Rudy Burckhardt

♂ *1914-1999 / United States / Switzerland

Works

Solo exhibitions

A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens, 1943

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
14 Sep 2017 – 22 Nov 2017
In the Jungle of the Big City / Im Dickicht der Grossstadt

Photographs and Films 1932 – 1959

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
24 Oct 2014 – 22 Feb 2015
Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (US)
29 Nov 2014 – 10 Jan 2015
New York/Maine

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
16 Mar 2013 – 7 Jul 2013
Children

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (US)
2 Dec 2010 – 8 Jan 2011
New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
23 Sep 2008 – 10 Jan 2009
New York Moments from 1940 to 1975

Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, Paris (FR)
16 Nov 2007 – 22 Jan 2008
New York

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (US)
8 Jun 2006 – 28 Jul 2006
New York Moments

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (CH)
17 Sep 2005 – 22 Jan 2006
Selected Photographs

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (US)
8 Jul 2004 – 11 Sep 2004
A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
25 Jun 2002 – 5 Nov 2002

Group

HIT BY NEWS

Press Art from the Nobel Collection

Dox Centre Contemporary Art, Praha (CZ)
6 Mar 2026 – 23 Aug 2026

with Berenice Abbott, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Beni Bischof, Erwin Blumenfeld, Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Olaf Breuning, Daniele Buetti, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Raymond Cauchetier …
Territories of Waste

Über die Wiederkehr des Verdrängten

Museum Tinguely, Basel (CH)
14 Sep 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Lothar Baumgarten, Carolina Caycedo, Julien Creuzet, Agnes Denes, Eric Hattan, Barbara Klemm, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Diana Lelonek, Otobong Nkanga, Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, Ed Ruscha, Tejal Shah …
New York, New York

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
24 Jan 2019 – 13 Mar 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Lucienne Bloch, Andreas Feininger, Dave Heath, Chester Higgins, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barbara Morgan, Irving Penn …
Something in the Way

A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (US)
9 Sep 2016 – 19 Feb 2017

with Thomas Barrow, Andreas Feininger, William Henry Fox Talbot, Andre Kertesz, Tseng Kwong Chi, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Brett Weston
Taking It to the Streets

Montgomery Mus Fine Art, Montgomery (US)
16 Jul 2016 – 18 Sep 2016

with Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Lynn Saville
The Image Gallery Redux 1959-1962

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jan 2014 – 22 Feb 2014

with Lou Bernstein, John Cohen, Leonard Freed, Sid Grossman, Sid Grossman, Charles Harbutt, Dave Heath, Simpson Kalisher, Saul Leiter, Duane Michals, Enrico Natali, Charles Pratt …
Photography Rotation 8

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
13 May 2011 – 12 Mar 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Robert Adamson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Dimitry Baltermants, Lewis Baltz …
Mirrors and Reflection

Robert Anderson Gallery, New York (US)
17 Nov 2011 – 7 Jan 2012

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Lillian Bassman, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Robert Doisneau, Michael Eastman, Elliott Erwitt, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Fay Godwin, Andre Kertesz, Kimbei Kusakabe …
Stages for Sculpture

Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York (US)
19 May 2011 – 16 Dec 2011

with Eliot Elisofon, Arnold Newman
Glitz & Grime: Photographs of Times Square

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jul 2009 – 28 Aug 2009

with Olivo Barbieri, Lillian Bassman, Ted Croner, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Amit Epstein, Elliott Erwitt, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, William Klein …
New York at Night: Photographs from the Collection

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
12 Dec 2007 – 5 Mar 2008

with Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz, Dan Weiner, Garry Winogrand
Colossal

Bilder, Skulpturen, Schmuck

Galerie Reckermann, Köln (DE)
10 Dec 2004 – 10 Feb 2005

with Natascha Borowsky, Katharina Bosse, Constantin Brancusi, John Coplans, Bernhard Prinz
Life of the City

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
28 Feb 2002 – 21 May 2002

with Berenice Abbott, Jules Allen, Merry Alpern, Diane Arbus, Tom Arndt, Richard Avedon, Anthony Barboza, Richard Benson, Dawoud Bey, Katharina Bosse, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Roy Colmer …

Events

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Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR)
12 Nov 2006
Matinée mit Filmen von Rudy Burckhardt

Filmemacher und Künstler Hannes Schüpbach führt ins filmische Werk von Rudy Burckhardt ein und präsentiert eine Auswahl von kaum bekannten 16mm-Kurzfilmen von 1943 bis 1986

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
Revisiting the work of Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999)

Museum of the City of NY, New York (US)