Since the late 70's, Thomas Struth has been capturing our time, reconciling forms of documentation and contemplation: the world today as seen in empty streets of different cities, cultural venues, worship scenes, but also nature, family portraits, and more recently industrial and technological locations, often underlining the relationship with the sublime. The examination of different situations and their impact on people's way of acting is typical of Thomas Struth's work.
On his recent work Struth says:
"While working on the photographs of technology I did three pictures that had to do with medical situations—operations in which the human body and technology really came close together—so in a way I was already working close to death. In the process of making one of the pictures I met someone who told me about the Leibniz Institute for wildlife research in Berlin and showed me some photos of a crocodile and a tiger being dissected. It really fascinated me, so one day I went there and met with a biologist and started making these pictures. They’re a memento mori, a reflection on mortality, which is something artists make at certain moments in their lives. Life is limited, and to be alive is a gift."
On his recent work Struth says:
"While working on the photographs of technology I did three pictures that had to do with medical situations—operations in which the human body and technology really came close together—so in a way I was already working close to death. In the process of making one of the pictures I met someone who told me about the Leibniz Institute for wildlife research in Berlin and showed me some photos of a crocodile and a tiger being dissected. It really fascinated me, so one day I went there and met with a biologist and started making these pictures. They’re a memento mori, a reflection on mortality, which is something artists make at certain moments in their lives. Life is limited, and to be alive is a gift."
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Thomas Struth is one of the most important and influential photographic artists working today. A child of post-World War II Germany, Struth started out photographing the reconstructed streets in his hometown of Dusseldorf. Within a few years he was travelling the world to photograph city streets across the globe as a way of reflecting the societies that created them.
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De Keuze van... Margitte Verwoerdt
I think Thomas Struth is a top photographer. He works in series and really constructs a certain image, without mainly staging. His photos of groups of museum visitors standing at iconic artworks - in a time before Instagram - or his timeless urban photos are beautiful. His more recent series of dead animals from a research center in Berlin, where the animals are lying on a sort of operating table, are also great. It seems like the animals are sleeping. It is a kind of representation of the age-old theme of memento mori.
Margitte Verwoerdt (kunsthistorica, zelfstandig adviseur en curator)
In museum collection:
Huis Marseille
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museum De Pont
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Kröller-Müller Museum
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
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THOMAS STRUTH (1954 Born in Geldern, Germany)
Lives and works in Berlin
1973-1980 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
1978 New York Scholarship from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1980-1982 Civil Service in a Community Center
1993-1996 Professor of Photography at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
1997 "Spectrum" International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen
2014 The Royal Institute of British Architects awards Honorary Fellowship (Hon FRIBA) for contribution to architecture
2016 Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
SOLO
2019
Thomas Struth, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Nature & Politics, MAST Foundation
Composition '19 Thomas Struth in der Hilti Art Foundation
2018
andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2017
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Nature & Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
Figure Ground, Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
Nature & Politics, Moody Center for the Arts - Rice University, Houston
2016
Nature & Politics, Museum Folkwang, Essen (traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; High Museum, Atlanta) (catalogue)
2015
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan
Marian Goodman, London
2014
Thomas Struth – Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rineke Dijkstra & Thomas Struth: Seeing, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Cristina Iglesias & Thomas Struth, Ivory Press, Madrid
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Five Works, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2013
Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen / Eifel
2012
St. Petersburg, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich
Galleri K, Oslo
2011
Thomas Struth, Fotografien 1978 – 2010, Museu Serralves, Porto; traveled from: Whitechapel Gallery, London; K20, Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (catalogue)
2010
Situation Kunst, Bochum
Thomas Struth, Korea 2007 – 2010, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
New Works, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2009
Paradises, Frieze Art Fair 2009 - DB VIP Lounge, London
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
2008
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRe, Naples
Familienleben, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; traveled to: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (catalogue)
Family Portraits, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2007
Making Time, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Making Time, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Making Time, Museo del Prado, Madrid (catalogue)
2006
Thomas Struth – Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Xippas, Athens
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
2005
Audience, Read This Like Seeing It For The First Time, (Video work in collaboration with The Bern Academy of Music) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Museum Photographs 1987 – 2004, Galleri K, Oslo
Audience, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Imágenes el Perú, Museo de Arte Lima, Lima
Arbeiten aus Peru, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Audience, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2004
Pergamon Museum I-VI, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (catalogue)
Une Heure: Video Portraits, CAPC - Musée d' Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2003
1977-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cities, Marian Goodmann Gallery, Paris
Strassen, Galleri K, Oslo
Pergamon Musum I-VI, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
2002
Pergamon I – IV, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1977-2002, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
New Pictures from Paradise, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca (catalogue)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2001
Pictures from the Dandelion Room, Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
2000
My Portrait, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;
Galleri K, Oslo (catalogue)
Galerie Shimada, Tokyo
1999
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Still, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris Gallery Shimada, Tokyo
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
New Pictures from Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
1998
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Still, Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Centro Galego de Are Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
Nouveau Portraits, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
1997
Face to Face (with Luo Yongijn), Fine Arts Foundation of Beijing; International Art Palace, Peking (catalogue)
Portraits, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf (with Cindy Sherman)
