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

Rineke Dijkstra’s Odessa, Ukraine, August 7, 1993, 1993 will be on view in the exhibition yours truly, at the Museum Morsbroich. Bringing together works of figurative and abstract art, spanning painting, video and photography, the exhibition considers how artists may seek dialogue with the viewer in order to prompt existential questions.

Museum Morsbroich 

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

Rineke Dijkstra’s monumental, three-channel video installation Night Watching is now on view at the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego. First debuted in 2019 following a commission by the Rijksmuseum, Night Watching features 14 diverse audiences contemplating Rembrandt van Rijn’s most iconic work, The Night Watch, 1642). On six consecutive evenings, Dijkstra filmed groups standing or sitting directly in front of the painting, recording their conversations, which range from close visual descriptions to speculations about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this masterpiece. The Timken's presentation of Night Watching represents the first time that this complex project has been seen on the West Coast and inaugurates a new curatorial series at the Timken entitled Reconsidering Rembrandt.

Timken Museum

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

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, will bring together work by Richard Prince in a new exhibition focused on the artist's understated assessments of the banal aspects of society. Treating idol worship, seduction, and the visual codes of the collective unconscious as central themes, the exhibition pays tribute to Prince's expert eye.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Rineke Dijkstra's work will be included in The Rhythm of the Night, an exhibition of video art. An ode to the night, the exhibition celebrates the dizzying experience of dance events, the possibility of nightclubs to act as havens for freedom and self-expression, and the artistic potential of the video medium itself. The show features Dijkstra's The Krazy House, 2009, which portrays young clubbers on a dancefloor in Liverpool, England. ‘The result is a beguiling, fragile and yet familiar reflection of the social and cultural codes with which young people shape their identity’, curator Manique Hendricks explains.

Frans Hals Museum

Works by Richard Prince are now on view in The Karpidas Collection. The first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the state of Texas, Richard Prince: Selections from The Karpidas Collection features over 40 artworks spanning almost 40 years of Prince’s oeuvre, from the iconic Marlboro cowboys to the infamous Instagram portraits.

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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