THOMAS STRUTH et al.

BOHEMIA: History of an idea, 1950–2000 (group show)
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague
23 March – 16 October 2023

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Thomas Struth, Crosby Street, New York, Soho 1978, 1978, silver gelatin print, edition of 10, 44 x 56 cm. © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Crosby Street, New York, Soho 1978, 1978, silver gelatin print, edition of 10, 44 x 56 cm. © Thomas Struth

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, Crosby Street, New York, Soho 1978, 1978, silver gelatin print, edition of 10, 44 x 56 cm. © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Crosby Street, New York, Soho 1978, 1978, silver gelatin print, edition of 10, 44 x 56 cm. © Thomas Struth

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THOMAS STRUTH et al.

In Abwesenheit (group show)
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
3 March – 8 September 2024

Installation view: Philara Collection, Düsseldorf © the artist and Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, photo: Kai Werner Schmidt
Installation view: Philara Collection, Düsseldorf © the artist and Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

Works by Thomas Struth are on view in the group exhibition In Abwesenheit at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf. Spanning a period of almost a century, In Abwesenheit starts from the beginnings of surrealist photography in the 1920s and moves forward by way of the black and white photographs of the 1960s and 1970s through to contemporary photography. The presented works are united in their engagement with questions of absence and void. They pose a wide range of questions, interrogating the physical qualities of photography and its technical requirements, as well as broader aspects such as speculative fiction, belonging, nostalgia and ambiguity.

Sammlung Philara

Installation view: Philara Collection, Düsseldorf © the artist and Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, photo: Kai Werner Schmidt
Installation view: Philara Collection, Düsseldorf © the artist and Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

RINEKE DIJKSTRA, RICHARD PRINCE, THOMAS STRUTH et al.

This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection (group show)
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
19 October 2023 – 7 April 2024

Thomas Struth, Hermitage 2, St. Petersburg,  2005, © Thomas Struth, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
Thomas Struth, Hermitage 2, St. Petersburg, 2005, © Thomas Struth, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

Works by Rineke Dijkstra, Richard Prince and Thomas Struth will be on view at Museum Brandhorst as part of a major presentation of international photographs, generously donated to the museum’s holdings by Eva Felten. Amassed since the late 1980s, Felten’s collection primarily focuses on depictions of people, comprising over 1050 works by 134 artists. Highlights from the collection will be presented in the exhibition, curated by Monika Bayer-Wermuth.

Museum Brandhorst

Thomas Struth, Hermitage 2, St. Petersburg,  2005, © Thomas Struth, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
Thomas Struth, Hermitage 2, St. Petersburg, 2005, © Thomas Struth, courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

THOMAS STRUTH et al.

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.

National Portrait Gallery

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 et al.

The Lives of Documents, Photography as Project (group show)
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
2 May 2023 – 3 March 2024

Photo: © Thomas Struth
Photo: © Thomas Struth

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

Photo: © Thomas Struth
Photo: © Thomas Struth

THOMAS STRUTH

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