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Nieuw Werk, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1996
Valocuvia Fotografier, Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki (catalogue)
Galerie Shimada, Tokyo
1995
Strangers and Friends, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
Strassen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Oeuvre récentes, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Landschaften, Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1994
Strangers and Friends, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
1993
Museum Photographs, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Photographien aus Deutschland, Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1992
Portrait, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (catalogue)
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1991
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
House-Street-Individual-Group Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1990
Photographs, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
Portrait and Museum Photographs, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Giovanni Minelli, Paris
Urbi et Orbis, Paris
1989
The Clocktower, New York (with Andreas Gursky)
Halle Sud, Geneva
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Neue Bilder, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1988
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Bruxelles
Neapel and Tokyo, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (with Siah Armajani)
1987
Unconscious Places, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Münster (with Siah Armajani); Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue)
Tokyo und Münster, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1986
Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1985
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
1980
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (with Roswitha Ronkholz)
1978
PS1 - Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
GROUP
2019
This Place, Jüdisches Museum Berlin
America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
The Lie of the Land, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Titian and the Renaissance in Venice, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
»Stadtbilder«, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2018
The Flâneur, From Impressionism to the Present, Kunst Museum Bonn
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, Florida
True Stories. A Show Related to an Era - The Eighties, curated by Peter Pakesch, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Ways of Seeing, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Une collection de photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Nasca, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Light Sensitive 2: Photography from the Schaufler Collection, SCHAUWERK, Sindelfingen
German Art, Galleri K, Oslo
Résonance - Partie 2, Frac Normandie, Rouen
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Die andere Hälfte, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Bernd, Hilla and the Others: Photography from Düsseldorf, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Marian Goodman Gallery, London
This Place, The Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton; University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
2017
Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (catalogue)
Beyond Nature, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
German Encounters - Contemporary Masterworks from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Garage Gallery, Doha Fire Station, Qatar Museums, Doha
Shared Space: A New Era, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Language of Photography and Düsseldorf School, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
VV.AA. Displays of Affection I: Cartografiar la memoria, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona
The Power of Images, MAST Foundation, Bologna
Oracle, The Broad, Los Angeles
Photographs Become Pictures, Städel Museum, Frankfurt a.M.
The Garden - End of Times; Beginning of Times: #1 The Past, ARoS, Aarhus
SNAP. Documentary and portrait photography from the collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Territories: Photography, Space, and Power, The Ringling, Sarasota
Lübeck Sammelt I, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck
The End of an Age, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
2016
Sammlung Viehof - Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Elective Affinities - German Art Since The Late 1960s, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
New York Topographies: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, Thomas Struth, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2015
Anatomie de l´automate, La Panacée, Montpellier
On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
After Eden, la maison rouge, Paris
Art and Machine, Musée des Confluences, Lyon
Travelling the World. Art from Germany, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Dialog der Meisterwerke. Hoher Besuch zum Jubiläum, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
PAIR(s), Maison Particulaire, Brussels
The City: Works from the Collection, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
Eppur si muove, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
No Museum, No Life?, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Mijn Vlakke Land. On photography and landscape, FotoMuseum Provincie, Antwerpen
Harmony and Transition. Reflecting Chinese Landscape, Marta Herford, Herford
Checkpoint California, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm
ARStronomy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Hamster-Hipster-Handy. Im Bann des Mobiltelefons, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
ROAD ATLAS (Street Photography from the DZ Bank Art Collection), DZ Bank Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
Constructing Worlds (2/3), Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm
Il Divino. Homage to Michelangelo, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
FACES NOW: European Portrait Photography since 1990, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (traveled to Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, 2015; Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, 2015)
Landscape in my Mind, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
2014
The Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography, New York Public Library (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building), New York
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Photography. International, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart
Lumières: Carte Blance à Christian Lacroix, Musee Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Collecting Mode, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (travels to Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2015)
This Place, DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague (traveling to Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, 2015; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2015; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 2016)
Facts and Fictions. Photography from the UniCredit Art Collection, Multimedia Art Museum | Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Secret Passions. Private Flemish Collections, Lille3000, Lille
Time Present - Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (travels to: National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2015; Seoul, 2015; Hara Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
Branching Out, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen
Constructing Worlds - Photography and Architecture, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art´s Truly a World Treasure, Selected Works from Yageo Foundation
Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Paths of German Art from 1949 to the present, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Enthüllung und Verzauberung. Ankäufe und Schenkungen aus der Fotografischen Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Menschen vor Flusslandschaft, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (catalogue)
