THOMAS STRUTH
Archive Matrix Assembly: The Photography of Thomas Struth 1978–2018 (publication)
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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Civilization – Our Life in Focus (group show)
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
13 March – 19 July 2026
Thomas Struth’s work features in the group exhibition Civilization – Our Life in Focus at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Bringing together works by approximately 100 celebrated photographers, the exhibtion presents a multilayered portrait of contemporary society, drawing on both artistic and documentary approaches to the medium. Themes of family, leisure, work, and consumption are set against images of alienation, crime, environmental degradation, social fragmentation, and war. Collectively, these photographs offer a portrait of civilisation that is at once familiar and unsettling, articulated through the visual language of photography.
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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
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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Soane Honors Award for Photography
Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, New York
21 October 2025
We congratulate Thomas Struth on being awarded the Soane Honors Award for Photography.
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Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene (group show)
The Anchorage Museum
3 October 2025 – 5 April 2026
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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Inspiring People (group show)
National Portrait Gallery, London
From 22 June 2023
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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