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Tobias Zielony is known for his photographic depictions of young people living on the fringes of affluent societies and social acceptance. For the past 20 years, Zielony has focused on suburban milieus that, from Canada to England, Ukraine and Japan, have in common that they have fallen out of the promises of modernity’s progress and are establishing a temporary life in their own cultural niches. What goes hand in hand with melancholy at the same time reveals a great human tenderness in the cohesion of precarious communities, which Zielony approaches and gives the space to stage themselves. In the process, Zielony’s critical approach to documentary manifests itself in a specific aesthetic and relationship to fiction. His numerous institutional exhibitions include the German Pavilion in Venice 2015. Tobias Zielony is a professor in Hamburg since 2022.
Zielony´s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions recently such as Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (2024/25), Standard Deluxe, Lausanne (2025), KOW, Berlin (2023), Marta Herford (2022) or Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2022).
Since winter semester 2022/23 Tobias Zielony is professor of photography at HFBK Hamburg.