Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth ( b. 1954 in Geldern, Niederrhein) is a German photographer of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. He is one of the most famous photographers of our time.

Life

Struth, born in Geldern in 1954, studied from 1973 to 1980 at the State Art Academy Dusseldorf - first painting with Gerhard Richter and Peter Kleeman, from 1976 photography with Bernd Becher. In 1978 he received from the Art Academy Dusseldorf a scholarship for the city of New York City, where he graduated with a solo exhibition at PS1. From 1993 to 1996 Struth was a professor at the State University of Design ( HfG ) in Karlsruhe holds. Struth lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin. He is married to the American writer Tara Bray Smith.

Work

Indicative of Struth's artistic practice is the work on consecutive working groups dealing with issues such as streets, people, museums and nature. Nevertheless, there remains apparent that he is dedicated to consistent and conceptually the continuation of an overall conception of the work. Most Struth photographed with a large format camera and color, where he edited his pictures hardly digitally, in contrast to, for example, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff.

Both in art criticism as well as on the art market, Thomas Struth has prevailed with the designed in the 70s and 80s working groups Unconscious places and portraits. The participation in the Venice Biennale (1990) and Documenta IX ( 1992) have consolidated its position internationally.

In the center of Struth's interest is the " precise observation " and in particular the relationship between observer and observed. Struth presents in his work groups regularly perspectives on outdated photographic subjects in question makes viewing habits and expanded in this way the photographic art concept.

To view Thomas Struth's architectural photographs squares and streets, documenting the urban development sensitive. The group of unconscious places that has emerged in cities around the world, forms an independent contribution to urban anthropology. Similarly, the artist worked in the series of landscapes: The absence of people is aware of their presence and design of the rural environment. A quasi- documentary character have also other projects of Struth such as portraits, in which the possibilities of the representability of an individual or a community to be investigated. The process of viewing is in the cycle of museum images to a vehicle that transports the viewer into each other time - spaces - other museums, fictional worlds. 2007 Struth was the first contemporary artist who has exhibited in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. For this exhibition, Struth has photographed in the Prado museum visitors.

Since 2008, the photographer sets deals with the structural elemental themes of humanity, such as industrial, research, energy and globalization. His illustrations show the-art facilities such as nuclear fusion reactors or space shuttles, which are not normally accessible to the public.

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2014: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
  • 2011: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  • 2011: Photographs 1978-2010, art collection Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
  • 2010: Photographs 1978-2010, Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 2010: New Works, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  • 2008: Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • 2008: Museo d' Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples
  • 2008: The Photographic Collection / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • 2007: Museo del Prado, Madrid
  • 2004: Pergamon Museum I-VI, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  • 2003: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • 2003: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 2002: MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2002: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
  • 2001: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  • 2000: My Portrait, National Museum of Art, Tokyo & Kyoto
  • 1998: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1997: Portraits, Sprengel Museum Hannover
  • 1995: roads, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
  • 1994: Strangers and Friends, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA
  • 1993: Photographs Museum, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 1990: Photographs, Renaissance Society, Chicago
  • 1988: Unconscious places portico, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1987: Unconscious Places, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
  • 1987: Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
  • 1980: Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich
  • 1978: P.S.1, New York

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2010: Ruhrblicke, Zollverein cube, food
  • 2010: Dreamlands, Musée National d' Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • 2009: The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
  • 2009: Düsseldorf School - Photographs 1970-2008 from the Lothar Schimer collection, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
  • 2008: Fluid Street, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
  • 2005: Contemporary Voices - Works from the UBS Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2004: 3rd Berlin Biennale, Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin
  • 2003: Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2002: Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • 2001: En pleine terre, art collection Basel
  • 1999: The Museum as Muse: Artists reflect, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1996: Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams, Kunsthalle Basel
  • 1992: Documenta IX, Kassel
  • 1990: Images in Transition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  • 1990: Aperto '90, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 1987: Skulptur.Projekte Münster '87

Catalogs (Selection )

  • Thomas Struth. Photographs 1978-2010, Dusseldorf, 2010.
  • Thomas Struth. ed. by Hans Rudolf Reust and James Lingwood. [ Hans Belting ... ], Schirmer Mosel, Munich, 2009.
  • Thomas Struth. Urban and street scenes. Architecture and Public Space in Photography of Contemporary Art, Marburg 2008.
  • Thomas Struth. Making Time, Madrid, 2007.
  • Photographs 1977-2002, Munich 2002.
  • Thomas Struth. New Pictures from Paradise, Munich 2002.
  • Insights. The 20th century in art collection Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf, Ostfildern -Ruit 2000.
  • Thomas Struth. Still, Munich 1998.
  • Thomas Struth. Portraits, Munich 1997.
  • Thomas Struth. Roads. Photography from 1976 to 1995, Cologne 1995.
  • Thomas Struth. Museum photographs, Munich 1993.
  • Thomas Struth. Unconscious Places, Bern 1987.

Literature (selection )

  • Thomas Struth: Unconscious Places, with an essay by Richard Sennett; in English. Schirmer Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0618-9. in German: ISBN 978-3-8296-0617-2.
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