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'Staatspreis NRW' 2025 for Düsseldorf-based photo artist Andreas Gursky
State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
4 November 2025
Renowned photographer Andreas Gursky is to receive the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia, the State Chancellery has announced.
Minister President Hendrik Wüst (CDU) praised the 70-year-old as a ‘master of photography and icon of contemporary art’. Gursky has not only set international standards with his monumental works, but has also championed the social significance of photography – for example, by founding the planned photography institute in Düsseldorf.
Photo: Alexander Romey
Andreas Gursky
11 October – 8 November 2025
Coinciding with Frieze London 2025, White Cube Mason’s Yard presents new work by Andreas Gursky, which delves into his interest in music and ongoing investigation into contemporary culture.
After an extended collaboration with a prominent English musician, during which he was granted exclusive on-stage access at live concerts, Gursky created a new image that serves both as a powerful contemporary document of youth culture and a compelling visual statement on global stardom.
White Cube Mason’s Yard
25 – 26 Mason’s Yard
London SW1Y 6BU
Image: Andreas Gursky, Komori, 2025
Andreas Gursky
Paris has always held a strong appeal for me. Even as a student, I drove my van to Paris, parked near the Eiffel Tower at the Champ de Mars and roamed the city for days.
—Andreas Gursky
Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of four photographs by Andreas Gursky—two new, one recent, and one from the beginning of his career in 1980—opening at 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris, on June 5, 2025.
Gursky’s photographs evoke the global flow of information, the chaos of contemporary life competing with the classical desire for order. He portrays the visual extremes of the present with objectivity, capturing built and natural environments on a grand scale in richly detailed images comparable to early nineteenth-century landscape paintings. Many have been digitally manipulated, and reveal a sensitivity to the damaging effects of human systems on the natural world.
Gagosian
rue de Castiglione, Paris
Installation view
Andreas Gursky: Paris, Montparnasse II, 2025
Andreas Gursky: Maledives, 2023
Photo: Thomas Lannes
Typologien: Photography in 20th-century Germany
“Typologien” is an extensive study dedicated to 20th-century German photography. The project attempts to apply the principle of “typology,” which originated in 17th- and 18th-century botany to categorize and study plants, and appeared in photography in the early 1900s, affirming itself in Germany throughout the 20th century. Paradoxically, the given formal principle allows for unexpected convergences of German artists spanning different generations and the manifestation of their individual approaches.
Exhibition view of “Typologien: Photography in 20th-century Germany”
(03.04.-14.06.2025)
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Photo: Roberto Marossi
Courtesy Fondazione Prada
Andreas Gursky: Untitled XVIII
Thomas Struth: various works
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
(Un)real
Masterpieces from Louisiana – works by international contemporary artists who shape, influence and shift reality as we know it.
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.
Exhibition view of "(Un)real”
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
(12.04.-19.10.2025)
Photo: Niels Fabaek
Andreas Gursky: Bangkok III and Qatar
Ai Weiwei: Trees
March 14–April 19, 2025
SPRÜTH MAGERS, New York
Andreas Gursky. Inherited Images
exhibition walk-through
video: Alexander Romey
March Events in New York
Sprüth Magers New York
From March 3-12, Anne Imhof takes over Park Avenue Armory with DOOM: House of Hope, her largest performative work to date. It features a cast of nearly 60 performers who create an all-encompassing experience in which visitors move on equal terms within the space.
This is followed by Andreas Gursky’s solo show Inherited Images at the New York gallery (March 14–April 19) that presents a selection of his well-known photographs set in an intertextual dialogue with Old Masters. The works reveal the artist’s inspiration by painting as genre which translates as conceptual approach rather than the actual image.
Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, electro pioneers KRAFTWERK will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first U.S. tour back in 1975 with a 30 city MULTIMEDIA TOUR including 2 concerts in New York City on March 13 and 14.
Images: Portrait Anne Imhof, 2024; Andreas Gursky, Lützerath, 2023 (detail) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562 (detail); KRAFTWERK, COMPUTER LOVE, USA TOUR 2025
Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski; Copyright: Andreas Gursky / ARS, 2025; Copyright Kraftwerk / Ralf Hütter
Andreas Gursky
Inherited Images
March 14–April 19, 2025 Sprüth Magers, 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 circumstances of modern-day life in condensed form. Interested in the workings of globalization, consumerism, and social phenomena as they relate to society, Gursky investigates 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.
In cooperation with Gagosian New York.
left: Andreas Gursky, Lützerath, 2023 (detail)
right: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (approx. 1525-1569), The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562 (detail), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
West Bund Museum, Shanghai Through February 16, 2025
Another Avant-Garde. Photography 1970-2000
The Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum project presents the exhibition Another Avant-Garde. Photography 1970-2000, featuring the highlights of the photography collection of the Centre Pompidou. For the first time in decades, key works from the period between 1970 and 2000 are presented together to revisit the established story of photography's success in the art world. Precisely by juxtaposing wildly different works, from small conceptual pieces to large tableaux, from single photographs to experimental video works, the exhibition proposes to look at the wide spectrum of artistic possibilities of the camera. In its selection of works from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and China, the exhibition expands the hitherto Eurocentric narrative of art photography and sheds light on common concerns of artists from diverse social and cultural contexts.
Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project
Temporary exhibition: Another Avant-Garde: Photography 1970 - 2000
Exhibition view, West Bund Museum
Copyright Photo: Alessandro Wang