Andreas Gursky (Leipzig, East Germany, 1955) studied from 1977 to 1980 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and from 1980 to 1987 at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Gursky has exhibited widely since the late 1980s. His major solo exhibition organized by the MoMa in New York in 2001 moved then to the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid the same year and, the following year, to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and, in the United States, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. The Haus der Kunst in Munich hosted another major retrospective in 2007, later touring Istanbul, the Arab Emirates, Moscow, and Melbourne. The exhibition “Andreas Gursky: Works 80–08” was held at the Museum Haus Esters Haus Lange, Krefeld (2008), and then travelled to Stockholm Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul (2022) and Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg (2021).