Vita



1954

 

Born in Geldern, Germany

 


1973-1980

 
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

 


1978

 
New York Scholarship from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

 


1980-1982

 

Civil Service in a Community Center

 


1993-1996

 

Professor of Photography at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

 


1997

 

"Spectrum" International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen

 

 

Lives in Düsseldorf

Solo Exhibitions



2010

Thomas Struth, Fotografien 1978 – 2010
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
travelling to K20, Düsseldorf; Whitechapel Gallery, London and Museu Serralves, Porto (catalogue)

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (catalogue)


2009

 

Paradises

Frieze Art Fair 2009 - DB VIP Lounge, London

Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens



2008

 

Familienleben
De Pont museum of contemporary art, Tilburg (catalogue)

 

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels

 

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRe, Naples


Familienleben
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (catalogue)

 

Family Portraits
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam

 

 

2007

 

Monica de Cardenas Galleria, Milan

Making Time

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Making Time
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Making Time
Museo del Prado, Madrid (catalogue)

 

2006

 

Thomas Struth – Rineke Dijkstra
Galerie Xippas, Athens

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels

 

 

2005

 

Audience, Read This Like Seeing It For The First Time

(Video work in collaboration with The Bern Academy of Music)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Museum Photographs 1987 - 2004
Galleri K, Oslo

 

Audience

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam

 

Imágenes el Perú

Museo de Arte Lima, Lima

 

Arbeiten aus Peru

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

 

Audience

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

 


2004

 

Pergamon Museum I-VI
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (catalogue)

 

Une Heure: Video Portraits
CAPC - Musée d' Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux

 


2003

 

1977-2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Cities

Marian Goodmann Gallery, Paris

 

Strassen
Galleri K, Oslo

 

Pergamon Musum I-VI

Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan

 


2002

 

Pergamon I – IV
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

1977-2002
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas;
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(catalogue)

 

New Pictures from Paradise
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden;
Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca
(catalogue)

 

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

 


2001

 

Pictures from the Dandelion Room
Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich
(catalogue)

 

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

 

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels

 


2000

 

My Portrait
Galleri K, Oslo

 

My Portrait
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
(catalogue)

 

Galerie Shimada, Tokyo

 


1999

 

Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan

 

Still
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

 

Gallery Shimada, Tokyo

 

The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch)
Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg

 

New Pictures from Paradise
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

 


1998

 

The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch)
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

 

Still
Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
(catalogue)

 

Centro Galego de Are Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela

 

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels

 

Nouveau Portraits

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

 

 

1997

 

Face to Face (with Luo Yongijn)
Fine Arts Foundation of Beijing;
International Art Palace, Peking
(catalogue)

 

Portraits
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (catalogue)

 

Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf (with Cindy Sherman)

 

The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

 

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Nieuw Werk

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam

 

 

1996

 

Valocuvia Fotografier

Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki (catalogue)

 

Galerie Shimada, Tokyo

 


1995

 

Strangers and Friends
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)

 

Strassen
Kunstmuseum Bonn (catalogue)

 

Neue Arbeiten

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

 

Oeuvre récentes

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

 

Landschaften

Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi

 


1994

 

Strangers and Friends
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston;
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
(catalogue)

 

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels

 


1993

 

Museum Photographs
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)

 

Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan

 

Photographien aus Deutschland

Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi

 

The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

 

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

 


1992

 

Portrait

Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (catalogue)

 

Directions

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

 

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

 


1991

 

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels

 

House-Street-Individual-Group

Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi

 


1990

 

Photographs

The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)

 

Portrait and Museum Photographs

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam

 

Giovanni Minelli, Paris

 

Urbi et Orbis, Paris

 


1989

 

The Clocktower, New York (with Andreas Gursky)

 

Halle Sud, Geneva

 

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

 

Neue Bilder

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

 


1988

 

Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Bruxelles

 

Neapel and Tokyo

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

 

Portikus, Frankfurt/M. (with Siah Armajani)

 


1987

 

Unconscious Places
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern;
Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Münster (with Siah Armajani);
Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi;
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
(catalogue)

 

Tokyo und Münster

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

 