Family Matters - Portraits and experiences of family today, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence
Vom Aussenraum zum Innenraum, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam e.V., Potsdam
Getting Reacquainted with Michelangelo, Accademia Gallery, Florence
Temi & Variazioni. L'impero della Luce, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2013
City Self, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
7. Lanzarote Art Biennale, Fundación Helge Achenbach and Sammlung Rheingold, Lanzarote
Expression, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hongkong
REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Weltreise. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs, ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Industrial Worlds 013, Mast Foundation, Bologna
Minimal resistance. Between late modernism and globalisation: artistic practices during 80s and 90s, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Urban, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella
The Mediterranean Experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for the circulation of ideas and meaning, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (catalogue)
Des images comme des oiseaux, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Tour Panorama, Marseille (catalogue)
Moving Norman Foster on Art, Carré d'art - Musée d'art Contemporain, Nîmes (catalogue)
Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
German Art 2013, Galleri K, Oslo
Generosity: Geschenke und Leihgaben aus der Sammlung des ZKM, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Staring Back, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei (catalogue)
Stadt in Sicht. Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Paisaje 1969-2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; traveled to: Landesgalerie - Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz (catalogue)
Landmark. The Fields of Photography, Positive View Foundation / Somerset House, London (catalogue)
How Is the World? Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ein Drittel Weiß, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Caroliner Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2012
Living / Loss, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (catalogue)
Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; traveled to: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Hayward Gallery and Southbank Centre, London (catalogue)
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London; traveled to: CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona; CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid (catalogue)
Gustave Caillebotte. Ein Impressionist und die Fotografie, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main; traveled to: Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (catalogue)
Aneignung der Gegenwart, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig
Gaze – The Changing Face of Portrait Photography, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Common Ground, La Biennale di Venezia - Architecture Biennale, Venice (catalogue)
Juwelen im Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Rhode Island School of Design - Museum of Art, Providence
Von Sinnen. Wahrnehmung in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (catalogue)
Road Atlas. Straßenfotografien aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraft Cottbus, Cottbus (catalogue)
Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco/de Young Museum, San Francisco (catalogue)
Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)
Beyond the wall, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (catalogue)
Arte torna Arte - La contemporaneita e le sue radici, Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence (catalogue)
La Triennale - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
German Photography 1960 - 2012: A Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hongkong
Der Mensch und seine Objekte, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (catalogue)
The Queen: Art and Image, National Museum Wales, Cardiff; traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
Déja Vue - Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Press Play. L'arte e i mezzi d'informazione, Fondazione sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Darren Bader: Images, P.S.1, New York
Stadt und Land, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2011
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover
Nachrichten aus der Zwischenstadt, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
German Art, Galleri K, Oslo
Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition, Passage de Retz, Paris (catalogue)
De-Natured: German art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger: Selections from the James Keith, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill (catalogue)
Atget and Contemporary Photography, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York
Ruhrblicke – Wanderausstellung, Stadtmuseum Hattingen, Hattingen (catalogue)
Menschenbilder, Grosse Kunstschau Worpswede, Worpswede
Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rom
Street Life and Home Stories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Villa Stuck Museum, Munich
Measuring the World. Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)
Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (catalogue)
Road Atlas, Strassenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Stiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit - Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1970 bis heute, Akademie Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Wonder (Miracle). Art, Science and Religion from the 4th Century to the Present, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; traveled to: Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (catalogue)
Märklin World, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (catalogue)
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America, Museo del Novecento, Mailand; traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Through the Looking Brain, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St.Gallen; traveled to: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
Lichtempfindlich-Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
The Queen: Art and Image, Ulster Museum, Belfast; traveled to: National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
Volume! Works from the collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela; traveled to: BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (catalogue)
Erschaute Bauten - Architektur im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2010
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hyper Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna
Auswertung der Flugdaten, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Situation Kunst - Fotografische Installation, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum Weitmar
2009
Verschwindende Landschaften / vanishing landscapes, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Düsseldorfer Schule - Photographien von 1970 bis 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schimer, Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
PastPresentFuture - Highlights from UniCredit Group Collection, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Beautiful Fiction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
Urban Spaces, Geography, Identity, Urbanism, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires
Horizons, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
Sechzig Jahre - Sechzig Werke, Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Michelangelo - La pietà Rondanini e il Crocifisso ritrovato, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
Terra di nessuno, Museo Risi, Napels
Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister, MoMA, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museo di arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Obdachlose fotografieren Passanten, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2008
Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Museum as a Medium, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo
Real, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
From Velázquez to Picasso: Las Meninas, Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Sichtbarwerden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Fluid Street, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Kavalierstart 1978-1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
God & Goods, Villa Manin, Passariano
Dürer und... Künstler der Akademie, Akademie Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
Inside Architecture, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Art for the Spirit – Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
2007
Private/Public, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Visit(e). Werke aus der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (catalogue)
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Spectacular City – Photographing the Future, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2006
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wrestle, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
A Tribute to Cézanne, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York
Das Junge Rheinland, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
FASTER!BIGGER!BETTER!, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Eldorado, Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
click doubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Why Pictures Now, Museum moderner Kunst,Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Tiefenschärfe: Bilder von Menschen, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
A Curator’s Eye, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel
Nature Attitudes, TB A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Cinemas, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
7th Wing East Collection: Culture Bond, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London
More than meets the eye, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey
Edward Steichen Photography Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Spectacular City, Netherlands Architecture Insitute, Rotterdam; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Seventy-five at 75, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Les Peintres de la vie moderne: Donation – Collection Photographie de la Caisse des Depôts, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Thomas Struth / Rineke Dijkstra, Xippas Gallery, Athens
Os Anos 80, Museo Serralves, Porto
Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico
Der Himmel auf Erden: Der Blick des Künstlers auf den Garten vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Städel, Frankfurt/Main
2005
Blumenstück: Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Beyond Delirious / Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
Contemporary Voices - Works from the UBS Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
25 Jahre Deutsche Bank: 25th Anniversary of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Some Trees, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Kreuz und Kruzifix, Zeichen und Bild, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Freising
Gerhard Richter: Ohne Farbe, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego
Family Pictures, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano
2004
Forme per il David, Galleria dell' Accademia, Firenze
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Berlin Biennale, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Stephen Shore / Thomas Struth, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Love and Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan, Villa Manin - Centro d' Arte Contemporanea, Coroipa
Plum Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
German Art, Altana Kulturforum at Städel, Frankfurt/Main
20 Years Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
ArchiSkulptur, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
Território Livre, 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhâo Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo
2003
actionbutton, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
August Sander / Thomas Struth, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Franz von Lenbach und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Schachtelhalm und Löwenzahn. Vom Herbarisieren und Fokussieren, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz
Read This Like Seen For The First Time, Biennale Bern, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Bern
Affinities...Now ...and Then, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
The Big Picture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
German Art Now, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Explosive Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
2002
Lila, weiß und andere Farben, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Wallflowers: Große Fotografien, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Sammlungspräsentation, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Heute bis Jetzt: Im Labor der Bilder, Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
AUGENBLICK Foto/Kunst, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (catalogue)
Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden (catalogue)
Open City: Aspects of Street Photography 1950-2000, Museum de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Passenger: The Viewer as Participant, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
L'immagine ritrovata / The Image regained: Painting and Photography from the Eighties to Today, Museo Cantonale d' Arte, Lugano
2001
En pleine terre, Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel
Ex(O)Dus, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Abbild, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (catalogue)
Museum der Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Instant City, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
2000
The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Milano senza confine, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht: Architekturfotographie, Museum Bochum, Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow (catalogue)
How you look at it: Photography in the 20th Century, EXPO 2000 – Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover; Städel, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
5th Bienale de Lyon, Lyon
Architecture: Hot and Cold, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
1999
Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalogue)
The Museum as Muse: Artists reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography, Architectual Association, London (catalogue)
Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
L'art médecin Musée Picasso, Antibes
The Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet, Umeå
1998
Art of the Eighties, Culturgest, Lisbon
Urban, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
The 11th Sydney Biennale, Sydney
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1997
Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (catalogue)
In visible light, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland nach 1945, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
1996
Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Distanz und Nähe, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi (catalogue)
1994
The Epic and the Everyday, Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
Who's Looking at the Family?, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1993
Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
Distanz und Nähe, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (catalogue)
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel (catalogue)
Mehr als ein Bild, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Family Album: Changing Perspective of Family Portrait, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (catalogue)
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
1991
Aus der Distanz, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
The Carnegie International, CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Typologies, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Sguarda di Medusa, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
1990
Aperto '90, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
de Afstand, Witte de With - Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Images in Transition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Weitersehen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1989
Another Objectivity, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (catalogue)
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Prospect Fotografie, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
1988
La Razon Revisada / Reason Revised, Fondacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid & Barcelona
Another Objectivity, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1987
Skulptur Projekte Münster '87, Münster (catalogue)
1986
Standort Düsseldorf '86, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsselorf (catalogue)
Fotografie und Skulptur, Studio Hansaallee, Düsseldorf
1985
New York State University Gallery, New York (with Susan Grayson & Joseph Bartscherer)
1981
Erweiterte Fotografie, 5th Internationale Biennale, Vienna, Secession, Vienna
1979
In Deutschland: Aspekte gegenwärtiger Dokumentarfotografie in Deutschland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Schlaglichter: Junge Kunst im Rheinland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
Lives and works in Berlin
1973-1980 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
1978 New York Scholarship from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1980-1982 Civil Service in a Community Center
1993-1996 Professor of Photography at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
1997 "Spectrum" International Prize for Photography, Stiftung Niedersachsen
2014 The Royal Institute of British Architects awards Honorary Fellowship (Hon FRIBA) for contribution to architecture
2016 Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
SOLO
2019
Thomas Struth, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Nature & Politics, MAST Foundation
Composition '19 Thomas Struth in der Hilti Art Foundation
2018
andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2017
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Nature & Politics, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
Figure Ground, Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
Nature & Politics, Moody Center for the Arts - Rice University, Houston
2016
Nature & Politics, Museum Folkwang, Essen (traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; High Museum, Atlanta) (catalogue)
2015
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan
Marian Goodman, London
2014
Thomas Struth – Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rineke Dijkstra & Thomas Struth: Seeing, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Cristina Iglesias & Thomas Struth, Ivory Press, Madrid
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Five Works, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2013
Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen / Eifel
2012
St. Petersburg, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich
Galleri K, Oslo
2011
Thomas Struth, Fotografien 1978 – 2010, Museu Serralves, Porto; traveled from: Whitechapel Gallery, London; K20, Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (catalogue)
2010
Situation Kunst, Bochum
Thomas Struth, Korea 2007 – 2010, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
New Works, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2009
Paradises, Frieze Art Fair 2009 - DB VIP Lounge, London
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
2008
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRe, Naples
Familienleben, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; traveled to: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (catalogue)
Family Portraits, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2007
Making Time, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Making Time, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Making Time, Museo del Prado, Madrid (catalogue)
2006
Thomas Struth – Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Xippas, Athens
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
2005
Audience, Read This Like Seeing It For The First Time, (Video work in collaboration with The Bern Academy of Music) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Museum Photographs 1987 – 2004, Galleri K, Oslo
Audience, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Imágenes el Perú, Museo de Arte Lima, Lima
Arbeiten aus Peru, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Audience, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2004
Pergamon Museum I-VI, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (catalogue)
Une Heure: Video Portraits, CAPC - Musée d' Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2003
1977-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Cities, Marian Goodmann Gallery, Paris
Strassen, Galleri K, Oslo
Pergamon Musum I-VI, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
2002
Pergamon I – IV, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1977-2002, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
New Pictures from Paradise, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca (catalogue)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2001
Pictures from the Dandelion Room, Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
2000
My Portrait, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;
Galleri K, Oslo (catalogue)
Galerie Shimada, Tokyo
1999
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Still, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris Gallery Shimada, Tokyo
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
New Pictures from Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
1998
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Still, Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nîmes; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Centro Galego de Are Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
Nouveau Portraits, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
1997
Face to Face (with Luo Yongijn), Fine Arts Foundation of Beijing; International Art Palace, Peking (catalogue)
Portraits, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf (with Cindy Sherman)
The Berlin-Project (with Klaus vom Bruch), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Nieuw Werk, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1996
Valocuvia Fotografier, Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki (catalogue)
Galerie Shimada, Tokyo
1995
Strangers and Friends, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (catalogue)
Strassen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Oeuvre récentes, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Landschaften, Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1994
Strangers and Friends, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
1993
Museum Photographs, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)
Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan
Photographien aus Deutschland, Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1992
Portrait, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (catalogue)
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1991
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
House-Street-Individual-Group Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1990
Photographs, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
Portrait and Museum Photographs, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Giovanni Minelli, Paris
Urbi et Orbis, Paris
1989
The Clocktower, New York (with Andreas Gursky)
Halle Sud, Geneva
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Neue Bilder, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1988
Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Bruxelles
Neapel and Tokyo, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (with Siah Armajani)
1987
Unconscious Places, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster, Münster (with Siah Armajani); Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue)
Tokyo und Münster, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1986
