
Thomas Ruff
lives and works in Düsseldorf
1958 born in Zell am Harmersbach, GermanyEducation
1977–1985 studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf (Prof. Bernd Becher)
Teaching positions
2000-2006 Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf
Awards
2016 Artist of the Year, American Friends of Museums (AFIM), New York
2011 PhotoEspaña 2011 Award, Madrid
2006 International Center of Photography Infinity Award, New York
2003 Hans-Thoma Preis, Hans-Thoma Museum, Bernau, Germany
| may 09 - aug 16 2020 | Thomas Ruff | K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| may 07 - sep 02 2019 | PHOTOPHILIA | MARe/Museum of Recent Art,
Bucharest |
| sep 21 - dec 15 2018 | Thomas Ruff | Galeria OMR,
Mexico City |
| mar 22 - jun 22 2018 | Thomas Ruff | Galleria Lia Rumma,
Naples |
| feb 09 - apr 07 2018 | neg◊lapresmidi | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| oct 12 2017 - jan 14 2018 | Machine & Energy | Mast Foundation,
Bologna |
| sep 27 2017 - jan 21 2018 | Portraits | National Portrait Gallery,
London |
| sep 27 2017 - jan 21 2018 | Photographs 1979 - 2017 | Whitechapel Gallery,
London |
| jul 07 - aug 26 2017 | New Works | Sprüth Magers Berlin |
| jun 10 - jul 29 2017 | Thomas Ruff: ++from the press++ | Mai 36 Galerie,
Zurich |
| dec 10 2016 - mar 12 2017 | Thomas Ruff | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan |
| nov 18 2016 - jan 05 2017 | New Works | David Zwirner,
London |
| aug 30 - nov 13 2016 | Thomas Ruff | The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo |
| jun 01 2016 - jul 01 2018 | Sammlungspräsentation | Philara,
Düsseldorf |
| apr 28 - aug 01 2016 | Object Relations | Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto |
| mar 31 - apr 30 2016 | press++ | David Zwirner,
New York |
| aug 06 - sep 25 2015 | nature morte | Gagosian Gallery,
London |
| apr 17 - jun 06 2015 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| oct 04 - nov 15 2014 | ma.r.s. and negatives | Gallery Koyanagi,
Tokyo |
| oct 04 - nov 15 2014 | photograms | TOLOT7/heuristic SHINONOME,
Tokyo |
| sep 20 2014 - jan 11 2015 | Lichten | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |
| jun 14 - jul 31 2014 | New Work | Mai 36 Galerie,
Zurich |
| apr 19 - may 31 2014 | photograms and negatives | Gagosian Gallery,
Beverly Hills, L.A. |
| apr 04 - may 31 2014 | photograms | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| nov 08 2013 - jan 25 2014 | Photograms | Johnen Galerie,
Berlin |
| sep 06 - nov 02 2013 | New Works | Konrad Fischer Galerie,
Düsseldorf |
| may 09 - jun 29 2013 | ma.r.s. | Galería Helga de Alvear,
Madrid |
| mar 28 - apr 27 2013 | photograms and ma.r.s. | David Zwirner,
New York |
| - 2013 | Series | Sala Alcalá 31,
Madrid |
| - 2013 | j_m_s_s_z | Galleria Lia Rumma,
Milan |
| sep 15 - nov 03 2012 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| mar 08 - apr 21 2012 | nudes and ma.r.s. | Gagosian Gallery,
London |
| feb 17 - may 20 2012 | Thomas Ruff | Haus der Kunst,
Munich |
| oct 21 2011 - jan 29 2012 | Thomas Ruff | Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga,
Malaga |
| oct 09 2011 - jan 15 2012 | Photography Calling! | Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover |
| sep 25 2011 - jan 08 2012 | Stellar Landscapes | Westfälisches Landesmuseum,
Münster |
| apr 15 - jun 04 2011 | Thomas Ruff | Mai 36 Galerie,
Zurich |
| feb 19 - jun 19 2011 | MCA DNA | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| oct 16 - dec 11 2010 | Thomas Ruff | Palazzo Buonamici, Prato |
| may 07 - jun 26 2010 | Thomas Ruff | Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf |
| mar 26 - apr 24 2010 | Thomas Ruff | Gow Langsford Gallery,
Aukland |
| feb 11 - mar 13 2010 | Thomas Ruff | David Zwirner,
New York |
| sep 05 - oct 17 2009 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| jun 19 - sep 27 2009 | Schwarzwald. Landschaft | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Freiburg |
| may 21 - sep 13 2009 | Oberflächen, Tiefen | Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna |
| mar 18 - jun 21 2009 | Thomas Ruff | Castello di Rivoli,
Turin |
| - 2009 | Landscapes/Tenerife | TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| - 2009 | Cassini + Zycles | Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo |
| sep 12 - oct 18 2008 | zycles + cassini | Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich |
| - 2008 | retrospektiv | Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest |
| nov 09 - dec 02 2007 | Thomas Ruff | David Zwirner,
New York |
| apr 13 - may 19 2007 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| mar 01 - may 02 2007 | jpegs | Moderna Museet,
Stockholm |
| jan 21 - apr 01 2007 | Das Sprengelprojekt | Sprengel Museum,
Hanover |
| jun 16 - oct 15 2006 | The Grammar of Photography | Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,
Venice |
| jun 03 - jul 29 2006 | jpegs | Johnen Galerie, Berlin |
| may 26 - jun 30 2006 | Space 1 | Arario Gallery, Beijing |
| jan 07 - feb 17 2006 | new jpegs | Galerie Nelson,
Paris |
| may 29 - jun 24 2005 | Maschinen | Kunstverein Heinsberg,
Heinsberg |
| mar 09 - apr 02 2005 | jpegs | David Zwirner,
New York |
| - 2005 | Neue jpegs | Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich |
| may 28 - aug 22 2004 | Thomas Ruff | Arario Gallery,
Chungnam, Korea |
| may 17 - jun 04 2004 | Neue Nudes - Neue Substrate - Neue Maschinen | Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| jan 23 - mar 06 2004 | Neue Arbeiten/New Works | Contemporary Fine Arts,
Berlin |
| dec 05 2003 - feb 29 2004 | nudes und maschinen | Kestnergesellschaft,
Hanover |
| nov 22 2003 - jan 31 2004 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf,
Frankfurt a. M. |
| oct 30 - dec 20 2003 | Thomas Ruff | Galleria Lia Rumma,
Naples, Milan |
| may 22 - jun 21 2003 | Thomas Ruff | David Zwirner,
New York |
| jan 31 - mar 15 2003 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| - 2003 | Thomas ruff | Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich |
| - 2003 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Nelson, Paris |
| apr 11 - aug 04 2002 | Identificaciones | Museo Tamayo, Mexico |
| feb 23 - apr 06 2002 | l.m.v.d.r. | Contemporary Fine Arts,
Berlin |
| feb 17 - apr 14 2002 | Interieurs – Porträts – Häuser | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| - 2002 | Substrate | Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo |
| - 2002 | l.m.v.d.r. | Emotional Site (Sagacho Shokuryo Building), Tokyo |
| nov 17 2001 - 2002 | Fotografien 1979 - heute | Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
| sep 13 - oct 14 2001 | l.m.v.d.r. | David Zwirner Gallery,
New York |
| sep 06 - nov 28 2001 | Thomas Ruff | Essor Gallery, London |
