Join Thomas Struth and Joachim Jäger, Deputy Director, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, for a conversation about the significance of photography today, its changing role since the artist began his career, and his approaches to photographing people and places.

Renowned Germany photographer Thomas Struth is known for his careful exploration of themes revolving around the relationship between people and their environment. Harmonizing documentation and artistic contemplation, his photographs capture society through images of cultural spaces, nature, portraiture, and places of industrial and technological innovation. His new solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler features works from the past four decades, showcasing the artist’s – as well as society’s – continual evolution.

Please note this conversation will take place in German. The event is free and open to the public.

Thomas Struth's work will be featured in On View: Encounters with the Photographic, at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. The Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation and the Collection of Photography and Time-Based Media are presenting a joint overview of their holdings in one exhibition for the first time. Bringing together some 250 works by more than 50 artists, the exhibition highlights key moments in 20th and 21st-century artistic photography, including both core pieces and recent acquisitions. Curated by Simone Förster and Franziska Kunze, this exhibtion presents the medium of photography as a powerful art form that shapes visual perception and influences current discourses.

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Thomas Struth’s work is featured in the group exhibition Typologien, an extensive study dedicated to 20^th-century German photography. The exhibition path follows a typological rather than chronological order, bringing together more than 600 photographic works by 25 established and lesser-known artists, essential for recounting a century of Germany photography. A system of suspended walls creates geometric partitions in the exhibition space, forming unexpected connections between artistic practices that differ from each other, but are united by a common principle or intention of classification.

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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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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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