ANDREAS GURSKY

Born: Leipzig, 1955

Education: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1981–87
Studied with Bernd Becher (Meisterschüler), 1985
Folkwangschule (GHS), Essen, Germany, 1978–81

Currently lives and works in Düsseldorf.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2008
Andreas Gursky, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Emirates Hotel, Abu Dhabi
ArchiTektur, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Andreas Gursky, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev
Andreas Gursky, Museum Haus Esters Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Andreas Gursky, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany. Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and Vancouver Art Gallery
Andreas Gursky, Victoria Art Museum, Melbourne
Andreas Gursky, Kunst und Natur, Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

2007
Retrospektive 1984–2007, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Traveled to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
Andreas Gursky, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, and Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
Andreas Gursky, White Cube, London
Andreas Gursky, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Kunstmuseum Basel

2004
Andreas Gursky, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

2003
Antipodes 6, White Cube, London

2002
Andreas Gursky: Fotowerke, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Galleri K, Oslo

2001
Andreas Gursky, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Andreas Gursky: Photographs, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University, Temple, Ariz.
Untitled XII, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1999
Andreas Gursky, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Van Abbe Entr'acte, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Andreas Gursky, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

1998
Currents 27: Andreas Gursky, Milwaukee Art Museum. Traveled to the
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; and Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston
Andreas Gursky: Photographs 1994–1998, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany. Traveled to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Serpentine Gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin; and Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon (catalogue)
Andreas Gursky, Photographs from 1984 to the Present, Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf (catalogue)

1997
Andreas Gursky, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

1996
Andreas Gursky, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Andreas Gursky, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Specta, Copenhagen

1995
Andreas Gursky, 303 Gallery, New York
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden (catalogue)
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich
Andreas Gursky: Images, Tate Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)
Andreas Gursky, Portikus, Frankfurt
Andreas Gursky, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam

1994
Andreas Gursky: Photographs 1984–1993, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. Traveled to de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
Le Case D'Arte, Milan

1993
Andreas Gursky, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne

1992
Andreas Gursky, Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)
Andreas Gursky, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Andreas Gursky, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
Andreas Gursky, Hypobank, New York

1991
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Andreas Gursky, 303 Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris
Andreas Gursky, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

1989
Andreas Gursky, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva
Andreas Gursky, 303 Gallery, New York
Andreas Gursky, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

1988
Andreas Gursky, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne

1987
Andreas Gursky, Flughafen, Düsseldorf


Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Realism, The Adventure of Reality: Courbet, Hopper, Gursky..., Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
Size Does Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU SEE, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Dreamlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Luminous West, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2009
Manipulating Reality, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Event Horizon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (On exhibition through August 26, 2012)
Landscape, Contemporary, Haus der Fotografie - Dr. Robert-Gerlich-Museum, Burghausen, Germany
Beautiful Fictions: Photography at the AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2008
Attention to Detail, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Licht-Bilder: Von Alfred Stieglitz bis Andreas Gursky, BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
New Installation, The Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Die Tropen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
Reflection, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Contemporary Art Museum
La photographie à Düsseldorf, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen (K20-K21), Paris
Visite: Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
REAL, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt

2007
Hirst, Gormley, Gursky, Murakami, et. al in Kyiv, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev
Unter Sternen. Aus der Sammlung Willy Michel. Fotografie, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
What Does the Jellyfish Want? Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Concept: Photography—Dialogues & Attitudes, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Ziemlich hoch. Das Alpine in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Germany
Un/Fair Trade, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus Munich
Flash Cube, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Foto.Kunst, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Global Cities, Tate Modern, London
Stardust, Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Val-de-marne, France
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Contemporary Outlook: German Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, London
An incomplete world, NSW Gallery, Sydney
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever: An Exhibition of the Zabludowicz Collection at BALTIC, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England

2006
Photography from the UBS Art Collection, Tate Modern, London
The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Thank you for the Music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Click Doubleclick, Haus der Kunst, Munich. Traveled to Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Spectacular City. Photographing the Future, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam. Traveled to NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf

2005
Contemporary Voices, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum & Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
The Discovery of the Horizontal, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
Anota la Fecha, Museo de Arte Contemporneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Landscape/Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Empreinte Moi: Une Exposition de Phillipe Ségalot, Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin, Paris
Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

2004
Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Made in Mexico, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
(catalogue)
The Explosive Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Harbor, N.Y. (catalogue)
100 Artists See God, The Jewish Museum of Art, San Francisco
La condición humana, Forum Universal de las Culturas Barcelona 2004, Barcelona
Love/Hate from Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
ON SIDE, Centro de Artes Visuais, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
Metamorph, International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden

