Thomas Seelig studied Visual Communication at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, followed by a curatorial study program at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht/NL. He joined the Fotomuseum Winterthur team in 2003 as curator/collection curator and was co-directing the Fotomuseum from 2013-17. Thematic exhibitions he curated were for example The Ecstasy of Things (2004), Research and Invention (2007), Karaoke (2009) or  Concrete – Architecture and Photography (2013).