Andreas Gursky (*1955, Leipzig) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He was appointed Professor of Liberal Arts at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2010 until 2018. Solo exhibitions include his latest retrospective at MAST Bologna (2023), APMA Seoul (2022), MdbK Leipzig (2021), the reopening of the Hayward Gallery, London (2018) as well as exhibitions at the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2014) and at the National Art Center, Tokyo (2013), Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2013) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (2012). A solo exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York toured to Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MCA, Chicago and SFMOMA, San Francisco (2001). His first Retrospektive 1984–2007 was shown at Haus der Kunst, Munich and toured Istanbul Modern to Sharjah Art Museum (2007) and from Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2008). Another exhibition Andreas Gursky: Werke 1980—2008 at the Museum Haus Esters Haus Lange, Krefeld (2008) travelled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm and at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2009).

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