THOMAS STRUTH
THOMAS STRUTH
(*1954, Geldern) studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf and was one of the students in Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photography class. Extensive solo exhibitions of his work have been shown, e.g., in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museo del Prado Madrid, the Museum Folkwang in Essen und the Haus der Kunst in Munich. From 1993–1996 Thomas Struth was the first professor for photography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. He was awarded the Spectrum International Prize for Photography of the Kulturstiftung Niedersachsen and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Royal Photographic Society as well as Foreign Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts. Many of Struth's works are represented in public collections, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Galleria d’Accademia, Florence, the Tate Gallery, London, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, und the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
THOMAS MEYER
(*1967, Delmenhorst) studied from 1990–1996 at the Academy of Arts in Bremen. 1996 BFF Advancement Award. 1999 solo exhibition KAUFLAND – RETAIL SPACES IN EASTERN GERMANY, Gallery of the School of Art, Yale University, USA. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2000. 2004–2006 photographer for the FAZ ad campaign “Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf”. Since 2008 he has taught at the Ostkreuz School of Photography. Solo exhibitions: INSIDE STASI (2009), Gallery Focale, Nyon, Switzerland; EXILE IN CALCUTTA (2014), Drik Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and in the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, India. Since 2019 he is the in-house photographer of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau. His book BAUHAUS DESSAU ARCHITEKTUR was published in 2019 by Hirmer Verlag, Munich.