Sky’s the Limit for Andreas Gursky
A new show at White Cube London celebrates the German photographer’s ambitious eye.
Summary
- White Cube Mason’s Yard in London is currently presenting an eponymous Andreas Gursky exhibition, now on view through November 8
- The show spans his earliest works to his most recent, including photographs from his new chromo capsule series
For Andreas Gurksy, the German photographer known for his larger-than-life, digitally altered images, “impossible” is just a word. Each of his massive photographs begins as a series of images, often shot across multiple locations, and is later meticulously stitched together to form a single, seamless composition. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he shared that, on average, he can only complete three a year. “You can’t get bigger technically.”
Now on view at White Cube Mason’s Yard in London, Gursky’s latest exhibition brings forth what he calls his most varied showcase to date. Running through November 8, the presentation features some of his earliest works, new large-scale pieces and a selection of photographs from his recent chrono capsule series, revisitations of early sites that capture change and the passage of time.
Highlights include “Harry Styles” (2025), a four-meter-wide panorama created in collaboration with the British pop star. Puzzling together imagery from concerts in Bologna and Frankfurt, the piece figures each fan in deft precision. With his back facing the camera, the piece turns attention away from Styles and onto the crowd of singing concertgoers, seen as a constellation of unique individuals.
In another standout work, “Paris, Montparnasse II” (2025), a chromo capsule remagination of one of his most recognizable images of Jean Dubuisson’s Immeuble d’habitation Maine-Montparnasse II, Gursky uses a similar digital manipulation technique to render the building’s façade with “an analytical, almost forensic clarity,” the gallery wrote, “transforming figurative elements into formalist patterns.”
Throughout, Gursky traces the intersections of humanity, technology and nature, reveling in the tension and fragility that informs our contemporary world. For all their complexity, his images manage a balance between critique and genuine wonder, highlighting the “threat and destruction but also the beauty.”
White Cube Mason’s Yard
25–26 Mason’s Yard,
London SW1Y 6BU
