Tobias Zielony

Tobias Zielony is a German photographer and short filmmaker, living in Berlin. He has made work about communities at the margins of society, such as young people. In 2015, Zielony's series on African refugees in Germany, the Citizen, co-represented the country at the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. He had a mid-career retrospective at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany in 2021 and his work is held in the collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Biography

Zielony was born in Wuppertal, Germany. From 1998 to 2001, he studied documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport in Wales. From 2001 to 2006, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. He now lives in Berlin.

Behind the Block. Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2004..
Tobias Zielony. ; Universitätsverlag, Weimar, 2004..
The Cast. Berlin: C/O Berlin; Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007..
Trona: Armpit of America. Leipzig:, 2008..
Story / No Story. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010..
Manitoba. Leipzig: Spector, 2011..
Jenny Jenny. Leipzig: Spector, 2013..
Vele. Leipzig: Spector, 2014..
The Fall. Leipzig: Spector, 2021.. A series of six books, each including a text or work of fiction by one of Dora Koderhold,, Sophia Eisenhut,, Mazlum Nergiz and. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at Museum Folkwang. In English and German.

Tobias Zielony. The Fall, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 2021. A mid-career retrospective of photography and video.

One of four shortlisted, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, London, 2015 for ''the Citizen''

Zielony's work is held in the following permanent collection: