THOMAS STRUTH (b. 1954, Germany)

'Bunkyo Tokyo, 1999', 2010

SIGNED Color Photograph

Color Coupler Print (C-Print / Chromogenic / Ektacolor), 2010, ed. 200 (+ 100 AP). Dimensions: 7" x 5" (18 x 12.5 cm). SIGNED by artist, titled and numbered '144/200' in pencil on verso. Excellent condition with no visible defects (never framed or displayed).

Düsseldorf and Berlin based artist Thomas Struth is among the major representatives of the German photo scene. Numerous exhibitions over the past 15 years in Europe, the US, Japan, China, have earned this native of Germany's Lower Rhine region an international reputation. As early as 1992, Struth's works were on view at the documenta IX in Kassel. While to date only individual work series have been presented publicly, Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010 will be the first European representative survey of Struth's production as a whole.

Thomas Struth – who was trained at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, initially studying painting with Gerhard Richter, and photography with Bernd Becher beginning in 1976 – places exactitude of vision at the center of his aesthetic concerns. From the early Düsseldorf street scenes, to his images of the impenetrable undergrowth of the Asian jungle ("Paradises"), to the large-format museum pictures ("Audiences"), and all the way to the recent images of large-scale technical facilities: Struth repeatedly thematizes the relationship between beholder and subject. He avoids any obvious dramatization of his motifs, which he discovers on trips throughout Europe, the Americas, East Asia, and Australia. At a time when we are assaulted daily by a veritable flood of imagery, Thomas Struth is among the small number of outstanding artists who have succeeded in investing the photographic medium with a new intensity and potency.
 

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France (5/25 - 7/26)

2023
'Thomas Struth', Galerie Max Hetzler, London, UK
'Thomas Struth: Unbewusste Orte / Unconscious Places', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2022
'Thomas Struth', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
'Thomas Struth', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2019
'Thomas Struth', Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan, Fürstentum, Liechtenstein
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy

2018
'Thomas Struth: Middle East', Aspen Art Museum (AAM), Aspen, CO

2017
'Thomas Struth: New Works', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

2016
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
'Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics', Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2014
'Thomas Struth: Photographs', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2012
'Thomas Struth: St. Petersburg', Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Münich, Germany
'Thomas Struth: Photography', Galleri K, Oslo, Norway

2011
'Thomas Struth', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
'Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010', Museu Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
'Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010', Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
'Street Life and Home Stories: Photographs from the Goetz Collection' (group exhibition), Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
'Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010', Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20 Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010
'Thomas Struth', Situation Kunst - Für Max Imdahl and Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
'Thomas Struth: Korea 2007-2010', Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
'Thomas Struth', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
'Thomas Struth: Photographs 1978–2010', Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
'Thomas Struth', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

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