Andreas Gursky’s oeuvre, encompassing well over 200 works, visualises complex constructions of reality, all of which are linked to social issues. Work, leisure, consumer behaviour, major events and financial systems have been addressed in his photographs over the course of several decades. Gursky’s eye is clinical, precise and consistently subjective. His compositions are technically and visually unique. The works visualise a facet and association-rich view of our globalised world. His interest in abstract image forms leads the artist to create pictures that are both full and empty at the same time.

—from the exhibition website, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig