Oberflächen, Tiefen : 21. Mai bis 13. September 2009, Kunsthalle Wien =

Thomas Ruff is one of today's most important photographers, his projects ranging from portraits and interiors to telescope and space probe pictures, and 'night sight' photography. The exhibition Surfaces, Depths at Kunsthalle Vienna (May - September 2009) features 150 works from the last 25 years including his series of large-format portraits from the 1980s, for which Ruff received international acclaim, and his architectural photographs of buildings by Herzog & de Meuron. The show focuses on his most recent Cassini and Zycles series. Digitally processing images of the planet Saturn and its moons from the NASA website, Ruff explores the notions of the exemplary, of reality, and of the zeitgeist.