Galerie Shimada, Yamaguchi
1985
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
1980
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (with Roswitha Ronkholz)
1978
PS1 - Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
GROUP
2019
This Place, Jüdisches Museum Berlin
America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
The Lie of the Land, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Titian and the Renaissance in Venice, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
»Stadtbilder«, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2018
The Flâneur, From Impressionism to the Present, Kunst Museum Bonn
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, Florida
True Stories. A Show Related to an Era - The Eighties, curated by Peter Pakesch, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Ways of Seeing, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Une collection de photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Nasca, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Light Sensitive 2: Photography from the Schaufler Collection, SCHAUWERK, Sindelfingen
German Art, Galleri K, Oslo
Résonance - Partie 2, Frac Normandie, Rouen
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
Die andere Hälfte, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Bernd, Hilla and the Others: Photography from Düsseldorf, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Marian Goodman Gallery, London
This Place, The Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton; University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
2017
Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (catalogue)
Beyond Nature, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
German Encounters - Contemporary Masterworks from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Garage Gallery, Doha Fire Station, Qatar Museums, Doha
Shared Space: A New Era, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Language of Photography and Düsseldorf School, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
VV.AA. Displays of Affection I: Cartografiar la memoria, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona
The Power of Images, MAST Foundation, Bologna
Oracle, The Broad, Los Angeles
Photographs Become Pictures, Städel Museum, Frankfurt a.M.
The Garden - End of Times; Beginning of Times: #1 The Past, ARoS, Aarhus
SNAP. Documentary and portrait photography from the collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Territories: Photography, Space, and Power, The Ringling, Sarasota
Lübeck Sammelt I, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck
The End of an Age, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
2016
Sammlung Viehof - Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Elective Affinities - German Art Since The Late 1960s, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
New York Topographies: Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nicholas Nixon, Thomas Struth, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2015
Anatomie de l´automate, La Panacée, Montpellier
On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
After Eden, la maison rouge, Paris
Art and Machine, Musée des Confluences, Lyon
Travelling the World. Art from Germany, Museum of Art, Ein Harod
Dialog der Meisterwerke. Hoher Besuch zum Jubiläum, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
PAIR(s), Maison Particulaire, Brussels
The City: Works from the Collection, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca
Eppur si muove, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
No Museum, No Life?, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Mijn Vlakke Land. On photography and landscape, FotoMuseum Provincie, Antwerpen
Harmony and Transition. Reflecting Chinese Landscape, Marta Herford, Herford
Checkpoint California, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
The Order of Things, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm
ARStronomy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Hamster-Hipster-Handy. Im Bann des Mobiltelefons, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
ROAD ATLAS (Street Photography from the DZ Bank Art Collection), DZ Bank Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
Constructing Worlds (2/3), Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm
Il Divino. Homage to Michelangelo, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
FACES NOW: European Portrait Photography since 1990, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (traveled to Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, 2015; Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, 2015)
Landscape in my Mind, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
2014
The Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography, New York Public Library (Stephen A. Schwarzman Building), New York
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Photography. International, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart
Lumières: Carte Blance à Christian Lacroix, Musee Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Collecting Mode, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (travels to Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2015)
This Place, DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague (traveling to Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, 2015; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2015; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 2016)
Facts and Fictions. Photography from the UniCredit Art Collection, Multimedia Art Museum | Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Secret Passions. Private Flemish Collections, Lille3000, Lille
Time Present - Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (travels to: National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, 2015; Seoul, 2015; Hara Museum, Tokyo, 2015)
Branching Out, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen
Constructing Worlds - Photography and Architecture, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art´s Truly a World Treasure, Selected Works from Yageo Foundation
Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Paths of German Art from 1949 to the present, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Enthüllung und Verzauberung. Ankäufe und Schenkungen aus der Fotografischen Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Menschen vor Flusslandschaft, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (catalogue)
Family Matters - Portraits and experiences of family today, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence
Vom Aussenraum zum Innenraum, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam e.V., Potsdam
Getting Reacquainted with Michelangelo, Accademia Gallery, Florence
Temi & Variazioni. L'impero della Luce, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2013
City Self, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
7. Lanzarote Art Biennale, Fundación Helge Achenbach and Sammlung Rheingold, Lanzarote
Expression, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hongkong
REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Fading Nights, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Weltreise. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs, ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Industrial Worlds 013, Mast Foundation, Bologna
Minimal resistance. Between late modernism and globalisation: artistic practices during 80s and 90s, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Urban, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella
The Mediterranean Experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for the circulation of ideas and meaning, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (catalogue)
Des images comme des oiseaux, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Tour Panorama, Marseille (catalogue)
Moving Norman Foster on Art, Carré d'art - Musée d'art Contemporain, Nîmes (catalogue)
Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
German Art 2013, Galleri K, Oslo
Generosity: Geschenke und Leihgaben aus der Sammlung des ZKM, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Staring Back, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei (catalogue)
