Axel Hütte

Axel Hütte was born in Essen in 1951. Having studied under Bernd Becher at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie from 1973-81, Hütte is one of the leading proponents of The Düsseldorf School of Photography, a movement which contemporizes the tradition of documentary photography. He is currently based in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Central to Hütte’s practice is the concept of photographic ‘objectivity’, where an image’s impartial technological production is its primary ‘value’ or ‘truth’. In his city and landscapes, Hütte both enhances and complicates this overtly clinical approach to image-making by incorporating devices

more commonly associated with abstract painting, such as mathematically formulated compositions, heightened consciousness of the picture plane, and ‘all overness’ (where every part of the image is considered of equal importance). Breathtakingly beautiful yet emotionally detached, his works exemplify ideas of the contemporary sublime. Hütte’s museum exhibitions include Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MAGASIN Grenoble, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, ZKM, and Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Axel Hütte: Traces: London – Berlin, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2020
  • Axel Hütte: Fluorescent, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2019
  • Axel Hütte: Traces of Memory, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
  • Axel Hütte: Kosmos Tropical, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2018
  • Axel Hütte, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  • Axel Hütte: Far away – on the road, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2017
  • Axel Hütte: Night and Day, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Axel Hütte: Rheingau, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2016
  • Axel Hütte: Reflection, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
  • Axel Hütte: Strange and Familiar, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
2015
  • Axel Hütte: Shadows of Lights, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2009
  • Axel Hütte: Out of Darkness, Waddington Custot, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
  • Photographic Works, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Grandeur and Distance, Borusan Contemporary, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Perspektiven der Fotografie, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
  • They Are Uttered and Unfinished, All the Loves in the World II, Borusan Contemporary, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • The Five Elements of Nature, r/e projects, Madrid, Spain
  • The Dream of the Library, MGKSiegen, Siegen, Germany
  • Winterreise, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
  • Land__scope: Wide horizons Contemporary photography from the DZ Bank collection, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
  • True Stories: A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties: Part II, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (Goethestrasse), Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • True Stories. A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (Goethestrasse), Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • There will be light, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
  • Bernd, Hilla and the Others. Photography from Dusseldorf, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2018, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
  • Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • Photographs Become Pictures, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2016
  • My Phantasies, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Collection 13: Toward A New Museum Of Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
  • The Wood For The Trees…, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
2015
  • Düsseldorf Photography: Bernd and Hilla Becher and Beyond, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
  • German Art 2015, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  • Landscape in my Mind, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
2014
  • 40|10 Bilderwechsel, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • What is Contemporary in Contemporary Art?, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
  • De Marseillaise / Vijftien Jaar Verzamelen, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Les Plaisirs Démodés (The Old-Fashioned Way), Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
  • Group Exhibition of European and International Paintings and Sculptures, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
2012
  • German Photography 1960 – 2012: A Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2011
  • On Horizons– Set 8 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2010
  • 55 Years of Art in Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Photo Show 2010, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  • Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2009
  • Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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