2003
Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, New York (organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Affinities . . . Now and Then, Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas
The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis (catalogue)
Objective Spaces: Photographers from Germany, Waddington Galleries,
London
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Unreal Estate Opportunities, pkm gallery, Seoul
Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front of Me, Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum, Rotterdam
Imperfect Innocence, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Palm Beach
Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla.
Cruel + Tender, Tate Modern, London (catalogue)
Torn between Two Lovers, curated by Katharina Fritsch, Matthew Marks
Gallery, New York
Le stanze dell'arte: Figure e imagini del XX secolo, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, Florence
Von Körpern und anderen Dingen: Deutsche Fotografie von der Weimarer bis zur Berliner Republik, City Gallery Prague. Traveled to Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, and The Museum Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.
The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison & Alan Schwartz, Vancouver Art Gallery
The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis
Ausstellung Zeitgenössische Deutsche Fotografie: Stipendiaten der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung 1982–2002, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Come Rally, Espana/Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London/Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Archilab, Site des Subsistances Militaires, FRAC Centre, Orléans Multi Media Centre, Orleans, France. Traveled to Museum of Fine Art, Saint-Pierre Le Puellier Collegiate Church, France
German Art Now, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
20th Anniversary Show, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers, Cologne
Eli Broad Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Leviathan, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Moskau-Berlin, Gropius Bau, Berlin and Moscow
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Made in Mexico, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

2002
Collection Lambert, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich
20 Years/20 Artists, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colo.
Malerei ohne Malerei, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Transfer. Reisen in Zeiten von Cyberspace, Städtische Galerie Böblingen, Böblingen, Germany
Fotografien von Bernd und Hilla Becher, etc. Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
heute bis jetzt. Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
The Politics of Place, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden. Traveled to Edsvik Konst och Kultur, Stockholm; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; and Västernorrlands Länsmuseum, Härnösand, Sweden
Moving Pictures, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
Remix. Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool
Intermedia—Dialog der Medien, Bienal de São Paulo
Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Geld und Wert. Das letzte Tabu, Expo 2002, Biel, Switzerland
Die zweite Schöpfung. Bilder der industriellen Welt vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Shopping. 100 Jahre Kunst und Konsum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Traveled to Tate Liverpool
Die Erfindung der Stadt. Von Babylon zur Global City, Stadtmuseum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (catalogue)
Shanghai Biennale

2001
Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew
Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
The Overexcited Body: Art and Sport in Contemporary Science, Velodromo Vigorelli, Mailand and Palazzo dell'Arengario, Mailand, Italy
Trade: Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Das flache Land. Zur Ästhetik einer unspektakulären Sichtweise, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Fotografie und Plakat, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung, Cottbus, Germany
Ex(o)DUS, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
Minimalismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museum as Subjects, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Waarschijnlijk. Moments Which I Intend to Remember, Stadtsgalerij Heerlen, The Netherlands
1 Site—2 Places, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany
Die Kunst des Autos, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany

2000
Ansicht—Aussicht—Einsicht, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany (with Candida Höfer,
Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth). Traveled to Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, and Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow Landmark Pictures in Boston: Ed Ruscha/Andreas Gursky, Busch-
Reisinger Museum and the Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Biennale of Sydney
Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Museum, New Orleans
Szenenwechsel XVIII, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Das fünfte Element: Geld oder Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Unschärferelation: Fotografie als Dimension der Malerei, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany, and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; and Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
How You Look at It, Sprengel Museum Hannover and Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt (catalogue)
HausSchau: Das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Digitale Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Architecture without Shadow, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, and Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona
Sydney Biennale
Recent Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Herzog & de Meuron, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Collection 2000, Tate Modern, London
Architecture Hot and Cold, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
German Festival in India, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, and Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta. Traveled to Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi

1999
Robert Grosvenor, Andreas Gursky, John Wesley, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh
Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha: Grosse Illusionen,
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (catalogue)
Das Versprechen der Fotografie: Die Sammlung der DG Bank, Frankfurt. Traveled to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, and Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris
Insight Out: Landschaft und Interieur als Themen zeitgenössischer Photographie, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Traveled to Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunsthaus Basel; and Muttenz, Muttenz, Switzerland
Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography, Architectural Association, London
Zwischen Abbildung und Experiment: Fotokunst 1950–1990 aus der Sammlung Garnatz, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Zoom: Ansichten zur deutschen Gegenwartskunst: Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Kunstverein Stuttgart and the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. Traveled to Stuttgart and Esslingen, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, and Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Forum: Robert Grosvenor, Andreas Gursky, John Wesley, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, London
Tomorrow for Ever. Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Traveled to Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
The Big Picture: Large-Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vt.
Räume, Kunsthaus Bregenz (with Lucinda Devlin and Candida Höfer), Bregenz, Austria
An Expanded View: Recent Acquisitions: Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Von Beuys bis Cindy Sherman: Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Contemplating Pollock, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Dokumentarfotografie: Förderpreise 1997/1998, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Das Gedächtnis öffnet seine Tore, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Unschärferelation: Fotografie als Dimension der Malerei, Kunstverein im Marienbad, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Photo España 99. Festival internacional de Fotografía (with Thomas Ruff, Edward Ruscha and Andres Serrano), Madrid
Full Exposure: Contemporary Photography, New Jersey Center
for Visual Arts, Summit, N.J.

