The Photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher
Screening and conversation with director Marianne Kapfer, Bronwen Colquhoun and Shoair Mavlian
Goethe-Institut London
February 18, 2026
6:30pm

On the occasion of the exhibition Bernd & Hilla Becher at Sprüth Magers, Goethe-Institut London presents a screening of the documentary The Photographers Bernd & Hilla Becher. Following the screening, Marianne Kapfer (Director), Bronwen Colquhoun (Senior Curator, National Museum Cardiff), and Shoair Mavlian (Director, The Photographers’ Gallery) will be part of the panel and Q&A session. Together, they will discuss the Bechers’ profound influence on contemporary photography.

Bernd & Hilla Becher
February 20–March 28, 2026
London

Icons of German postwar photography, Bernd and Hilla Becher meticulously documented industrial architecture across Europe and North America. Their photography simultaneously distils each construction into a taxonomy of visually and functionally homogeneous structures…

Seriously.
Bas Jan Ader, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Massimo Bartolini, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Cao Fei, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Braco Dimitrijevic, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Scott Grieger, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Andreas Gursky, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Barbara Hammer, Nancy Holt / Robert Smithson, Rebecca Horn, Douglas Huebler, Birgit Jürgenssen, Astrid Klein, Natalia LL, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Sarah Lucas, Urs Lüthi, Tom Marioni, Anthony McCall, Jonathan Monk, Peter Moore, Bruce Nauman, Joshua Neustein, Dennis Oppenheim, Géza Perneczky, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, Andrea Robbins / Max Becher, Ulrike Rosenbach, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Santiago Sierra / Franz Erhard Walther, Roman Signer, Laurie Simmons, John Smith, Martine Syms, Robert Therrien, Rosemarie Trockel, Keiji Uematsu, Mark Wallinger, John Waters, Gillian Wearing, Carrie Mae Weems, William Wegman, Hannah Wilke, Stephen Willats, Christopher Williams, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Ger van Elk
November 21, 2025–January 31, 2026
London

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Seriously., a group exhibition curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs, print media, and select films ranging from the 1960s to the present, which expose the absurdities of our world and its representations. Through visual wit, subversiveness, and even outright slapstick, these photographic experiments offer humorous conceptual investigations of how images are constructed and interpreted. Employing a range of strategies, from masquerade and role-play to the construction of inexplicable scenarios, unexpected juxtapositions, and idiosyncratic sculptural compositions, these works reveal the farcical and fantastical within the visual realm. In reframing our visual world through satire and playful mimicry, they create space for both reflection and amusement.

Bernd & Hilla Becher
September 16–November 7, 2023
Berlin

For over five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher produced a remarkable oeuvre in the pursuit of a straightforward theme: variation within limits. Precision, fine detail and methodology mark the Bechers’ work, which straddles several artistic categories. By systematically photographing commonplace industrial buildings across Europe and North America, they captured an architectural landscape in the process of disappearing. Approaching the structures with scientific interest, the artists classified, compared and contrasted their subjects in varying groups and ‘typologies,’ as they named their celebrated grids. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to announce Bernd and Hilla Becher’s first solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin. Showcasing the Bechers’ iconic style and formal rigor will be several seldom-seen works along with two typologies, one of which features a rare amount of twenty-four photographs – intriguing images that allude to the cultural and social significance of the constructions the artists referred to as ‘anonymous sculptures.’

Rust
Bernd & Hilla Becher, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Stephen Shore
July 2–October 1, 2022
Berlin

The photographic group exhibition Rust looks at the decline of the American Rust Belt through the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore and LaToya Ruby Frazier. The nuanced takes of the three artists offer complementary views on the industrial Northeast and Midwest since the late 1970s to the present day against a backdrop of wider societal changes.

Bernd & Hilla Becher
September 7–October 21, 2017
Los Angeles

In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon-to-be-forgotten architectural forms of industry – Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks and Grain Elevators, to name but a few. Systematically photographing each structure, the artists examined their shared qualities and categorized the images into grid typologies or displayed them individually.

Bernd & Hilla Becher
September 3–October 4, 2014
London

Over the past five decades, as both teachers and artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher have become among the most influential figures in contemporary photography. Featuring five typologies of industrial structures, as well as a number of single, large-scale photographs, the exhibition at Sprüth Magers is their first solo show in London since the Camden Arts Centre in 1998 and the largest presentation of their work since ‘Cruel and Tender’, at Tate Modern, in 2003.

Das Licht von der anderen Seite – Teil II Photographie
John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Victor Burgin, Walter Dahn, Jimmy De Sana, Barbara Ess, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Hamish Fulton, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Thomas Locher, Allan Mccollum, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, James Welling, Richard Wentworth
September 17–October 29, 1988
Cologne