Works by Rineke Dijkstra, Richard Prince and Thomas Struth will be on view at Museum Brandhorst as part of a major presentation of international photographs, generously donated to the museum’s holdings by Eva Felten. Amassed since the late 1980s, Felten’s collection primarily focuses on depictions of people, comprising over 1050 works by 134 artists. Highlights from the collection will be presented in the exhibition, curated by Monika Bayer-Wermuth.

Museum Brandhorst

Thomas Struth’s The Charles Family, Berlin 2021, 2021, is included in the group exhibition (WAHL-)Familie. Die, Die Wir Sind at Kunstmuseum Ravensburg. Bringing together works by fourteen contemporary artists revolving around the topic of family, the exhibition asks how we define belonging and paints a multi-layered picture of what family can be. 

Kunstmuseum Ravensburg

Works by Matthew Barney, Ida Eklbad, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool are included in Before Tomorrow – an extensive group exhibition celebrating the hidden treasures and recent acquisitions of the Astrup Fearnley Collection in celebration of its thirtieth anniversary. The selected works represent various time periods and highlight a number of key directions that have come to define the identity of the collection and the museum more broadly.

Astrup Fearnley Museet

Thomas Struth’s photograph Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011, 2011, will be on view as part of the exhibition Inspiring People. Transforming the National Portrait Gallery, the Inspiring People project comprises a complete re-presentation of the Collection, combined with a significant refurbishment of the building, the creation of public spaces, a more welcoming visitor entrance and public forecourt, and a new Learning centre. The Gallery reopens to the public on 22 June 2023.

National Portrait Gallery

On the occasion of its reopening after extensive renovation, the Medizinhistorisches Museum Charité in Berlin will present a special exhibition focused on neurological themes in science and art. Struth’s work Figure II, Charité, Berlin 2013, 2013, will be on view. 

Medizinhistorisches Museum Charité

Works by Thomas Struth will be on view in Capturing the Moment, at Tate Modern, London. Exploring the dynamic relationship between painting and photography, the exhibition presents some of the greatest painters and photographers of the modern era, examining how the brush and the lens have been used to capture moments in time. 

Tate Modern

Thomas Struth’s Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin, 2001, 2001, is included in the group exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now, on view at the Saatchi Gallery, London, from 2 June 2023.

The exhibition tracks the visual threads of humanity’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe, through the eyes of 150 of the world’s most accomplished photographers. Featuring many previously unseen images, Civilization acknowledges the diverse material and spiritual cultures that make up global societies today, spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas. Exploring a wide range of subjects, from our great united achievements to our collective failings, the exhibition highlights the complexity and contradictions of contemporary civilization.

Saatchi Gallery

Thomas Struth’s photograph of a lab at CERN in Switzerland, titled Decay Station, ISOLDE, CERN, Meyrin 2019, 2019, will be included in a group presentation at the newly established exhibition space Black Box, in Munich. The exhibition presents a selection of contemporary photographic works and installations which are dedicated to industrial worlds and technological developments. 

Alexander Tutsek Stiftung

Thomas Struth’s Paradise 19, Bayerischer Wald, Deutschland 1999, 1999, will be on view in the exhibition Parlament der Pflanzen II at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. Taking mankind’s relationship to nature as its starting point, the exhibition will consider plants as intelligent beings with whom humans are in intimate contact, thereby prompting visitors to reevaluate conventional boundaries between nature and culture.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

Thomas Struth’s early album of photographs of New York will be included in an exhibition at the CCA, Montreal. As part of a series of exhibitions investigating photography as an artistic and documentative medium, The Lives of Documents will invite visitors to consider photography’s relationship to architecture.

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Work by Thomas Struth is currently on view as part of the group show ON STAGE at the mumok, Vienna. The exhibition explores the various theatrical and stage-related forms of expression in art since the 1960s, when a neo-avant-garde critical of tradition began focusing on performative and actionist art forms that endowed artists with a stage-like presence, often in front of an audience. The exhibition includes 150 works and work series, spanning Viennese Actionism, Dadaist theatre, the Fluxus-Movement, as well as cinematic and musical productions, most of which are culled from the holdings of the mumok collection.

mumok

Thomas Struth’s Crosby Street, Soho, New York 1978, 1978, will be on view in the exhibition BOHEMIA: History of an idea, 1950–2000. Bohemia is a real place that has also given its name to a cultural movement and way of living. From its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, the idea of bohemia has been a powerful and persistent component of artistic identity, with a reputation for living outside societal norms.  This exhibition looks at the differences and continuities in a variety of bohemian scenes, concluding at the end of the twentieth century, when commodity culture began to undermine this way of life. Nevertheless offering an alternative to conformity, the bohemian idea still beckons with ways of living that continue to galvanise and inspire.

Kunsthalle Praha

Thomas Struth’s Paradise 03, Daintree, Australia 1998, 1998, will be included in a new exhibition at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. As part of an ongoing series of exhibitions investigating the concept of landscape in contemporary art, the only constant prompts new dialogues on the relationship between humans and nature, touching on questions of paradise, development, and technological aspirations.

NYUAD Gallery

Archive Matrix Assembly: The Photography of Thomas Struth 1978–2018 presents the first comprehensive, systematic theory of Thomas Struth’s main body of photographic work from its beginnings in the late 1970s until his most recent work in 2018. The book presents a unique, evolutionary understanding of the work, proposing that it has established three stages of production: archive, matrix, and assembly. Together the three stages form a developmental system that characterizes the individual photographs, their relation to their subject matter, and how they form larger, significant collections of images. The book project accomplishes three main goals: it develops a comprehensive critical reading of the work, it serves as a monograph of the artist, and it provides an extensive analysis of the photographs at all stages, including the less discussed, more recent photography, which is placed on par with the earlier work for which Struth first became internationally renowned.

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