Thomas Ruff – News

Thomas Ruff Included in the Ground Zero 360 25th Anniversary Exhibition
New York City Fire Museum, New York, United States
September 10, 2026-March 2027

Thomas Ruff Awarded The International Photography Lishui Award
Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, China
November 6, 2025

Thomas Ruff
Malkastenforum, Düsseldorf, Germany
November 16, 2024–April 21, 2025

Thomas Ruff Included in Size Matters: Scale in Photography
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
February 1–May 20, 2024

Thomas Ruff Included in the 2023 Chengdu Biennale
Jinniu Chengdu, Sichuan, China
July 16, 2023 - November 19, 2023

Thomas Ruff Included in Herzog & de Meuron at the Royal Academy London
Royal Academy of Art, London
July 15–October 15, 2023

Thomas Ruff Included in OUT OF THE BOX at Schaulager
Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
June 10–November 19, 2023

Everybody Talks About the Weather
Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
May 20–November 26, 2023

Dark Matter: Thomas Ruff and James Welling
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
November 5, 2022–March 5, 2023

Metaphotography
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
May 14–August 28, 2022

Thomas Ruff at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
September 12, 2020–February 7, 2021

Special Commission for the New V&A Photography Centre
October 12–November 27, 2018

Solo Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
The artist’s first major retrospective in London
September 27, 2017–January 21, 2018

Thomas Ruff Portraits
The National Portrait Gallery in London presents works from the artist’s acclaimed series
September 27, 2017–January 21, 2018

You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred
Group exhibition at the Zabludowicz Collection in London
March 30–July 9, 2017

Prix Pictet Nomination and Exhibition
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London
May 6–May 28, 2017

Japanese Traveling Retrospective
December 10, 2016–March 12, 2017

Object Relations
Solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
April 28–August 1, 2016

Comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany
Haus der Kunst, Munich
February 2–May 20, 2012