Thomas Taube is a video artist. He studied with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and as a permanent guest student with Candice Breitz at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). In his works, Thomas Taube detaches the medium of film from its linear and stringent narrative structures. With multi-channel installations, associative, reflective, and surreal sequences, Taube worksagainst conventional cinematographic codes. Abolishing the immediacy of the medium through epic elements and discontinuous montage, his works aim to distinguish between seeing, observing, experiencing, and reflecting.His works are shown nationally and internationally in institutions such as the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig or the Center for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, in galleries and festivals, for example in the German Competition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen or at Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.He won the prize of the Leipzig Annual Exhibition 2015, the Marion Ermer Prize 2016 and received various scholarships such as the KDFS residency scholarship at ISCP New York, Urbane Künste Ruhr or the State Scholarhsip for Visual Arts 2023 of the Free State of Thuringia. His work can be found in various collections, including the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden. He published "The Whirr of the Image Machine" in 2015 with Spector Books. Taube is represented by REITER Galleries (Berlin/Leipzig).He is currently working on the 12-part project Apostel, as well as an autobiographical Arthouse movie in feature-length format about social utopias and social hotspots based on the social housing estate where he grew up.

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