| 2006 |
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Click/Doubleclick - das dokumentarische Moment, Haus der Kunst, Munich |
| 2006 |
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BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
| 2006 |
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Bibliotheca Insomnia - Das Digitale Bauhaus II. Meisterwerke der Medienkunst aus der Sammlung des ZKM Karlsruhe, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar |
| 2006 |
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Thomas Ruff - The Grammar of Photography, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (Galleria in Piazza San Marco und Palazzetto Tito), Venice |
| 2006 |
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Helga de Alvear - Conceitos para uma colecção, CCB Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon |
| 2005 |
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'L'esperienza dell'arte', 51. Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Italia - Giardini, Venice |
| 2005 |
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'Surfaces/Paradise', Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnheim, NL |
| 2005 |
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'New Work', David Zwirner Gallery, New York |
| 2004 |
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'Thomas Ruff' Arario Gallery, Chungham, Korea |
| 2004 |
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'Telefonica's Contemporary Photography Collection', Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid |
| 2003 |
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Projektraum 3000, Kunst-&Ausstellungshalle Deutschland, Bonn |
| 2003 |
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Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto |
| 2003 |
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Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2002 |
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Thomas Ruff, Photographs: 1979 to present. Irish Museum Of Moder Art, Dublin |
| 2002 |
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Identificaciones, Museo Tamayo, Mexico (solo) |
| 2002 |
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Mies Van Der Rohe 1907-1938, CaixaForum, Barcelona (solo) |
| 2001 |
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The Anagrammatical Body. ZKM. Karlsruhe, Germany (solo) |
| 2001 |
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100 al 2000: il Secolo della Fotoarte, Photology, Bologna (solo) |
| 2001 |
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Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo) |
| 2001 |
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Enmanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel |
| 2001 |
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Galeria Helga de Alverar, Madrid |
| 2001 |
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Mies in Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2000 |
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How you look at it. Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
| 2000 |
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Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artist, Moscow |
| 2000 |
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LMVDR, Haus Lange - Haus Esters, Krefeld |
| 2000 |
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La Arquitectura sin Sombra. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville |
| 2000 |
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l. m. v. d. r. 2 , Fördererkreis Krefelder Kunstmuseen |
| 1999 |
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Cosmos. Del Romanticismo a la Vanguardia, 1801-2001. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona. |
| 1999 |
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Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 1998 |
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Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto |
| 1997 |
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Oeuvres 1979-97, Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
| 1997 |
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Galeria Estrany - de la Mola, Barcelona |
| 1996 |
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Portraits, Houses, Stars, Night, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1996 |
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JURASSIC technologies - revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australien |
| 1996 |
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Distanz und Nähe, Kawasaki City Museum |
| 1995 |
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Arquitectures plurals, Centre de Cultura, Palma de Mallorca |
| 1995 |
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Bremen; Lindenaumuseum in Altenburg; Museum Wiesbaden |
| 1995 |
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Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg |
| 1994 |
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Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| 1994 |
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The Act of Seeing (urban space), Fondation pour l'Architecture, Bruseels |
| 1993 |
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Image First: Eight Photographers for the '90s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe |
| 1992 |
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Einsamkeit. Un sentimiento alemán, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid und Barcelona |
| 1992 |
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Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne |
| 1992 |
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Galerie Mai 36, Zürich |
| 1991 |
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Kunstverein Braunschweig, Galerie d. Stadt Sindelfingen |
| 1991 |
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7 Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York |
| 1991 |
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Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Newport Harbor Art |
| 1990 |
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La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron |
| 1990 |
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Museum of Modern Art, Berkley |
| 1990 |
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Porträts, Häuser, Sterne, Centre National d'Art Contemporain - |
| 1989 |
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Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon |
| 1989 |
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Contemporary European Art, First Bank Skyway Gallery, Minneapolis |
| 1989 |
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Mediated Knot, Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago |
| 1988 |
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Bilder - Denda, van Ofen, Ruff, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld |
| 1988 |
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Fotografen, APAC - Centre d'art Contemporain, Nevers |
| 1987 |
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Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
| 1987 |
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Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne |
| 1986 |
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Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyon |
| 1985 |
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Künstlerische Photographie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Universitätsmuseum, Marburg |
| 1984 |
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Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| 1983 |
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Laputa, Gutenbergstrasse 62 e. V., Stuttgart |
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