Thomas Ruff

1958 Born in Harmersbach, Germany
1977 - 1982 Studied at National Academy of the Arts, Dusseldorf
Lives and works in Duesseldorf

Selected Exhibitions

2006
Click/Doubleclick ? das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich
BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Bibliotheca Insomnia ? Das Digitale Bauhaus II. Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der Sammlung des ZKM Karlsruhe, Bauhaus Universitat, Weimar
Thomas Ruff ? The Grammar of Photography, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Galleria in Piazza San Marco und Palazzetto Tito), Venice
Helga de Alvear ? Conceitos para uma coleccao, CCB Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon

2005
'L¡¯esperienza dell¡¯arte', 51. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Giardini, Venice
'Surfaces/Paradise¡¯, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnheim, NL
'New Work¡¯, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

2004
'Thomas Ruff' Arario Gallery, Chungham, Korea
'Telefonica's Contemporary Photography Collection', Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid

2003
Projektraum 3000, Kunst-&Ausstellungshalle Deutschland, Bonn
Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto
Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles

2002
Thomas Ruff, Photographs: 1979 to present. Irish Museum Of Moder Art, Dublin
Identificaciones, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (solo)
Mies Van Der Rohe 1907-1938, CaixaForum, Barcelona (solo)

2001
The Anagrammatical Body. ZKM. Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
100 al 2000: il Secolo della Fotoarte, Photology, Bologna (solo)
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo)
Enmanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
Galeria Helga de Alverar, Madrid
Mies in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000
How you look at it. Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artist, Moscow
LMVDR, Haus Lange ? Haus Esters, Krefeld
La Arquitectura sin Sombra. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville
l. m. v. d. r. 2 , Fordererkreis Krefelder Kunstmuseen

1999
Cosmos. Del Romanticismo a la Vanguardia, 1801-2001. Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona.
Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1998
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto

1997
Oeuvres 1979-97, Centre national de la photographie, Paris
Galeria Estrany ? de la Mola, Barcelona

1996
Portraits, Houses, Stars, Night, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
JURASSIC technologies - revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australien
Distanz und Nahe, Kawasaki City Museum

1995
Arquitectures plurals, Centre de Cultura, Palma de Mallorca
Bremen; Lindenaumuseum in Altenburg; Museum Wiesbaden
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg

1994
Galerie Johnen + Schottle, Cologne
White Cube, London
The Act of Seeing (urban space), Fondation pour l'Architecture, Bruseels

1993
Image First: Eight Photographers for the '90s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe

1992
Einsamkeit. Un sentimiento aleman, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid und Barcelona
Galerie Johnen + Schottle, Cologne
Galerie Mai 36, Zurich

1991
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Galerie d. Stadt Sindelfingen
7 Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Newport Harbor Art

1990
La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron
Museum of Modern Art, Berkley
Portrats, Hauser, Sterne, Centre National d'Art Contemporain -

1989
Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon
Contemporary European Art, First Bank Skyway Gallery, Minneapolis
Mediated Knot, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago

1988
Bilder - Denda, van Ofen, Ruff, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
Fotografen, APAC - Centre d'art Contemporain, Nevers

1987
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich
Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne

1986
Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon

1985
Kunstlerische Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Universitatsmuseum, Marburg

1984
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf

1983
Laputa, Gutenbergstrasse 62 e. V., Stuttgart