| may 16 - jun 16 2001 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle,
Munich |
| - 2001 | l.m.v.d.r. | Chabot Museum, Rotterdam |
| - 2001 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| - 2001 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 2001 | Thomas ruff | Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
| - 2001 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| may 28 - jul 08 2000 | Nudes | Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin |
| may 27 - jul 08 2000 | Nudes | Contemporary Fine Arts,
Berlin |
| may 19 - jul 15 2000 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt a. M. |
| apr 28 - may 27 2000 | Nudes | David Zwirner Gallery, New York |
| - 2000 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 2000 | l.m.v.d.r. | Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld
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| - 2000 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Nelson, Paris |
| - 2000 | Selected Photographs | Zwirner & Wirth, New York |
| dec 10 1999 - jan 29 2000 | Porträts+Nudes | Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1999 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| - 1999 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Nelson, Paris |
| jun 18 - jul 31 1998 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt a. M. |
| feb 21 - mar 28 1998 | Plakate | 303 Gallery, New York |
| feb 06 - mar 21 1998 | FUCK CONTEMPORARY ART | Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin |
| - 1998 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1998 | Portraits + Houses | Atelier Gallery, Vancouver |
| - 1998 | Thomas ruff | Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo |
| - 1997 | Oeuvres 1979-97 | Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
| - 1997 | Plakate | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1997 | Plakate | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| - 1997 | Junge Leute | Goethe Institut, Paris |
| - 1997 | Thomas Ruff | Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
| - 1997 | Thomas Ruff - Kleine Porträts | Dryphoto, Prato |
| dec 04 1996 - feb 23 1997 | Zuspiel | Sprengel Museum, Hanover |
| oct 24 1996 - jan 05 1997 | Über den Wolken – unter den Sternen | Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany |
| apr 13 - jun 09 1996 | Thomas Ruff | Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö |
| feb - mar 1996 | Andere Porträts + 3D | 303 Gallery, New York |
| jan 18 - mar 02 1996 | Portraits, Houses, Stars, Night | Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco |
| - 1996 | Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany |
| - 1996 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Nelson, Paris |
| jan 01 - dec 31 1995 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1995 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| - 1995 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg |
| - 1995 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| jan 01 - dec 31 1994 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1994 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| apr 29 - may 26 1993 | Nuits | Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris |
| mar 27 - apr 24 1993 | Thomas Ruff | 303 Gallery, New York |
| mar 06 - apr 06 1993 | Thomas Ruff | Deweer Art Gallery, Ottegem, Belgium |
| - 1993 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| - 1992 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1992 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg |
| - 1992 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Zurich |
| feb 07 - may 11 1991 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Lia Rumma, Naples |
| - 1991 | Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Bonn; Kunstverein Arnsberg; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen |
| - 1991 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| oct 06 - oct 30 1990 | Stars & Portraits | Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles |
| sep 08 - oct 06 1990 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris |
| may 10 - jun 24 1990 | Porträts, Häuser, Sterne | Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble |
| apr 15 - may 06 1990 | Thomas Ruff | 303 Gallery, New York |
| - 1990 | Porträts, Häuser, Sterne | Galerie Sonne, Berlin |
| - 1990 | Häuser | Galerie Mai 36, Luzern, Switzerland |
| nov 24 1989 - jan 08 1990 | Porträts, Häuser, Sterne | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| apr 15 - may 13 1989 | thomas ruff | 303 Gallery, New York |
| feb 25 - mar 25 1989 | thomas ruff | De Appel Fondation, Amsterdam |
| jan 01 - dec 31 1989 | thomas ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1989 | Häuser | Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany |
| - 1989 | thomas ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1989 | thomas ruff | Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon |
| - 1989 | Porträts | Cornerhouse, Manchester |
| mar 13 - sep 17 1988 | Porträts | Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert |
| - 1988 | Thomas ruff | Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto |
| - 1988 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Mai 36, Luzern |
| nov 26 1987 - jan 06 1988 | Thomas ruff | Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris |
| - 1987 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1987 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1987 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| - 1986 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon |
| - 1985 | Künstlerische Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts | Universitätsmuseum, Marburg |
| - 1984 | Thomas Ruff | Ausstellungsräume Brückenstrasse 7, Düsseldorf |
| - 1981 | Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| apr 24 - jul 19 2020 | Schall und Rauch: Die wilden Zwanziger | Thomas Ruff | Kunsthaus Zürich |
| apr 18 - aug 23 2020 | Black Album / White Cube. A Journey into Art and Music | Thomas Ruff | Kunsthal Rotterdam |
| mar 21 - jun 14 2020 | SUBJEKT und OBJEKT. Foto Rhein Ruhr | A.o., Astrid Klein, Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
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| feb 29 - apr 26 2020 | The Lives and Loves of Images. Yesterday's News Today | Thomas Ruff | Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Kunstverein Heidelberg |
| sep 06 2019 - jan 27 2020 | original bauhaus | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung at Berlinische Galerie,
Berlin |
| apr 11 - aug 25 2019 | Bauhaus and Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum für Fotografie,
Berlin |
