Until January 25, 2026, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation presents the exhibition “Harry Gruyaert. A World in colour”.
Comprising around 120 images from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the retrospective is the most extensive presentation of Gruyaert’s oeuvre in Germany to date. Alongside well-known photographs taken during his travels, the exhibition also features early black-and-white works from his native Belgium and images from his “Rivages” series.
Harry Gruyaert created most of his extensive body of work in countries such as Egypt, India, Morocco, the US, Russia, Spain or France. With his extraordinary sense for composing colour and space, he captures landscapes and urban scenes, emphasising contrasts: the impressive play of light and shadow in an airport terminal, the intense yellow of an American vintage car, the vibrant colours of Moroccan streets or the more muted tones of Belgian landscapes. Gruyaert discovers these mostly cheerful, occasionally melancholic splashes of colour even where they would go unnoticed by most passers-by and applies them to shape his motifs’ compositions in a fascinating way.
Harry Gruyaert. A World in colour
Until January 25, 2026
Deutsche Börse AG, The Cube
Mergenthalerallee 61
65760 Frankfurt/Eschborn.
https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/
