Thomas Eggerer

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"Eggerer, a thirty-eight-year-old German living in Los Angeles, has arrived at this aesthetic through an intellectually and geographically circuitous route. He was trained in painting at the Munich Art Academy, but in the mid-'90s he collaborated with classmate Jochen Klein on a series of conceptually oriented projects and essays centering on questions of identity and public space, some of which appeared in the German journal Texte zur Kunst. In one particularly memorable 1994 work he and Klein install ed a community bulletin board in a public toilet in Munich known as a gay cruising spot, or "tearoom." With this gesture the artists visualized--and memorialized--the covert constitution of subcultural communities in sites like a park's bathrooms. Indeed, while on a DAAD grant in New York during the mid-'90s, Eggerer joined the artists' collective Group Material in order to explore such intersections of desire, location, and history in the context of competing definitions of public and private space." (daqui)

interesting text about the collective Group Material, here.