THOMAS STRUTH et al.

On View: Encounters with the Photographic (group show)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
4 July – 12 October 2025

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Thomas Struth, Art Institute of Chicago 2, Chicago 1990, 1990 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Art Institute of Chicago 2, Chicago 1990, 1990 © Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth’s work will be featured in On View: Encounters with the Photographic, at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. The Ann and Jürgen Wilde Foundation and the Collection of Photography and Time-Based Media are presenting a joint overview of their holdings in one exhibition for the first time. Bringing together some 250 works by more than 50 artists, the exhibition highlights key moments in 20th and 21st-century artistic photography, including both core pieces and recent acquisitions. Curated by Simone Förster and Franziska Kunze, this exhibtion presents the medium of photography as a powerful art form that shapes visual perception and influences current discourses.

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Thomas Struth, Art Institute of Chicago 2, Chicago 1990, 1990 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Art Institute of Chicago 2, Chicago 1990, 1990 © Thomas Struth

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MATTHEW BARNEY, KATHARINA GROSSE, THOMAS STRUTH et al.

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
12 June 2026 – ongoing

Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth

Works by Matthew Barney, Katharina Grosse and Thomas Struth are included in A Thousand Times Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Marking the museum’s 30th anniversary, this exhibition presents a new iteration of the collection focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Featuring over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and video installations, the exhibition reflects Berlin’s myth of hedonism and subculture in an international context.

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Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum I, Berlin, 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth

THOMAS STRUTH et al.

fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space, Vienna
29 May – 13 September 2026

Thomas Struth, Kreuzung alte Hauptstrasse, Yamaguchi 1986, 1986 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Kreuzung alte Hauptstrasse, Yamaguchi 1986, 1986 © Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth’s photographs are included in the group exhibition Passants parmi les Pierres at fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space, Vienna. Curated by German photographer Thomas Demand, the exhibition is dedicated to representations of the relationship between the individual, architecture and public space, featuring photographs and films with text contributions by Austrian author Clemens J. Setz.

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Thomas Struth, Kreuzung alte Hauptstrasse, Yamaguchi 1986, 1986 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Kreuzung alte Hauptstrasse, Yamaguchi 1986, 1986 © Thomas Struth

THOMAS STRUTH et al.

Civilization – Our Life in Focus (group show)
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
13 March – 19 July 2026

Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth’s work features in the group exhibition Civilization – Our Life in Focus at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Bringing together works by approximately 100 celebrated photographers, the exhibtion presents a multilayered portrait of contemporary society, drawing on both artistic and documentary approaches to the medium. Themes of family, leisure, work, and consumption are set against images of alienation, crime, environmental degradation, social fragmentation, and war. Collectively, these photographs offer a portrait of civilisation that is at once familiar and unsettling, articulated through the visual language of photography.

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Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum 1, Berlin 2001, 2001 © Thomas Struth

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Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, New York
21 October 2025

Photo:  © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation
Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

We congratulate Thomas Struth on being awarded the Soane Honors Award for Photography.

Photo:  © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation
Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

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.

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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

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