Thomas Ruff
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: Harmersbach, Germany
Lives: and works in Dusseldorf.
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Staatlichen Kunstakademie in D�sseldorf under Bernd Becher, 1977-85
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RECENT
2005 Thomas Ruff, JPEGs, Mai 36, Zurich
Thomas Ruff, JPEGs, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2004 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Ruff, Arario Gallery, Chungnam, Korea [catalogue]
Galerie Johnen & Sch�ttle, K�ln, Germany
Thomas Ruff: Les Ouvres de la collection Pierre Huber, MAMCO Musee d�art moderne et
contemporain, Genf, France
2003 Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
David Zwirner, New York, NY
Philip Nelson, Paris, France
Thomas Ruff: Fotografias, 1979 - Hoje, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to Present. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Thomas Ruff: Hans-Thoma-Preis 2003, Hans-Thoma-Museum, Bernau, Germany
Thomas Ruff, Centrum Sztuki Wsp�lczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle, Munich, Germany
Nudes und Maschinen, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Thomas Ruff, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
Galerie Lia Rumma, Mailand, Italy
2002 l.m.v.d.r., Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Ruff, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany [itinerary: St�dtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus,
Munich, Germany; Irish Musuem of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Artium Centro Museo Vasco
de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain]
Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to Present, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
l.m.v.d.r., Galeria Estrany De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Identificaciones, Museo Tamayo, Mexico
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
Thomas Ruff, Artium Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Thomas Ruff, Essor Gallery, London, England
2001 Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Essor Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle, Munich, Germany
Thomas Ruff: Photographs 1979 to Present, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
[itinerary: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Museum Narodowego of Warsaw,
Warsaw, Poland] (catalogue)
Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany
Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
David Zwirner, New York, NY
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Johnen & Sch�ttle, K�ln, Germany
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RECENT
2005 Early Work by Gallery Artists, David Zwirner, New York, NY
The Experience of Art, Venice Bienalle, Venice, Italy
Art and Its Space, Benefit Auction, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Return to Space, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
SEX�in ART, Gallery SHO, Tokyo, Japan
Atlantic & Bucharest: Photography, Film, and Video: New Acquisitions, Kunstmusuem Basel, Basel,
Switzerland
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy
San Francisco International Art Exposition, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Adam Fuss, Thomas Ruff, James Siena, Richard Levy Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
Contemporary Visions, Museum Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron, Netherlands Architectural Institute,
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Regarding Terror: the RAF Exhibition, KW Institue for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2004 Architecture & Arts 1900/2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
The Explosive Photography, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York [catalogue]
A araneira, a collection, Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, Chile
Brainstorming: Topographie de la morale, Centre National d�art et du Paysage, �le de Vassivi�re,France
Climats, cyclothymie des paysages, Centre national d�art du paysage, Vassiviere, France
Close By. Time Space Architecture, Galerie Mai 36, Z�rich, Switzerland
Collection 002, Institut d�art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France [itinerary: Centre National d�art
Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Musee de Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France]
Contemporary Photography from the Harn Musuem Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,
Gainesville, FL
Contemporary Visions, Waino Aaltonen Musuem of Art, Turku, Finland
Faces, Places, Traces: New Acquisitions to the Photography Collection, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany [catalogue]
German Art Now, Das St�dtel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Metamorph. Trajectories, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Multiple R�ume (1): Seele � Konstriktionen des Innerlichen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden,
Baden-Baden, Geramny [catalogue]
Der Neue Blick in die Stadt, Architektur Biennale, Venedig, Germany
Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
l�ombre du temps. Documents et experimentations dans la photographie du XXe si�cle, Jeu de paume,
Paris, France
Paisaje y Memoria. Landscape and Memory, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderne, Las Palmas, Canary
Islands
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus, Kiev, Ukraine Take Five, Huis Marseilles, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Tour-Detours de Babel, Mus�e d�art Moderne et Contemporain, Gen�ve, Switzerland
Wirklich Wahr! Realit�tsversprechen von Fotografien, Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen, Germany [catalogue]
Yet Untitled: Die Sammlung Bernd F. K�nne, Kunsthalle N�rnberg, N�rnberg, Germany
ZBO-SdM052004. Subduktive Massnahmen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn, Germany
Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany [catalogue]
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RECENT SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005 Aletti, Vince. �Voice Choices�, The Village Voice, Vol. L No. 12. (March 23-29, 2005), p. C44.
Fanelli, Franco. �The Streamlined Biennalle� The Art Newspaper What�s On, no. 159 (June 2005), p. 10.
Elcott, Noam M. �Thomas Ruff.� Time Out New York, (March 31-April 6, 2005), p. 63.
Tully, Nola. �On the Surface of Things�, The New York Sun, Vol.120 No. 243 (March 31, 2005), p. 19.
�Market Update / Photography.� Art on Paper, (January/February 2005).
�This is Not a Production Error. Step Back 20 Feet.� New York Magazine, (March 7, 2005), pp. 70-71.
�Thomas Ruff, New Work,� Time Out New York, Issue no. 493, (March 10-16, 2005), p. 81.
�Thomas Ruff, New Work,� Time Out New York, Issue no. 496, (March 31-April 6, 2005), p. 63.
2004 Mosaic. (December 2004), ill.
Campbell, Deborah. "Paul Marks: The Collector in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Canadian
Art (Fall 2004). pp. 116-120.
2003 Aletti, Vince. �Thomas Ruff.� The Village Voice. (June 11-17, 2003), Shortlist, p. 71.
Birnbaum, Daniel. �Thomas Ruff talks to Daniel Birnbaum.� Artforum. 40th Anniversary Special Issue,
the 1980s, Part 2. (April 2003), pp. 218-219.
Douglas, Sarah. �Thomas Ruff: new work.� The Art Newspaper. Vol. XIII, No. 137 (June 2003),
Section 2, p. 5.
Fineman, Mia. �Big Hot Blurry Painterly Nudes!� The New York Times. (May 18, 2003), Section 2,
p. 1, 29.
Leffingwell, Edward. �Thomas Ruff at David Zwirner.� Art in America (November 2003) p. 166.[illustration]
McBreen, Ellen. �Thomas Ruff at Nelson.� ARTnews. Volume 102, No.6, (June 2003), pp. 128, 136.
Rehberg, Viviane. �Surface Tension.� Tate: Arts and Culture, Issue 5 (May/June 2003), p. 90-94.
Schwendener, Martha. �Thomas Ruff.� Time Out New York. (June 12-19, 2003), p. 65
Searle, Adrian. �The evil of banality.� The Guardian. (May 13, 2003).
2002 Eakin, Hugh. �Artists Blast Grothe over Photo Sales.� Art and Auction (February 2002), pp. 24-26.
[illustration]
Hosch, Alexander. �Licht! Kamera! Architektur!� Architectural Digest (06/2002), pp. 178-189.
[illustrations]
Morton, Tom. �Thomas Ruff.� Frieze. (January � February 2002), p. 91.
Withers, Rachel. �Mies van der Rohe: Just Add Style.� NU: The Nordic Art Review (1-2/2002) pp.
98-103. [illustration]
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2003 Hans-Thoma Preis, Hans-Thoma Museum, Bernau, Germany
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