1998
Landschaften/Landscapes: Michael Bach, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hütte, Michael van Ofen, Andreas Schön, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1998, The Photographer's Gallery, London
Silos: Robin Collyer, Axel Hütte, Andreas Gursky, FRAC Centre Orléans, France
The Global City, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands
Le sentiment de la montagne: Visions contemporaines, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble, France
Das Versprechen der Fotografie: Die Sammlung der DG Bank,
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

1997
Michael Ashkin, Andreas Gursky and Fischli & Weiss, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Young German Artists 2, Saatchi Gallery, London
Belladonna, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland seit 1945, Berlinerische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Alpenblick. Die zeitgenössische Kunst und das Alpine, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Tuning Up # 4, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Young German Artists 2, The Saatchi Collection, London
Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
A Nice Group of Pictures, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Landschaften: Michael Bach, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hütte, Michael van Ofen, Andreas Schön, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Airport, The Photographer's Gallery, London

1996
Fotografien in der Gegenswartskunst. Prospect '96, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Im Kunstlicht, Kunsthaus Zürich
Fondo, figura u lluvia, Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona
Serielle Strukturen: Die Sammlung I, Städtische Galerie im
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Tableaux de la vie moderne, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels Private View, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England
Stadtansichten, Galerie Otto Nagel, Berlin
Sydney Biennale
Galerie Specta (with Thomas Huber), Copenhagen
Fotografia nell'Arte Tedesca Contemporanea, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, and Foro Boario, Modena, Italy

1995
Summer 1995, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Artistes/Architectes, Le Nouveau Musée Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France
Dicht am Leben, Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Villa Merkel und Bahnwärterhaus and Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Fotografie der Fotografie, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich
Des limites du tableau, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

1994
Junge deutsche Kunst der 90er Jahre aus NRW. Die Generation nach Becher, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Ruthenbeck, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea. Traveled to Hong Kong Arts Centre; Taipei Fine Arts Center; Sun Tec Exhibition Center, Singapore; International Art Gallery, Beijing; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; and National Gallery Bangkok (catalogue)
Vis-à-vis: Fotografien aus Lothringen und dem Ruhrgebiet, Rhurlandmuseum, Essen, Germany. Traveled to Centre Culturel André Malraux, Nancy, France
The Epic and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic Art, Hayward Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London
La Ville: Intimité et froideur, Galerie des Archives, Paris
Zum gleichen Thema, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Los generos de la pintura, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Reverendo Brasilia neu gesehen, Galeria Athos Bilcao, Teatro national Brasilia, Brazil. Traveled to Museu de Imagem e Sam, São Paulo; Palacio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro; Museu Metropolitano de Arte, Curbita, Brazil; Usian do Gasómetro, Porto Alegre, Brazil; and Centro Cultural da UFMG, Belo Horizonte Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm (with Willie Doherty)
Technik: Fotografie. Teil I, Galerie Busche, Berlin

1993
Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna,
Industriefotographie heute, Neue Pinakothek, Munich. Traveled to Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Die Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Stipendiaten für zeitgenössische deutsche Fotographie der Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung 1990–1992, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. Traveled to Galerie Robert Doisneau, Station Centre Culturel André Malraux, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
Gursky, Meuser, Schön, Galeria Tabea Langenkamp, Düsseldorf
Deutsche Kunst mit Photographie. Die 90er Jahre, Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt

1992
Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London
Mythos Rhein, Wilhelm-Hauck-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Qui, quoi, où? Un regard sur l'art en Allemagne en 1992, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Distanz und Nähe, organized for international tour by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Stuttgart. Traveled to Prague; Krakow; Berlin; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Rijeka, Croatia; Rotterdam; Ankara; Izmir, Turkey; Vancouver; Calgary; Los Angeles; Atlanta; Washington, D.C.; Riga, Latvia; Kawasaki; Tochigi, Japan; Kyoto; Melbourne; Sydney; Tel Aviv; Athens; Thessaloníki, Greece; Moscow; St. Petersburg; and Odessa, Ukraine

1991
10 Jahre Kunstfonds, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Andreas Gursky, Fischli/Weiss, Boyd Webb, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Photoprojekt München, Munich
Aus der Distanz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Sguardo di Medusa, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Bremer Kunstpreis 1991, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Renta-Preis 1991, Noris-Halle, Nuremberg

1990
Aperto, Venice Biennale
De Afstand, Witte de With Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Rotterdam
Der klare Blick, Kunstverein München, Munich
The Past and the Present of Photography: When Photographs Enter
The Museum, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Güntger Förg: Fotografie, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany

1989
Erster Deutscher Photopreis '89, Galerie Landesgirokasse Stuttgart
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Galerie Bruges la Morte, Bruges, Belgium
Erste Internationale Photo-Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
303 Gallery, New York
Photokunst, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
In Between and Beyond, From Germany, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Parallel Views, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
The Periphery, Part I: Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, P.S.1, The Clocktower Gallery, New York

1988
Zeichnung, Druckgraphik und Photographie, Galerie Mosel & Tschechow,
Munich
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne

1987
Photoarbeiten I, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich

1986
7 Fotografen, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Ausstellungsräume Brückenstrasse, Düsseldorf

1985
Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Strasse, Munich