Stadt in Sicht. Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Paisaje 1969-2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden, Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; traveled to: Landesgalerie - Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz (catalogue)
Landmark. The Fields of Photography, Positive View Foundation / Somerset House, London (catalogue)
How Is the World? Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ein Drittel Weiß, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Caroliner Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2012
Living / Loss, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (catalogue)
Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; traveled to: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Hayward Gallery and Southbank Centre, London (catalogue)
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London; traveled to: CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona; CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid (catalogue)
Gustave Caillebotte. Ein Impressionist und die Fotografie, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main; traveled to: Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (catalogue)
Aneignung der Gegenwart, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig
Gaze – The Changing Face of Portrait Photography, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
Common Ground, La Biennale di Venezia - Architecture Biennale, Venice (catalogue)
Juwelen im Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Rhode Island School of Design - Museum of Art, Providence
Von Sinnen. Wahrnehmung in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (catalogue)
Road Atlas. Straßenfotografien aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraft Cottbus, Cottbus (catalogue)
Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco/de Young Museum, San Francisco (catalogue)
Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)
Beyond the wall, Castello Di Rivoli, Turin
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (catalogue)
Arte torna Arte - La contemporaneita e le sue radici, Galleria dell’ Accademia, Florence (catalogue)
La Triennale - Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (catalogue)
German Photography 1960 - 2012: A Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hongkong
Der Mensch und seine Objekte, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen (catalogue)
The Queen: Art and Image, National Museum Wales, Cardiff; traveled to: National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
Déja Vue - Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Press Play. L'arte e i mezzi d'informazione, Fondazione sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Darren Bader: Images, P.S.1, New York
Stadt und Land, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2011
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover
Nachrichten aus der Zwischenstadt, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
German Art, Galleri K, Oslo
Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition, Passage de Retz, Paris (catalogue)
De-Natured: German art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger: Selections from the James Keith, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill (catalogue)
Atget and Contemporary Photography, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York
Ruhrblicke – Wanderausstellung, Stadtmuseum Hattingen, Hattingen (catalogue)
Menschenbilder, Grosse Kunstschau Worpswede, Worpswede
Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rom
Street Life and Home Stories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Villa Stuck Museum, Munich
Measuring the World. Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)
Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (catalogue)
Road Atlas, Strassenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Stiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit - Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1970 bis heute, Akademie Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Wonder (Miracle). Art, Science and Religion from the 4th Century to the Present, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; traveled to: Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (catalogue)
Märklin World, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (catalogue)
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America, Museo del Novecento, Mailand; traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Through the Looking Brain, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St.Gallen; traveled to: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
Lichtempfindlich-Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
The Queen: Art and Image, Ulster Museum, Belfast; traveled to: National Museum Wales, Cardiff; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; National Portrait Gallery, London (catalogue)
Volume! Works from the collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela; traveled to: BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (catalogue)
Erschaute Bauten - Architektur im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2010
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hyper Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna
Auswertung der Flugdaten, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Situation Kunst - Fotografische Installation, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum Weitmar
2009
Verschwindende Landschaften / vanishing landscapes, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Düsseldorfer Schule - Photographien von 1970 bis 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schimer, Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
PastPresentFuture - Highlights from UniCredit Group Collection, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Beautiful Fiction, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
Urban Spaces, Geography, Identity, Urbanism, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires
Horizons, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
Sechzig Jahre - Sechzig Werke, Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Michelangelo - La pietà Rondanini e il Crocifisso ritrovato, Castello Sforzesco, Milan
Terra di nessuno, Museo Risi, Napels
Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister, MoMA, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Museo di arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Obdachlose fotografieren Passanten, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2008
Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Museum as a Medium, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo
Real, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
From Velázquez to Picasso: Las Meninas, Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Sichtbarwerden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Fluid Street, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Kavalierstart 1978-1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
God & Goods, Villa Manin, Passariano
Dürer und... Künstler der Akademie, Akademie Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
Inside Architecture, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Art for the Spirit – Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
All Inclusive – A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
2007
Private/Public, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Visit(e). Werke aus der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (catalogue)
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Spectacular City – Photographing the Future, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2006
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wrestle, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
A Tribute to Cézanne, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York
Das Junge Rheinland, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
FASTER!BIGGER!BETTER!, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Eldorado, Mudam – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
click doubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Why Pictures Now, Museum moderner Kunst,Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Tiefenschärfe: Bilder von Menschen, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
A Curator’s Eye, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel
Nature Attitudes, TB A21 – Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Cinemas, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
7th Wing East Collection: Culture Bond, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London
More than meets the eye, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey
Edward Steichen Photography Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Spectacular City, Netherlands Architecture Insitute, Rotterdam; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Seventy-five at 75, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Les Peintres de la vie moderne: Donation – Collection Photographie de la Caisse des Depôts, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Thomas Struth / Rineke Dijkstra, Xippas Gallery, Athens
Os Anos 80, Museo Serralves, Porto
Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico
Der Himmel auf Erden: Der Blick des Künstlers auf den Garten vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Städel, Frankfurt/Main
2005
Blumenstück: Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Beyond Delirious / Indeterminate States, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
Contemporary Voices - Works from the UBS Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
25 Jahre Deutsche Bank: 25th Anniversary of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Some Trees, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Kreuz und Kruzifix, Zeichen und Bild, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Freising
Gerhard Richter: Ohne Farbe, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego
Family Pictures, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano
2004
Forme per il David, Galleria dell' Accademia, Firenze
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Berlin Biennale, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Stephen Shore / Thomas Struth, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Love and Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan, Villa Manin - Centro d' Arte Contemporanea, Coroipa
Plum Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
German Art, Altana Kulturforum at Städel, Frankfurt/Main
20 Years Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
ArchiSkulptur, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
Território Livre, 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhâo Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo
2003
actionbutton, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
August Sander / Thomas Struth, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
Franz von Lenbach und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Schachtelhalm und Löwenzahn. Vom Herbarisieren und Fokussieren, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz
Read This Like Seen For The First Time, Biennale Bern, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Bern
Affinities...Now ...and Then, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
The Big Picture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
German Art Now, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Explosive Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
2002
Lila, weiß und andere Farben, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Wallflowers: Große Fotografien, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Sammlungspräsentation, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Heute bis Jetzt: Im Labor der Bilder, Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
AUGENBLICK Foto/Kunst, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (catalogue)
Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden (catalogue)
Open City: Aspects of Street Photography 1950-2000, Museum de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Passenger: The Viewer as Participant, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
L'immagine ritrovata / The Image regained: Painting and Photography from the Eighties to Today, Museo Cantonale d' Arte, Lugano
2001
En pleine terre, Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel
Ex(O)Dus, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Abbild, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz (catalogue)
Museum der Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Instant City, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
2000
The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Milano senza confine, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht: Architekturfotographie, Museum Bochum, Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow (catalogue)
How you look at it: Photography in the 20th Century, EXPO 2000 – Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover; Städel, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
5th Bienale de Lyon, Lyon
Architecture: Hot and Cold, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
1999
Seeing Time: Selection from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalogue)
The Museum as Muse: Artists reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography, Architectual Association, London (catalogue)
Apposite Opposites: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
L'art médecin Musée Picasso, Antibes
The Mirror's Edge, BildMuseet, Umeå
1998
Art of the Eighties, Culturgest, Lisbon
Urban, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
The 11th Sydney Biennale, Sydney
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1997
Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama (catalogue)
In visible light, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland nach 1945, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
1996
Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Distanz und Nähe, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi (catalogue)
1994
The Epic and the Everyday, Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
Who's Looking at the Family?, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1993
Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
Distanz und Nähe, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (catalogue)
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel (catalogue)
Mehr als ein Bild, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Family Album: Changing Perspective of Family Portrait, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (catalogue)
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
1991
Aus der Distanz, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
The Carnegie International, CMOA - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Typologies, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Sguarda di Medusa, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
1990
Aperto '90, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
de Afstand, Witte de With - Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Images in Transition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Weitersehen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1989
Another Objectivity, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (catalogue)
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Prospect Fotografie, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main
1988
La Razon Revisada / Reason Revised, Fondacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid & Barcelona
Another Objectivity, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1987
Skulptur Projekte Münster '87, Münster (catalogue)
1986
Standort Düsseldorf '86, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsselorf (catalogue)
Fotografie und Skulptur, Studio Hansaallee, Düsseldorf
1985
New York State University Gallery, New York (with Susan Grayson & Joseph Bartscherer)
1981
Erweiterte Fotografie, 5th Internationale Biennale, Vienna, Secession, Vienna
1979
In Deutschland: Aspekte gegenwärtiger Dokumentarfotografie in Deutschland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Schlaglichter: Junge Kunst im Rheinland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Bonn (catalogue)
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