1986

 

Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi

 


1985

 

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

 


1980

 

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

 

Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (with Roswitha Ronkholz)

 


1978

 

P.S1 - Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City

Group Exhibitions



2009


Verschwindende Landschaften / vanashing landscapes

Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg

Düsseldorfer Schule - Photographien von 1970 bis 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schimer

Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich

PastPresentFuture - Highlights from UniCredit Group Collection

Kunstforum Wien, Vienna

Beautiful Fiction

Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario

The Making of Art

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

Urban Spaces, Geography, Identity, Urbanism

Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires

 

Horizons

Foundation Beyerle, Basel

Sechzig Jahre - Sechzig Werke, Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Michelangelo - La pietà Rondanini e il Crocifisso ritrovato
Castello Sforzesco, Milan

Terra di nessuno
Museo Risi, Napels

Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister, MoMA
La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museo di arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Obdachlose fotografieren Passanten

Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf



2008

 

 

Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

 

Museum as a Medium
MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo

 

Real
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M.

From Velázquez to Picasso: Las Meninas
Museu Picasso, Barcelona

 

Sichtbarwerden
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Fluid Street
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

Kavalierstart 1978-1982
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

God & Goods
Villa Manin, Passariano

Dürer und... Künstler der Akademie
Akademie Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf

Inside Architecture
MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

Art for the Spirit – Works from the UBS Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

 

All Inclusive – A Tourist World
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M. (catalogue)

 

2007

 

Private/Public
Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

What does the jellyfish want?
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Visit(e). Werke aus der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (catalogue)

Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

 

Spectacular City – Photographing the Future
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

 

2006

 

Der Kontrakt des Fotografen
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Wrestle
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

A Tribute to Cézanne
Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York

Das Junge Rheinland
Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Carbonic Anhydride
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

FASTER!BIGGER!BETTER!
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Eldorado
Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

click doubleclick
Haus der Kunst, Munich;

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Why Pictures Now
Museum moderner Kunst,Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

Tiefenschärfe: Bilder von Menschen
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden

A Curator’s Eye
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Medium Fotografie
Galerie Stampa, Basel

Nature Attitudes
TB A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Cinemas
Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble

7th Wing East Collection: Culture Bond
Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London

 

More than meets the eye
MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey

Edward Steichen Photography Gallery
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Spectacular City
Netherlands Architecture Insitute, Rotterdam; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

Seventy-five at 75
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle

Les Peintres de la vie moderne: Donation – Collection Photographie de la Caisse des Depôts
Centre Pompidou

Thomas Struth / Rineke Dijkstra
Xippas Gallery, Athens

Os Anos 80
Museo Serralves, Porto

Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico

Der Himmel auf Erden: Der Blick des Künstlers auf den Garten vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Städel, Frankfurt/M.

 

 

2005

 

Blumenstück: Künstlers Glück
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

 

Beyond Delirious / Indeterminate States

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami

 

Contemporary Voices - Works from the UBS Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Kontexte der Fotografie
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen

 

25 Deutsche Bank: 25th Anniversary of the Deutsche Bank Collection
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

 

Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

 

Some Trees
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen

 

Kreuz und Kruzifix, Zeichen und Bild
Diözesanmuseum Freising, Freising

 

Gerhard Richter: Ohne Farbe
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

 

Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art
San Diego Art Museum, San Diego

 

Family Pictures

Galleria Gottardo, Lugano

 

 

2004

 

Forme per il David
Galleria dell' Accademia, Firenze

 

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

 

Berlin Biennale
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

 

Stephen Shore / Thomas Struth
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

 

Love and Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan
Villa Manin - Centro d' Arte Contemporanea, Coroipa

 

Plum Collection
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve

 

German Art
Altana Kulturforum at Städel, Frankfurt/M.

