Events
Exhibition
The Future
November 30, 2020–January 31, 2021
gagosian-deitch.com
Gagosian is pleased to announce The Future, the sixth in a series of annual thematic exhibitions presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch during Art Basel Miami Beach. Previously staged at the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District, this year the collaborative project will be hosted on a new stand-alone website.
Ed Ruscha, The Future, 1999 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Screening
“Cinema” Film Festival
Andreas Gursky, Piero Manzoni, Cy Twombly
January 28–February 1, 2020
La Fondazione, Rome
www.lafondazione.info
Over the course of five days, La Fondazione will be hosting a film festival showcasing films by and about artists, including Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up (2009), Piero Manzoni Artista (2014), and Cy Dear (2018). To attend the free event, RSVP to lafondazione.info@gmail.com. Space is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Still from Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up (2009) by Jan Schmidt-Garre
Talk and Book Signing
The Big Picture
Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 6pm
Gagosian Shop, New York
www.gagosian.com/shop
Art historian Matthew Israel will discuss his new book The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists, which reveals the stories behind some of the most exciting contemporary artworks of the twenty-first century. Working variously in the fields of photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installation, video, film, and public art, the artists selected range from Andreas Gursky to Kara Walker to Ai Weiwei. Following the discussion, Israel will sign copies of the book.
Photo courtesy of Prestel
Museum Exhibitions
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Capturing the Moment
June 13, 2023–April 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk
Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.
Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993, Tate Modern, London © Jeff Wall
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Andreas Gursky
Visual Spaces of Today
May 25, 2023–January 7, 2024
Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
www.mast.org
Andreas Gursky: Visual Spaces of Today features forty works by Gursky selected by the artist and Fondazione MAST curator Urs Stahel and spanning his career. Drawing inspiration from the foundation’s name—the acronym stands for “Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione, e Tecnologia”—and its focus on art, innovation, and technology, the works aim to reflect these themes.
Installation view, Andreas Gursky: Visual Spaces of Today, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy. Artwork © Andreas Gursky, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany. Photo: courtesy Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
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Photography’s Last Century
The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
February 17–May 21, 2023
Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
www.telfair.org
Photography’s Last Century celebrates the remarkable ascendancy of photography during the past hundred years, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee’s promised gift of over sixty photographs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where this exhibition originated. The collection is particularly notable for its breadth and depth of works by women artists, its sustained interest in the nude, and its focus on artists’ beginnings. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2005 © Gregory Crewdson
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Motion
Autos, Art, Architecture
April 8–September 18, 2022
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus
Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture celebrates the artistic dimension of the automobile and links it to the parallel worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and film. The exhibition brings together nearly forty automobiles that are placed center stage in the galleries and surrounded by significant works of art and architecture. Work by Alexander Calder, Christo, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol is included.
Installation view, Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, April 8–September 18, 2022. Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo: courtesy Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Andreas Gursky
March 31–August 14, 2022
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
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This is the first solo exhibition in Korea of work by Andreas Gursky, who often integrates multiple photographs to reconstruct reality, capturing places that encapsulate modern civilization to encourage viewers to contemplate the insignificance of individuals in a larger society. The show features more than forty works that provide an overview of Gursky’s entire artistic career, from his early photographs of the mid-1980s to new works produced in 2022.
Installation view, Andreas Gursky, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, March 31–August 14, 2022. Artwork © Andreas Gursky, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany
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Andreas Gursky in
Electro: Von Kraftwerk bis Techno
December 9, 2021–May 15, 2022
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
www.kunstpalast.de
This exhibition, whose title translates to Electro: From Kraftwerk to Techno, examines the history of electronic music and its interconnections with art. Through more than five hundred works, including musical instruments, self-made sound generators, photographs, audio clips, videos, and graphic design, the diverse field of “electronic” music is explored from a variety of perspectives. Work by Andreas Gursky is included.
Andreas Gursky, May Day III, 1998 © Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany, 2021
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Since Unveiling
Selected Acquisitions of a Decade
November 20, 2021–April 3, 2022
The Broad, Los Angeles
www.thebroad.org
Since Unveiling highlights artworks that have entered the Broad collection in the last decade, with some acquisitions completed as recently as this year. The fifty-seven works on view by twenty-nine artists represent many facets of contemporary art, from explorations of abstraction and figuration to examinations of place, identity, and narrative. Many works witness, critique, and interpret current events, speaking to politics and power structures. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn are included.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Pure Insecurity, 2019 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn
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Andreas Gursky
September 9, 2021–February 13, 2022
Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
museum-kueppersmuehle.de
This monographic exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s work includes nearly sixty photographs spanning four decades, starting with early works from the Ruhr region in Germany, which Gursky often used as a setting during his studies with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Also included are well-known iconographic images and large-format photographs that provide a comprehensive overview of the artist’s practice.
Installation view, Andreas Gursky, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany, September 9, 2021–February 13, 2022. Artwork © Andreas Gursky/VG-Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Inga Barnick, Installationsansichten MKM, 2021
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Andreas Gursky
December 5, 2020–August 22, 2021
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
mdbk.de
For this highly personal retrospective—his first solo exhibition in the city of his birth—Andreas Gursky selected approximately eighty photographs, including around fifty extremely large-format compositions; older iconic works that have imprinted themselves on the visual memory, such as 99 Cent (1999); and new works that have yet to be exhibited in a museum.
Andreas Gursky, Kreuzfahrt, 2020 © Andreas Gursky/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
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The Essl Collection
Photography
December 7, 2020–April 5, 2021
Albertina Modern, Vienna
www.albertina.at
Complementing an overview of the Essl Collection, which has been held by the Albertina since 2017, the lower level of the Albertina Modern is presenting a special exhibition of works from the Essl Collection’s photographic holdings. In addition to notable examples of contemporary photography, the show particularly focuses on representatives of the Becher School, who studied under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1970s. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, and Cindy Sherman is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2004 © Gregory Crewdson
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Terminal
August 13, 2020–February 14, 2021
City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
citygallery.org.nz
Terminal is an exhibition of international art made about the airport, not for it. The exhibiting artists variously address the airport as site, form, or symbol—often by subverting its iconography and processes, or by tackling its history and politics. Work by Andreas Gursky and Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Sausages (prohibited), 2010, from the series Contraband, 2010 © Taryn Simon
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Photography’s Last Century
The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
March 10–November 30, 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org
This exhibition celebrates the remarkable ascendancy of photography in the last century, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee’s promised gift of over sixty photographs in honor of the Met’s 150th anniversary in 2020. The collection is particularly notable for its breadth and depth of works by women artists, its sustained interest in the nude, and its focus on artists’ beginnings. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Whiteread is included.
Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, 2005 © Gregory Crewdson