THOMAS STRUTH: PHOTOGRAPHY 1978 - 2010

Thomas Struth photographs invite us to re-examine the way we see art.
Serralves and Samsung invite you to try a new way of visiting the Museum:
ask for the Samsung Galaxy tablet in the Reception of the Museum, free of charge.

The multimedia tour includes videos from João Fernandes, the Director of the Museum, from James Lingwood, the curator of the exhibition and from the artist himself, Thomas Struth.
A guide and complement to your visit, so that you know more about what you're seeing - new perspectives about the photographs, the artist and his work.

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art will feature one of the great oeuvres of the art of our time bringing to Portugal for the first time one of the most extensive anthological shows of Thomas Struth’s work.

For over thirty years Thomas Struth has constructed an oeuvre where photography assumes the condition of an impressive visual essay on the world we live in and on its times and places. In fact, here photography is never limited to its iconographic condition. From the city series to the images of green “paradises”, from his portraits of families to those of museum goers, from museum photographs to the photographs of faraway or inaccessible locales such as certain docks or shipyards in Asia, the Cape Canaveral space station or particle accelerator laboratories, Thomas Struth’s photography has built an analytical corpus of the globalised society that characterises contemporary civilization.

Curator: James Lingwood
Exhibition organized by: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Co-produced by: Whitechapel Gallery, London

Download the exhibition guide (bilingual) HERE.

GUIDED TOURS:

24 NOV (Thu), 18h30 by Ricardo Nicolau
03 DEC (Sat), 15h30 by Ricardo Nicolau (exclusive for Amigos de Serralves)
02 FEB (Thu), 18h30 by Ricardo Nicolau

Saturdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.,guided tours by the Educational Service, in English.