| mar 17 - jun 15 2019 | New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century | A.o., Thomas Ruff, Rosemarie Trockel | Museum of Modern Art,
NY |
| mar 01 - aug 11 2019 | HYPER! A JOURNEY INTO ART AND MUSIC | A.o., Thea Djordjadze, Cyprien Gaillard, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Scheibitz, Rosemarie Trockel | Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg |
| jan 19 - mar 30 2019 | Un bout de chemin... | A.o., Thomas Ruff | FRAC Bretagne |
| jan 19 - mar 24 2019 | L’invention d’un Monde. Photographies des Collections Robelin | A.o., Thomas Ruff | FRAC Auvergne |
| nov 16 2018 - jan 20 2019 | PRIX PICTET: SPACE (TRAVELLING EXHIBITION) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Gallery of Photography,
Dublin |
| nov 10 2018 - feb 10 2019 | Signal or Noise | A.o., Louise Lawler, Thomas Ruff | S.M.A.K,
Ghent |
| nov 01 - nov 13 2018 | PRIX PICTET: SPACE (TRAVELLLING EXHIBITION) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Flowers Gallery,
New York |
| oct 12 - nov 27 2018 | Photography Spotlight | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Victoria and Albert Museum,
UK |
| oct 04 2018 - jan 06 2019 | Black Hole. Art and Materiality from Informal to Invisible | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo,
Bergamo, IT |
| sep 21 2018 - jan 13 2019 | No Two Alike: Karl Blossfeldt, Francis Bruguière, Thomas Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio,
Cincinnati, USA |
| sep 18 - oct 17 2018 | PRIX PICTET: SPACE (TRAVELLING EXHIBITION) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Global Art Center,
Istanbul |
| sep 10 - sep 30 2018 | Prix Pictet: Space (travelling exhibition) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | EPFL ArtLab,
Lausanne |
| jun 13 - sep 02 2018 | Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Sprengel Museum,
Hannover |
| may 02 - oct 14 2018 | SHAPE OF LIGHT: 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ABSTRACT ART | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tate Modern, London |
| mar 18 - jun 17 2018 | Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, New York |
| mar 02 - apr 22 2018 | Prix Pictet: Space (travelling exhibition) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Modern Art,
Mexico City |
| feb 07 - may 20 2018 | Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston |
| jun 03 - sep 03 2017 | Produktion. Made in Germany Drei | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kestner Gesellschaft,
Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
| may 05 - jun 30 2017 | THE COLLECTORS HOME | Jenny Holzer, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Scheibitz | AVLSKARL GALLERY,
COPENHAGEN |
| may 04 - may 28 2017 | Prix Pictet: Space (travelling exhibition) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Victoria and Albert Museum,
London |
| apr 29 - sep 03 2017 | Oracle | A.o., Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Ruff | The Broad,
Los Angeles |
| apr 27 - aug 13 2017 | Photographs Become Pictures | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Städel Museum,
Frankfurt |
| mar 30 - jul 09 2017 | You are Looking at Something That Never Occurred | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Zabludowicz Collection,
London |
| feb 08 - may 29 2017 | VARIABLE DIMENSIONS - ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTURE | A.o., John Baldessari, Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology,
Lisbon |
| oct 01 2016 - jan 15 2017 | Behold the Man | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum de Fundatie,
Zwolle |
| mar 25 - jul 17 2016 | Pandora’s Box – Jan Dibbets on Another Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
| jan 29 - may 15 2016 | Electronic Superhighway | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Whitechapel Gallery,
London |
| sep 11 2015 - jan 24 2016 | 2050.A brief history of the future | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels |
| jun 20 - nov 13 2015 | Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
| jun 20 - nov 20 2015 | Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museu Serralves, Porto |
| jun 19 - oct 04 2015 | Sense (Un)Certainty: A Private Collection | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
| jun 13 2015 - jan 31 2016 | Future Present: Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Schaulager, Basel |
| mar 20 - jun 21 2015 | FACES - between figures, portraits and masks | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Neues Museum. Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
| mar 14 - may 25 2015 | Digital Conditions | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Hannover,
Hanover |
| mar 08 - may 17 2015 | Eye to Eye: Looking Beyond Likeness | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| mar 05 - jun 07 2015 | Adam, Eve & the Devil | A.o., Thomas Ruff | House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
| mar 03 - may 30 2015 | Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
| feb 26 - apr 04 2015 | Souvenirs de Paris | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Peter Freeman, Inc., New York |
| feb 20 - jun 07 2015 | Mijn Vlakke Land/ My Flat Country: On photography and landscape | A.o., Thomas Ruff | FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp |
| feb 19 - apr 17 2015 | Parra for Cuva & Trashlagoon feat. Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Ruff, Elmgreen & Dragest | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin |
| feb 06 - may 17 2015 | FACES NOW. European Portrait Photography since 1990 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
| feb 05 - apr 05 2015 | The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge |
| jan 16 - mar 14 2015 | Beyond the Surface | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf |
| dec 03 2014 - may 29 2015 | To Have and to Hold. 50 Years of Marriage and Collecting Contemporary Art | A.o., George Condo, Reinhard Mucha, Michail Pirgelis, Richard Prince, Richard Prince, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel | Rubell Family Collection,
Miami |
| nov 08 2014 - jan 04 2015 | Magnus - Scènes de l'imaginaire automate | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Villa Bernasconi, Geneva |
| jun 14 - aug 17 2014 | (Mis)Understanding Photography: Works and Manifestos | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| apr 04 - jun 22 2014 | Neon - Vom Leuchten der Kunst | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken |
| mar 21 - apr 27 2014 | Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Center for the Arts, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U |
| feb 02 - may 04 2014 | Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
