
private collection / Mr. Andrzej Mokry, Berlin (D),
private collection / Mr. Fulvio Villa, Parma (I),
private collection / Mr. Thomas Dietzsch, Halle (Saale) (D).