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

Works from Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Struth are featured in the group exhibition Glamour Studio. Contemporary Photography from the BMW donation at the MdbK Leipzig. In an impressive collation internationally renowned artists, the exhibition includes 70 photographic works from the BMW collection AutoWerke.

Thomas Struth’s work Saturn V Engine, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral 2008 is included in the group exhibition Moderne Zeiten. Industriebilder von Menzel bis Gursky. The exhibition is on view at the Museum Georg Schäfer in Schweinfurt from 24 July until 9 October 2022.

Museum Georg Schäfer

Work by Thomas Struth is included in the group exhibition Deutscher Kaviar. Die fotografische Sammlung, which will be on view at the Kunstmuseum Bonn from 21 July until 16 October 2022.

Kunstmuseum Bonn

Works by Vera Lutter and Thomas Struth are included in the group exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now, which will be on view at the Musei San Domenico in Forli from 15 September 2022 until 15 February 2023.

Civilization: The Way We Live Now is an international photography exhibition of monumental scale, featuring the work of over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe with over 200 original photographs being exhibited. In this increasingly globalised world, the exhibition explores photographers’ representations of life in cities as its key theme and presents a journey through the shared aspects of life in the urban environment. The selected works create a picture of collective life around the world and document patterns of mass behaviour. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal complexity of life in the twenty-first century and reflects on the ways in which photographers have documented, and held a mirror up, to the world around us.

Musei San Domenico

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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