| - 2014 | Intimität/ Intimacy | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid |
| oct 24 2013 - may 26 2014 | Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hirshhorn Mus |
| oct 12 2013 - apr 06 2014 | Somos Libres | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Asociación Mario Testino (MATE), Lima |
| oct 05 2013 - feb 09 2014 | L'OEil photographique | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fonds régional d'art contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand |
| sep 05 - oct 05 2013 | 13th Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Drone: The Automated Image | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Darling FOundry, Montreal |
| may 25 - sep 08 2013 | Visionen. Atmosphären der Veränderung | A.o., Thomas Ruff | MARTa Herford, Herford |
| may 18 - nov 10 2013 | ‘Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection’ | Andreas Gursky, Pamela Rosenkranz, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago |
| feb 22 - may 20 2013 | Ein drittel Weiß | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunst im Tunnel, DÜsseldorf |
| jan 24 - apr 07 2013 | Through a Glass Darkly: Faces Past and Present | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Ernst Museum, Budapest |
| - 2013 | Starig Back | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei |
| sep 25 2012 - may 27 2013 | After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| mar 23 - jun 24 2012 | Art and Press - Kunst. Wahrheit. Wirklichkeit. | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Martin-Gropius-Bau,Berlin |
| dec 07 2011 - apr 22 2012 | Envisioning Buildings: Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | MAK Exhibition Hall, Vienna |
| may 31 - jun 24 2011 | 1000 Faces/ 0 Faces/ 1 Face | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Alcalá 31, Madrid |
| may 27 - sep 11 2011 | Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
| may 27 - sep 11 2011 | Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
| apr 01 - aug 15 2011 | Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum/Space. About a Dream | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna |
| jan 19 - may 22 2011 | The Truth is Not in the Mirror: Photography and a Constructed Identity | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee |
| dec 18 2010 - apr 26 2011 | 21st Century: Art in the first Decade | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| nov 26 2010 - mar 28 2011 | Atlas. How to Carry the World on One's Back? | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid |
| jul 18 - nov 07 2010 | Lebenslust und Totentanz | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
| jun 01 - aug 15 2010 | Nude Visions. 150 Jahre Körperbilder in der Fotografie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
| may 28 - oct 03 2010 | Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tate Modern, London |
| feb 25 - may 25 2010 | Atopia: Art and the City in the 21st Century | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona |
| feb 06 - may 31 2010 | In The Vernacular | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| dec 10 2009 - mar 07 2010 | Süsser Vogel Jugend | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
| dec 05 2009 - apr 10 2010 | Just What is it... | Thomas Demand, Andreas Gursky, Joseph Kosuth, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Ruff, Frank Stella, Rosemarie Trockel | ZKM | Zentrum üür Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe,
Karlsruhe |
| dec 04 2009 - apr 11 2010 | just what is it ... | A.o., Thomas Ruff | ZKM, Karlsruhe |
| nov 20 2009 - feb 27 2010 | Terror and the Sublime: Art in an Age of Anxiety | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Crawford Art Gallery, Cork |
| oct 24 2009 - jan 10 2010 | Es werde Dunkel!Nachtdarstellungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen |
| oct 12 - jan 04 2009 | Espèces d'espace | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Le Magasin - Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble |
| sep 18 - dec 09 2009 | Prune: Abstracting Reality | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Foam_fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
| sep 05 2009 - feb 14 2010 | DIE KUNST IST SUPER! | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hamburger Bahnhof. Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
| jul 10 - oct 04 2009 | Bad Habits | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
| jan 25 - apr 19 2009 | Art of Two Germanys/ Cold War Cultures | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| - 2009 | Das Porträt. Fotografie als Bühne | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna |
| oct 05 2008 - jan 11 2009 | Photo20esimo: MAsters of 20th Century Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo d'Arte, Lugano |
| oct 04 2008 - jan 04 2009 | Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC, Paris | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Objectivités: La photographie à Düsseldorf |
| sep 27 2008 - feb 15 2009 | Diana and Actaeon: The Forbidden Sight of Nudity | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf |
| sep 06 - nov 16 2008 | Darkside: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
| jun 22 - oct 05 2008 | That Was Then... This is Now | A.o., Thomas Ruff | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City |
| may 22 - aug 31 2008 | Street and Studio: An Urban History of Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tate Modern, London |
| may 01 - jun 01 2008 | Between Memory & History | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto |
| apr 08 - oct 19 2008 | Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| apr 04 2008 - may 31 2009 | Building Pictures | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago |
| mar - sep 2008 | The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver |
| jan 18 - may 04 2008 | Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | International Center of Photography, New York |
| - 2008 | On the Human Being: International Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville |
| - 2008 | Visual Tactics: Optical Instruments in History and Contemporary Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen |
| sep 24 2007 - mar 22 2008 | Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| sep 15 - nov 25 2007 | Kopf an Kopf: Serielle Porträtfotografie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen |
| jul 08 2007 - jan 27 2008 | As if nothing had been said | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Hans Lange, Krefeld |
| jul 05 - sep 30 2007 | Flash Cube | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul |
| jul 02 2007 - jan 27 2008 | Contemporary Outlook: German Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| jun 09 - nov 05 2007 | Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palazzo Fortuny, Musei Civici Veneziani, Venice |
| mar 31 - jun 24 2007 | What Does the Jellyfish Want? Photographs from Man Ray to James Coleman | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| mar 05 - nov 04 2007 | Vertigo | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna |
| mar 01 - jun 10 2007 | après la pluie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée Départemental d'Art, Rochechouart |
| feb 24 - jun 24 2007 | Unter Sternen. Aus der Sammlung Willy Michel | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgsdorf |
| jan 20 - mar 20 2007 | Mehr als das Auge fassen kann | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Mueso de Arte de Lima, Lima |
| jan 16 - apr 01 2007 | L'événement | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Jeu de Paume, Paris |
| - 2007 | Existencias | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León |
| - 2007 | R., B. & G. | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Wexford Arts Center, Wexford |
| - may 06 2007 | Spectacular City | A.o., Thomas Ruff | NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf |
| - 2007 | Who's Got the Big Picture? | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
| dec 28 - apr 30 2006 | Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown |
| sep 17 - dec 31 2006 | Super Vision | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
| sep 14 2006 - jan 07 2007 | Ectopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video | A.o., Thomas Ruff | International Center of Photography, New York |
| jul 19 - sep 27 2006 | Die Liebe zum Licht | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst |
| may 23 - jul 16 2006 | Abstract art now - Floating forms (Teil 1/Part 1) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen |
| may 12 - jul 30 2006 | Herzog & de Meuron | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Haus der Kunst, Munich |
| feb 08 - apr 23 2006 | Click Doublecklick: das dokumentarische Moment | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Haus der Kunst, Munich |
| - 2006 | Alterazioni: Le materie della fotografia tra analogico e digitale | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan |
| - 2006 | The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Biennale von Sevilla, Sevilla |
| oct 29 2005 - feb 11 2006 | Flashback. Eine Revision der Kunst der 80er Jahre | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel |
| oct 13 2005 - jan 08 2006 | Erotica: os sentidos na arte | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo |
| sep 24 2005 - jan 08 2006 | The Figurative Impulse | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan |
| sep 23 2005 - feb 12 2006 | Rückkehr ins All | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
| may 12 - oct 30 2005 | Himmelsbilder / Images of Heaven | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Salzburg |
| may 12 - oct 30 2005 | Himmelsbilder / Images of Heaven | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Salzburg |
| jan 30 - may 16 2005 | Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunst-Werke, Berlin |
| jan 22 - may 08 2005 | Beauty and Waste in the ARchitecture of Herzog & de Meuron | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam |
| - 2005 | Von neuen Sternen. Adam Elsheimer: Flucht nach Ägypten | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
| - 2005 | Surfaces Paradise | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum voor moderne Kunst, Arnhem |
| - 2005 | Frontal 7 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Photographic Centre Nykyaika, Tampere |
| - 2005 | Veus Intérieurs | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Passerelle - Scène Nationale de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc |
| oct 02 2004 - feb 13 2005 | Architecture&Arts 1900/2000 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palazzo Ducale, Genoa |
| sep 28 - nov 28 2004 | L’ombre du temps. Documents et experimentations dans la photographie du XXe siécle, | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Jeu de paume, Paris |
| jun 19 2004 - jan 02 2005 | Die Zehn Gebote | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden |
| jun 14 - oct 29 2004 | Stadträume | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstforum Baloise, Basel |
| jun 14 - oct 29 2004 | Enthüllt. Exposed. Das Aktbild in der Fotokunst des 20. Jahrhunderts | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Städtisches Museum Heilbronn, Heilbronn |
| jun 06 - sep 26 2004 | Wirklich Wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Ruhrlandmuseum, ESsen |
| may 14 - may 16 2004 | ZBO-SdM052004 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn |
| mar 20 - jun 27 2004 | Brainstorming: Topopgraphie de la morale | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre International d’art et du Paysage, île de Vassivière |
| feb 14 - apr 18 2004 | Multiple Räume (1): Seele - Konstruktion des Innerlichen in der Kunst | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
| - 2004 | Explosive Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Nassau Country Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor |
| - 2004 | Metamorph. Trajectories | A.o., Thomas Ruff | 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice |
| - 2004 | Paisaje y Memoria. Landscape and Memory | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderne, Las Palmas |
| - 2004 | Take Five! | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Huis Marseille, Amsterdam |
| - 2004 | Tour-Detours de Babel | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporaine, Geneva |
| oct 12 - jan 04 2003 | The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| aug - oct 27 2003 | Stranger in the Village | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Museum of Modern art At Guild Hall, East Hampton |
| jun - sep 28 2003 | 2003 Beaufort, Triennale für zeitgenössische Kunst am Meer | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Ostend |
| may 03 - jul 27 2003 | S(HOW) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia |
| feb 01 - mar 26 2003 | Affinities... Now and Then | A.o., Thomas Ruff | H&R Block ARtspace at the Kansas City ARt Insitute, Kansas City |
| jan 19 - mar 30 2003 | Here and Now | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Kurhaus, Kleve |
| - 2003 | Calmaga | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga |
| - 2003 | Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism | A.o., Thomas Ruff | University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara |
| oct 23 2002 - apr 06 2003 | Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal |
| sep 18 - nov 03 2002 | Limits of the Perception | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fundació Miró, Barcelona |
| may 08 - aug 11 2002 | Das zweite Gesicht. Metamorphose des fotografischen Porträts | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Deutsches Museum, Munich |
| feb 15 2002 | formal social | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
| feb 09 - apr 01 2002 | In Szene gesetzt / Architektur in der Fotografie der Gegenwart | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musem für neue Kunst / ZMK, Karlsruhe |
| jan 26 - apr 21 2002 | Zwischen Schönheit und Sachlichkeit | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden |
| - 2002 | Heute bis jetzt / Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Düsseldorf | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf |
| - 2002 | Iconografias Metropolitanas | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Biennale von Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo |
| dec 08 2001 - feb 17 2002 | The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Contemporary Ars Museum, Houston |
| jun 21 - sep 11 2001 | Mies in Berlin | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| jan 20 - mar 11 2001 | Close Up - Zur Inszenierung von Nahsicht und Oberfläche | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover |
| sep 19 - dec 10 2000 | La arquitectura sin sombra | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporàneo, Seville |
| may 14 - aug 06 2000 | How you look at it. Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Sprengel Museum, Hanover |
| jan 30 - apr 29 2000 | 100 al 2000: il Secolo della Fotoarte | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Villa Impero, Bologna |
| jan 29 - mar 12 2000 | Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig |
| jan 16 - jul 02 2000 | L´Opera: Un chant d’Étoiles | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Théâtre Royale de la Monnaie, Brussels |
| - 2000 | Ex(o)Dus | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
| dec 19 1999 - mar 05 2000 | Collezionismi: la collezione della Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena |
| nov 19 1999 - jan 23 2000 | Le corps èvanoui, les images subites | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne |
| sep 05 - nov 07 1999 | Chronos & Kairos | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Fridericianum, Kassel |
| sep 04 1999 - jan 09 2000 | Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Altes Museum, Berlin |
| sep 03 - nov 07 1999 | Missing Link - Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
| jul 24 - sep 19 1999 | Transmute | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| jun 17 - oct 17 1999 | Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal |
| may 30 - sep 12 1999 | Face to Face to Cyberspace | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fondation Beyeler, Basle |
| apr 30 - jul 18 1999 | Space Place 300499 - 180799 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Tirol, Tirol |
| apr 19 - may 22 1999 | Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Architectural Association, London |
| mar 27 - may 24 1999 | Das Versprechen der Fotografie. Die Sammlung der DG Bank | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover |
| - 1999 | Digitale Photographie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Deichtorhalle Hamburg, Hamburg |
| - 1999 | Espace, modes d'emploi | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest |
| - 1999 | Flashes | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon |
| - 1999 | Le arti della fotografia | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Villa Mirabella. Varese |
| - 1999 | Visiones Urbaines | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie du TNB, Rennes |
| - 1999 | Zoom | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart |
| dec 22 1998 - jan 04 1999 | Under/Exposed | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Stockholm Underground, Stockholm |
| oct 31 - dec 27 1998 | Auf der Spur. Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich |
| sep 06 - nov 01 1998 | Artist’s Proof | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld |
| sep 04 - nov 01 1998 | Die Macht des Alters | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin |
| jul 07 1998 - sep 27 1990 | PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| jun 27 - sep 13 1998 | (ID)entiteit | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hessenhuis, Antwerp |
| apr 25 - jun 07 1998 | Arterias | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Konsthall Malmö, Malmö |
| feb 14 - apr 19 1998 | Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| jan 21 - mar 15 1998 | Artificial: Figuracions Contemporànies | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona |
| - 1998 | Anos 80 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Culturgest, Galerias do Edificio Sede da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon |
| - 1998 | BLICKWECHSEL | A.o., Thomas Ruff | ZKM / Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe |
| oct 01 1997 - feb 07 1999 | Kunst der Gegenwart | A.o., Thomas Ruff | ZKM Karlsruhe und Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe |
| sep 07 1997 - jan 11 1998 | Positionen künstlerischer Photografie in Deutschland seit 1945 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
| sep 07 1997 - jan 11 1998 | Positionen künstlerischer Photografie in Deutschland seit 1945 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
| aug 22 - oct 19 1997 | Der gestirnte Himmel | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen |
| may 06 - jul 27 1997 | Die Epoche der Moderne. Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
| mar 19 - aug 31 1997 | Silent & Violent | A.o., Thomas Ruff | MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles |
| mar 19 - aug 31 1997 | Silent + Violent | A.o., Thomas Ruff | MAK – Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles |
| mar 09 - apr 06 1997 | Pro Lidice | A.o., Thomas Ruff | České Muzeum, Prague |
| feb 28 - may 11 1997 | Veronica’s Revenge | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva |
| - 1997 | Another & another & another act of seeing (urban space) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Desingel - International Arts, Antwerp |
| - 1997 | Antlitz | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Salzburg |
| - 1997 | Der klare Blick | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
| - 1997 | :Engel, :Engel | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna |
| - 1997 | The European Face | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Weesper Synagogue, Weesp |
