The Conditions of Spectrality and Spectatorship in Thomas Ruff's Photographs
Essay
Okwui Enwezor: "The Conditions of Spectrality and Spectatorship in Thomas Ruff's Photographs"
Exhibition catalogue:
Thomas Ruff — Works 1979-2011
Published by Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Munich, 2012
With texts by Okwui Enwezor and Thomas Weski
German/English
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Thomas Ruff
Exhibition 17.02 – 20.05.12
The exhibition in Haus der Kunst is the first comprehensive presentation of the works of Thomas Ruff in more than ten years. It chronologically tracks his artistic development. MORE
Withholding Images
Essay
Withholding Images MORE
Andreas Gursky
Exhibition catalogue
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Bernd und Hilla Becher
Exhibition 16.06 – 19.09.04
Bernd and Hilla Becher met in Düsseldorf at the end of the fifties and have been working together since then, for over forty years, on an archive for industrial architecture. Invariably using the neutral background of a grey and cloudless sky, they place their chosen images centre-picture and format-filling. Following previously determined criteria, the photos make up so-called "Typologies". In exhibitions the black and white photographs are arranged into tableaux, thus a screen-like presentation emerges, giving the viewer the opportunity to compare images. MORE
Click Doubleclick
Exhibition catalogue
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Ends of the Earth and Back
Essay
Essay by Philipp Kaiser and Miwon Kwon "Ends of the Earth and Back" MORE
Mel Bochner on his early works
Essay
Read Mel Bochner's short texts "Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art" (1997) and "Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography 1967-70)" (2000). MORE
Ulrich Wilmes: "Between Reading and Seeing"
Essay
Curator Ulrich Wilmes on the art of American artist Mel Bochner, who is considered one of the founders of conceptual art. MORE
ECM — A Cultural Archaeology: Essay by Okwui Enwezor
Essay
Essay "Great Big Ears" by Okwui Enwezor, Director und Curator of the exhibition "ECM — A Cultural Archaeology" MORE
Thomas Ruff
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Thomas Ruff
Porträt 1988 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
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Thomas Ruff
Porträt (R. Müller) 1986, from the series: Portraits © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
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Thomas Ruff
nudes yv16 2000, from the series: nudes © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
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Thomas Ruff
Interieur 10C 1979, from the series: Interieurs © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
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Thomas Ruff
Nacht 5 I 1992, from the series: Nächte © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
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Thomas Ruff
ma.r.s.01_III 2011, from the series: ma.r.s. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011
Picture Gallery
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History of the air-raid shelter in Haus der Kunst
Pdf, Essay
Text on the history of the former air-raid shelter in Haus der Kunst by Munich historian Sabine Brantl. MORE
Clive Kellner: Kendell Geers 1988 — 2012
Essay
Clive Kellner, curator of the exhibition, gives an overview of Kendell Geers' work from 1988 to 2012. MORE
Okwui Enwezor: Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Essay
The essay offers a comprehensive overview of the pictorial response to apartheid in South Africa. MORE
Albert Renger-Patzsch — Retrospective
Exhibition 01.02 – 13.04.98
Retrospective MORE
William Eggleston
Exhibition 20.02 – 17.05.09
The American artist William Eggleston (*1939, Memphis, USA) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. This comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day. MORE
Brassai — From Surrealism to the Informal
Exhibition 21.01 – 26.03.95
An overview of the photographic work of the Hungarian artist MORE
Robert Adams
Exhibition 29.06 – 25.09.05
During the Federal Garden Show BUGA 2005, which takes place under the motto "Perspective Change" from April to September 2005 in Munich, the Haus der Kunst is presenting the world premiere of Robert Adams’s new series, "Turning Back". The 164-photograph "Turning Back" series looks back at the effects of progress. The work is laid out in the fashion of a journey around the American Northwest. MORE
Umbo
Exhibition 24.05 – 28.07.96
Along with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Otto Umbehr, known as Umbo, is considered to be one of the great photographers of the Weimar Bauhaus. Taught by Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and Johannes Itten, he trained his eye in graphic composition, serial structures and in the effects of light and dark. MORE
Richard Prince
Exhibition 15.11.96 – 06.01.97
Richard Prince, born in 1949 and now living in New York, first achieved success with "re-photographed" images from the media, which — as with his "Cowboy" series — adopt motifs from the consumer world and stylize these into myths. MORE
Mythos Weimar
Exhibition 15.05 – 27.06.99
On the occasion of poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 250th birthday in 1998, the photographer Ute Klophaus walked around Weimar in the poet’s tracks and created a portrait of the city MORE