Thomas Ruff b. 1958
From 1977 to 1985, Thomas Ruff studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where fellow students included Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth. He went on to spend six months at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and later held a scholarship at Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2012 a comprehensive survey was presented at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Other recent solo exhibitions include those organised by Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (CAC), Málaga; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and the Sprengel Museum, Hannover. Museum collections include the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent.
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DUSSELDORF PHOTOGRAPHY
Bernd & Hilla Becher and Beyond 4 Sep - 3 Oct 2015This autumn Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to present a major survey of photography originating from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf after 1976. The exhibition offers an opportunity to see varying...Read more -
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
An International Survey 23 Apr - 27 May 2015 -
German Photography 1960 - 2012
A Survey 1 Mar - 5 May 2012Bernd and Hilla Becher Thomas Demand Günther Förg Andreas Gursky Candida Höfer Axel Hütte Anselm Kiefer Jürgen Klauke Astrid Klein Imi Knoebel Sigmar Polke Gerhard Richter Thomas Ruff Thomas Struth...Read more -
Photography Group Exhibition
31 Mar - 7 May 2011Nobuyoshi Araki Candida Höfer Vik Muniz Thomas Ruff Hiroshi SugimotoRead more -
THOMAS RUFF
Sterne (Stars) 24 Apr - 30 Jun 2006Ben Brown Fine Arts is showing seven of Thomas Ruff's large scale Sterne (Stars) photographs in the gallery space as an installation. For this exhibition the gallery has been blackened...Read more