| - 1997 | Histoire de voir | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Château Lynch Bages, Pouillac |
| - 1997 | Mehr Licht | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi |
| - 1997 | Standort Deutschland | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
| - 1997 | Young German Artists 2 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Saatchi Gallery, London |
| - 1997 | by night | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris |
| - 1997 | Colorealism | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galleria Photology, Milan |
| - 1997 | Eternal Dialogue | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem |
| nov 22 1996 - jan 09 1997 | Herzog & De Meuron | A.o., Thomas Ruff | TN Probe Gallery, Tokyo |
| nov 09 1996 - jan 06 1997 | En helvetes förvandling | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kulturhuset, Stockholm |
| sep 11 - oct 27 1996 | Die Klasse | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich |
| jul 27 - sep 22 1996 | Jurassic technologies revenant | A.o., Thomas Ruff | 10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney |
| apr 04 - may 19 1996 | Spaced Out | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein München, Munich |
| - 1996 | Comsommation/Contemplation | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Le Carré - Musée Bonnat, Bayonne |
| - 1996 | Desert | A.o., Thomas Ruff | John Hansard Gallery, Southampton |
| - 1996 | Distanz und Nähe | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki |
| - 1996 | Helden? | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen |
| - 1996 | Ich Phoenix | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Gasometer Oberhausen, Oberhausen |
| - 1996 | Modena per la Fotografia | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galleria Civica, Modena |
| - 1996 | Project 8 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | TOTAL Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul |
| - 1996 | Ronald Jones, Nakis Panayotideis, Thomas Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | The Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art,
Crete |
| oct 07 1995 - feb 24 1996 | Artistes/Architectes | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Le Nouveau Musée - Institut d’art Contemporain |
| oct 07 - nov 12 1995 | The Act of Seeing (urban space) | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels |
| jul 08 - oct 29 1995 | L’homme photographié | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac |
| jul 08 - oct 29 1995 | RAM - Realität, Anspruch, Medium | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
| jun 24 - sep 10 1995 | 45° Nord & Longitude 0 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux |
| jun 20 - jul 29 1995 | Redefining Convention: German Art Now | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Haines Gallery, San Francisco |
| apr 01 - may 07 1995 | Westchor - Ostportal | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie im Marstall, Berlin |
| - 1995 | Arquitectures plurals | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre de Cultura, Palma de Mallorca |
| - 1995 | Die große Galerie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
| - 1995 | The European Face | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh |
| - 1995 | The Institute of Cultural Anxiety | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| - 1995 | Virtual Reality | A.o., Thomas Ruff | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
| - 1995 | Zimmerdenkmäler | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Blummenstrasse, Bochum |
| - 1995 | Kunst in Deutschland | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD in Bonn, Bonn |
| oct 22 1994 - feb 26 1995 | Facts and Figures | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles |
| sep 02 - oct 16 1994 | Aura. Die Realität des Kunstwerks zwischen Autonomie, Reproduktion und Kontext | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Wiener Secession, Vienna |
| sep 01 - sep 25 1994 | Revendo Brasilia neu gesehen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Teatro Nacional de Brasília, Brazil |
| may 26 - sep 04 1994 | Who’s Looking at the Family? | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Barbican Art Gallery, London |
| - 1994 | 1m = c.299 792 458 -1 s, | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Arteluku, Donostia-San Sebastian, San Sebastian |
| - 1994 | Beeld | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent |
| - 1994 | Bilder - Aspekte deutscher Fotografie nach 45, | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna |
| 1994 | Le corps en scène | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Institut Français de Madrid |
| 1994 | Junge deutsche Kunst der 90er Jahre aus NRW | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju |
| 1994 | Da-Zwischen/ENTRE-DEUX | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Konferenzzentrum Albert Borschette, Brussels |
| dec 12 1993 - feb 06 1994 | Kunst aus Wintermärchen - Deutschland | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
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| nov 13 1993 | Photographs from the Real World | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway |
| aug 29 - oct 31 1993 | Konstruktion Zitat - Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Sprengel Museum, Hanover |
| mar 25 - may 08 1993 | Die Arena des Privaten | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein München, Munich |
| - 1993 | Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Ludwig, Köln |
| - 1993 | Romaeuropa | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome |
| 1993 | L’angoisse de n’être qu’un homme | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre Culturel Paul Dumail, Tonneins, France |
| - 1993 | Distanz und Nähe | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
| - 1993 | Altro e Arte | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Palazzo Falconieri, Rome |
| dec 19 1992 - jan 24 1993 | Parallelaktion | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany |
| sep 19 - dec 01 1992 | oh! cet echo! | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre culturel suisse, Paris |
| jun 13 - sep 20 1992 | Documenta IX | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany |
| may 22 - sep 06 1992 | Périls et Colères | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France |
| feb 09 1992 | Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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| - 1992 | Surgence - Deutsche Fotobilder 1984-1991 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Altes Rathaus Potsdam, Germany |
| - 1992 | Qui, quoi, où | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
