Free saxophonist Evan Parker will perform a concert at St James’s Piccadilly. This event is organised in conjunction with Thomas Struth’s exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, London (2 June – 29 July), dedicated to new photographs taken at CERN, shown for the first time in the UK. They form part of Struth’s 'Nature and Politics', a body of work which examines how ambition and human imagination become a sculptural, spatial reality.

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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

Works by Ai Weiwei and Thomas Struth are on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, in Trace - Formations of Likeness. The major survey is in collaboration with The Walther Collection and presents more than 1000 works by a diverse group of artists from different cultural backgrounds, offering a global context to reflect on the divergent trajectories of photography today. Collectively, they showcase the medium’s capacity as both an instrument for empowerment and formation of the self, as well as its complex uses as a tool for control and subjugation.

Haus der Kunst

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 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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