 

20 Years Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

 

ArchiSkulptur
Foundation Beyeler, Basel

 

Território Livre
26th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhâo Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo


2003

 

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Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

 

August Sander / Thomas Struth
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen

 

Franz von Lenbach und die Kunst der Gegenwart
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

 

Warum!
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

 

Cruel and Tender
Tate Modern, London;
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

Schachtelhalm und Löwenzahn. Vom Herbarisieren und Fokussieren
Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz

 

Read This Like Seen For The First Time
Biennale Bern, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Bern

 

Affinities...Now ...and Then
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City

 

The Big Picture
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

 

German Art Now
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

 

Happiness
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

 

Explosive Photography
Nassau County Museum of Art, New York

 


2002

 

Lila, weiß und andere Farben
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

 

Wallflowers: Große Fotografien
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

 

Sammlungspräsentation
K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf

 

Heute bis Jetzt: Im Labor der Bilder
Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

 

AUGENBLICK Foto/Kunst
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (catalogue)

 

Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit
Kunsthalle Emden, Emden (catalogue)

 

Open City: Aspects of Street Photography 1950-2000
Museum de Bellas Artes de Bilbao;

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

 

Passenger: The Viewer as Participant
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

 

Moving Pictures
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

 

L'immagine ritrovata / The Image regained: Painting and Photography from the Eighties to Today
Museo Cantonale d' Arte, Lugano

 


2001

 

En pleine terre
Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel

 

Ex(O)Dus
Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
 

Abbild
Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (catalogue)

 

Museum der Wünsche
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

Instant City
Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato

 

Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen

 


2000

 

The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art
Castello di Rivoli -  Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin

 

Milano senza confini
Spazio Oberdan, Milan

 

Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht: Architekturfotographie
Museum Bochum, Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow (catalogue)

 

How you look at it: Photography in the 20th Century
EXPO 2000 – Sprengel Museum Hannover;
Städel, Frankfurt/M.
(catalogue)

 

5th Bienale de Lyon, Lyon

 

Architecture: Hot and Cold
Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Vision and Reality
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

 

Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)

 


1999

 

Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalogue)

 

The Museum as Muse: Artists reflect
Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

 

Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography
Architectual Association, London (catalogue)

 

Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

 

L'art médecin
Musée Picasso, Antibes

 

The Mirror's Edge
BildMuseet, Umeå

 


1998

 

Art of the Eighties
Culturgest, Lisbon

 

Urban
Tate Gallery, Liverpool

 

The 11th Sydney Biennale, Sydney

 

Unfinished History
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

 


1997

 

Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (catalogue)

 

In visible light
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

 

Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland nach 1945
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)

 


1996

 

Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

 

Distanz und Nähe
Kawasaki City Museum, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan (catalogue)

 

 

1994

 

The Epic and the Everyday

Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)

 

Who's Looking at the Family?
Barbican Art Gallery, London

 


1993

 

Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst
Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
(catalogue)

 

Distanz und Nähe
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (catalogue)

 


1992

 

Documenta IX, Kassel (catalogue)

 

Mehr als ein Bild
Sprengel Museum, Hanover

 

Family Album: Changing Perspective of Family Portrait
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (catalogue)

 

Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York;
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas;
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

 


1991

 

Aus der Distanz
K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

 

The Carnegie International
CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)

 

Typologies
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport;
Akron Art Museum, Ohio;
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.;
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

 

Sguarda di Medusa
Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin

 


1990

 

Aperto '90
Biennale di Venezia, Venice

 

de Afstand
Witte de With - Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

 

Images in Transition
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

 

Weitersehen
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

 


1989

 

Another Objectivity
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris;
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
(catalogue)

 

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

 

Prospect Fotografie
Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M.

 


1988

 

La Razon Revisada / Reason Revised
Fondacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid & Barcelona

 

Another Objectivity
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

 


1987

 

Skulptur Projekte Münster '87 (catalogue)

 


1986

 

Standort Düsseldorf '86
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsselorf (catalogue)

 

Fotografie und Skulptur
Studio Hansaallee, Düsseldorf

 


1985

 

New York State University Gallery, New York
(with Susan Grayson & Joseph Bartscherer)

 


1981

 

Erweiterte Fotografie
5th Internationale Biennale, Vienna Secession, Vienna

 


1979

 

In Deutschland: Aspekte gegenwärtiger Dokumentarfotografie in Deutschland
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn

 

Schlaglichter: Junge Kunst im Rheinland
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)