Talk · Formare lo sguardo
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Formare lo sguardo:
Thomas Struth
In conversation with Urs Stahel and Michele Smargiassi
- Date
- Wednesday, 9 September 2026
- Time
- 6.30 pm
- Venue
- MAST.Auditorium
- Series
- Formare lo sguardo
FreeFree admission, booking required
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Thomas Struth is one of the leading figures of the Düsseldorf School and a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, alongside artists such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Tata Ronkholz, some of whose works from the MAST Collection were shown in the Foyer during the exhibition.
The talk is an opportunity to reflect on the legacy of the Bechers’ teaching method in Struth’s artistic development and to explore his more recent work, developed after the exhibition Nature & Politics, presented at MAST in 2019.
In conversation with Urs Stahel, curator of exhibitions on leading figures of the Düsseldorf School at MAST and at international institutions, and with journalist Michele Smargiassi, photography critic and historian.
Formare lo sguardo is Fondazione MAST’s series of talks on the influence of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the Düsseldorf School on the training, research and language of contemporary photography.
Thomas Struth
Born in 1954 in Geldern, Germany, he lives and works in Berlin. He began with painting before enrolling at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1973. His series include Unconscious Places, Familienleben (Family Life), Museum Photographs, New Pictures from Paradise and Nature & Politics.
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