Thomas Ruff : lichten

This exhibition comprises five series of photos by the German photographer Thomas Ruff (1958, Zell am Harmersbach) ranging from the start of his artistic career in the late 1970s to recent work in 2014. As one of the protagonists of the Dusseldorf School of Photography he became most widely known for his portraits, several of which are in the S.M.A.K. collection. The selection of photos being shown under the title ‘Lichten’ takes as its philosophical and scientific thread the spectrum between natural and virtual light – a fundamental shift that has taken place in the medium of photography over the last thirty years.