A guest at
project space KIMGO
John-Schehr-Straße 1
10407 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
As one of the three central artists of the collaborative project Spektrum des Lebens (Spectrum of Life), Thomas Nitz brings a perspective that radically rethinks the existential fixed points of birth, marriage and death. His photographic work does not seek to depict the event itself, but traces the driving forces and basic needs that determine our existence at its core.
In his series crossover , Nitz devotes himself to the primal instinct: lust, nudity and physicality. He thus marks the absolute zero point of the spectrum – the desire that precedes every life. Before a person is born, there is the power of desire, which is thematized here in its raw, unadulterated form.
This craving for life and the energy required to sustain it is further explored in his series Brut. Here, Nitz places food at the center, an element that accompanies all human rituals—be it a wedding feast, a funeral wake, or daily sustenance. However, Nitz strips the subject of any aesthetic appeal. Through a deliberately unappetizing presentation, he restores a sense of weight to food that is often lost behind its mere function in everyday life. He makes the physical necessity and the material gravity of existence palpable.
A darker, yet unavoidable part of the spectrum of life is captured in his Screenshot series. Here, Nitz addresses the anxiety that hangs over modern society like a constant undertone. The works are based on images from war zones—a visual manifestation of a threat we cannot escape, one that resonates in every moment.
What is special about Thomas Nitz’s working method is the physical treatment of his medium. Although his works are based on analog photography, he uses the print like a canvas. Through this manual, almost painterly process, he breaks up the reproducible nature of photography. Each work thus becomes unique, emphasizing the fragility and uniqueness of the moments that define our lives between the first desire and the last fear.