| - 1992 | Post Human | A.o., Thomas Ruff | FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; |
| - 1992 | Einsamkeit: Un sentimiento aleman | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Monasterio de Verula, Tarazona, Spain |
| jul 05 - sep 27 1991 | Sguardo di Medusa | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy |
| apr 20 - jul 21 1991 | Metropolis | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
| - 1991 | Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung 1980-1990 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstmuseum Basel - Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel |
| - 1991 | Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
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| - 1991 | Sguardo di Medusa | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Castello di Rivoli, Turin |
| - 1991 | In anderen Räumen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Haus Esters, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
| - 1991 | Entre terre et ciel | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Hôtel Ephémère, Paris |
| - 1991 | Elegia de la mirada | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Sala de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
| - 1991 | Aus der Distanz | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstsammlungen Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| - 1991 | Architektur von Herzog & de Meuron | A.o., Thomas Ruff | 5th International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice, Italy |
| - 1991 | Anni 90 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy |
| - 1991 | Une seconde pensée du paysage | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre d’Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguéhennec,
Bignan, France |
| - 1990 | Weitersehen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Haus Esters, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
| - 1990 | To be or not to be | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centre d’Art de Santa Mònica, Barcelona |
| - 1990 | Perspectives on Place | A.o., Thomas Ruff | University Art Gallery of San Diego, California |
| - 1990 | New Work: A New Generation | A.o., Thomas Ruff | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| - 1990 | Le Diaphane | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée des Beaux-Arts and Ersep-École d’Art, Tourcoing, France |
| - 1990 | La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Chateau d’Orion, Orion, France |
| - 1990 | Je est un autre. Part I | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon |
| - 1990 | Hacia el paisaje | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Spain |
| feb 11 - mar 04 1989 | Hilla & Bernd Becher, Fischli & Weiss, Thomas Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | 303 Gallery, New York |
| feb 11 - mar 04 1989 | Kopf an Kopf | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld |
| - 1989 | Tenir l'image à distance | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal |
| - 1989 | Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Thomas Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam |
| - 1989 | photo Kunst | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany |
| - 1989 | Mit dem Fernrohr durch die Kunstgeschichte. Von Galilei zu den Gebrüdern Montgolfier | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunsthalle Basel, Basel |
| - 1989 | Melancolia | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Grita Isam, Vienna |
| - 1989 | Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Photographie | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria |
| - 1989 | 32 Portraits – Photography in Art | A.o., Thomas Ruff | SDU and Contemporary Art Foundation, Kunstrai 89, Amsterdam |
| - 1989 | 1st Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen |
| nov 20 - dec 18 1988 | Bilder - Denda, van Ofen, Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld |
| jun 21 - jul 31 1988 | L’inventaire | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Manufrance, Saint-Étienne |
| - 1988 | Mapplethorpe/Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Mai 36 Galerie, Luzern |
| - 1988 | Mapplethorpe, Prince, Ruff, Wall | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| - 1988 | Impronte e Tendenze Nella Fotografia Tedesca Contempranea | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Goethe Institut, Turin |
| - 1988 | Presi X Incantamento: La Nuova Fotografia Internazionale | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
| - 1988 | BiNationale. Deutsche Kunst der späten 80er Jahre | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Kunstverein, Kunsthalle and Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf |
| - 1988 | Aperto 88 | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Venice Biennale, Venice |
| - 1987 | Gerdes, Jung, Klingelhöller, Luy, Mucha, Perrodin, Ruff, Schütte | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Nelson, Villeurban |
| - 1987 | Gerdes, Jung, Klingelhöller, Luy, Mucha, Perrodin, Ruff, Schütte | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Nelson, Villeurban |
| - 1987 | German Photography of the 80s: Remnants of Authenticity | A.o., Thomas Ruff | International Center of Photography, New York |
| - 1987 | Foto/Realismen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Villa Dessauer in Bamberg, Bamberg |
| - 1986 | Foto-Cliché, Gallery Victoria Miro, London | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Orchard Gallery, Derry |
| - 1986 | 7 Fotografen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1986 | Museum Folkwang Essen | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
| - 1986 | Das Auge des Künstlers - Das Auge der Kamera | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Pinakothek Ravenna, Ravenna |
| - 1985 | Katharina Fritsch, Bernd Jünger, Thomas Ruff | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Schneider, Konstanz |
| - 1985 | Studenten der Staalichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Jürgen Ponto Stiftung | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt |
| - 1984 | Thomas Ruff | Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruff | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| - 1984 | 4 Ausstellungen: Hütte, Jacquemerd, Ruff, Wegman | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| - 1983 | Laputa | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Gutenbergstrasse 62 e. V., Stuttgart |
| - 1982 | Ausstellung B | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Ausstellung B, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße, Munich |
| - 1982 | Work by Young German Photographers | A.o., Thomas Ruff | Art Galaxy, New York |