Soleil·s
Group Exhibition
Solar Biennale 2
Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (mudac), Lausanne
Through September 21, 2025

Launched in 2022 in the Neth­er­lands by design­ers Pauline van Dongen and Marjan van Aubel, the Solar Bien­nale provides a plat­form for reflec­tion on the chal­lenges of solar energy. For this second edition, mudac will broaden the theme by bring­ing together design­ers, curat­ors, activ­ists, and research­ers to explore expan­ded perspect­ives on how to approach ecolo­gical trans­ition. Far from limit­ing itself to a single, socially construc­ted vision, Soleil·s will address the symbolic, polit­ical, prac­tical, and aesthetic dimen­sions of our rela­tions to that star.

(Un)real
Group Exhibition
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Through October 19, 2025

Art is not just about objects or phenomena. Art also represents something – even when it does not depict something we can recognise. The exhibition (Un)real features interpretations by various artists of reality and of the notions we form in our encounter with works of art and reality. The fulcrum of the exhibition comprises Ai Weiwei’s gigantic trees rising from the marble floor. The bare trees are not just trees. They are fragments of numerous dead camphor trees gathered in southern China and combined to create a new reality. Maybe it is a critical representation of how a multitude of individual parts are forced together and subjected to a system that attempts to look natural, but is actually a huge, controlled illusion. An unreal reality.

Andreas Gursky
Inherited Images
March 14–April 19, 2025
New York

Andreas Gursky stands out as one of the most important photographers of his generation. His monumentally scaled works have redefined the medium in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, capturing the condition of modern-day life in condensed form. Interested in the workings of globalization, consumerism, and social phenomena as they relate to contemporary society, Gursky examines the realities of our changing planet. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present a solo show of Gursky’s new and recent works as well as a selection of his well-known photographs set in an intertextual dialogue with Old Masters at the New York gallery. Engaging with the images inscribed into our collective memories by the history of painting – from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to J.M.W. Turner and Carl Gustav Carus – the show examines how contemporary images relate to ones of the past, prompting viewers to consider their function as a silent foundation of the way we see.

Andreas Gursky
September 12–November 14, 2020
Berlin

In September 2020, Andreas Gursky will present a major new body of work. Directing his attention towards international politics and environmental crises, including sustainable and ethical treatment of animals, Gursky continues to expand his “Encyclopedia of Life.”

Andreas Gursky
Space is Time
September 5–November 1, 2020

The online exhibition, Space is Time, examines the relationship between the moving and still image through the work of Andreas Gursky. In the span of Gursky's incredibly prolific career, the technology with which he has captured the still image has changed dramatically. From Alfred Hitchcock to the now ubiquitous iPhone photo, this exhibition traces the changing landscape through the eye of one of the world's most distinguished photographers.

Andreas Gursky
Early Landscapes
April 15–June 21, 2014
London

From the moment he started making photographs to the present day, the landscape has captivated Andreas Gursky. This exhibition is the first to focus on a group of important early landscapes from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Predating Gursky’s extensive use of digital technology, and characterised by what the artist has called an ‘extraterrestrial’ perspective, the pictures are titled simply and directly after the geographical location where they were taken.

Andreas Gursky
May 1–June 21, 2010
Berlin

This series of new works by Andreas Gursky represents an important new development in his practice in which the artist reassesses the way he works with photography.

Like many of Andreas Gursky’s works, the new, six-part series Ocean I-VI (2009-2010) goes back to a spontaneous visual experience. As the artist relates, while flying one night from Dubai to Melbourne he stared for some time at the flight monitor: the Horn of Africa to the far left, a tip of Australia to the far right – and there in between the blue void. Then all of a sudden he saw the graphic representation on the monitor as a picture.

Andreas Gursky
March 22–May 12, 2007
London

This inaugural exhibition of recent works by Andreas Gursky is also the artist’s first UK show since the Serpentine Gallery exhibition in 1998 and is being held jointly with White Cube at Mason’s Yard.

Gursky’s sumptuous large scale photographs of mass events, stock exchanges (of which Kuwait Stock Exchange is the most recent), futuristic architecture and altered landscapes address 21st century concerns such as capitalism and globalisation, the place of the individual in the technological age and man’s impact on the natural environment.

Ausblick
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Louise Lawler, Vincenzo Castella
July 4–August 30, 1997
Cologne