THOMAS STRUTH

Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection (group show)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
18 May 2024 – 5 January 2025

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Installation view: Fragile Beauty, V&A South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view: Fragile Beauty, V&A South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Photographs by Thomas Struth are included in Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection. Showcasing over 300 rare prints from 140 photographers, Fragile Beauty is a major presentation of 20th- and 21st-century photography on loan from the private collection of Sir Elton John and David Furnish. The photographs – many of which are on public display for the first time – are era-defining images which explore the connection between strength and vulnerability inherent in the human condition.

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Installation view: Fragile Beauty, V&A South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view: Fragile Beauty, V&A South Kensington © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Looking Forward: New Gifts of Art (group show)
Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum
7 November 2025 – 15 February 2026

Thomas Struth, Hot Rolling Mill, ThyssenKrupp Steel, Duisburg, 2010 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Hot Rolling Mill, ThyssenKrupp Steel, Duisburg, 2010 © Thomas Struth

Work by Thomas Struth will feature in the group exhibition Looking Forward: New Gifts of Art at Milwaukee Art Museum, which opens on 7 November 2025. Through this exhibtion, the museum honours all collectors who have donated works of art to the museum in recent years.

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Thomas Struth, Hot Rolling Mill, ThyssenKrupp Steel, Duisburg, 2010 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Hot Rolling Mill, ThyssenKrupp Steel, Duisburg, 2010 © Thomas Struth

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Soane Honors Award for Photography
Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, New York
21 October 2025

Photo:  © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation
Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

We congratulate Thomas Struth on being awarded the Soane Honors Award for Photography.

Photo:  © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation
Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

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Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene (group show)
The Anchorage Museum
3 October 2025 – 5 April 2026

Thomas Struth, Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, © Thomas Struth

Work by Thomas Struth is featured in the group show Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, at the Anchorage Museum, until 5 April 2026. The exhibition explores images captured by 43 artists, who have pushed technological boundaries and developed conceptual approaches to image-making, rupturing the traditions of the photographic medium. The technological shift of the early 2000s coincided with the emergence of the term Anthropocene, allowing artists to use new, digital tools and develop a new visual language to represent the land, collectively reckoning with what it means to live on Earth in this age.

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Thomas Struth, Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, © Thomas Struth

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Inspiring People (group show)
National Portrait Gallery, London
From 22 June 2023

Thomas Struth, Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011, 2011, © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011, 2011, © Thomas Struth

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.

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Thomas Struth, Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011, 2011, © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle 2011, 2011, © Thomas Struth

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Archive Matrix Assembly: The Photography of Thomas Struth 1978–2018 (publication)

Photo: Kris Graves
Photo: Kris Graves

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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Photo: Kris Graves
Photo: Kris Graves