Considered one of the most influential photographers of his generation, Juergen Teller is renowned for his raw, intimate, and unconventional style, which blurs the lines between fashion photography, portraiture, and contemporary art. Rejecting traditional standards of retouching and staging, his work is defined by a deliberately natural and imperfect aesthetic, emphasizing authenticity, humor, and vulnerability.
His collaborations with prestigious fashion houses such as Marc Jacobs, Céline, and Vivienne Westwood have redefined advertising, infusing campaigns with a provocative and artistic sensibility that has become iconic. His self-portraits and photographs of loved ones explore themes such as identity, everyday life, and aging with a deeply personal and honest approach.
Born 1964 in Erlangen, Germany
Lives and works in London, UK
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
you are invited. Juergen Teller, Onassis Ready, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
Juergen Teller, Palazzo del Giardino, Sabbioneta, Italy
2024
Juergen Teller: Where We Come From, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Juergen Teller: I Need to Live, Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy
2023
Juergen Teller: The Myth, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, Paris, France
Juergen Teller: Portraits, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2022
Auguri, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
JUERGEN TELLER, Grand Palais Éphémère, Champ de Mars, Paris, France
2021
Juergen TELLER + Harmony KORINE | WILLIAM EGGLESTON 414, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
What Are We Talking About?, SKP T-10, Beijing, China
Juergen Teller. Auguri, Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery, Paris
2020
Juergen Teller, Grisebach, Berlin, Germany
2019
ARAKI TELLER. Life and Death, AM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Heimweh, König Gallery x MCM Ginza Haus I, Tokyo, Japan
Steidl Wunderbar Together pop up tour, Atlanta, St. Louis, Portland, USA
The Parents‘ Bedroom Show, Spazio Ridotto, Venice, Italy
Demelza Kids, Bonhams, London, England
Handbags, Museo Villa Pignatelli, Naples, Italy
2018
Zittern auf dem Sofa, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Enjoy Your Life!, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Juergen Teller: Zittern auf dem Sofa, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Juergen Teller, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Leg, Snails and Peaches, Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2017
Enjoy Your Life!, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Go-Sees, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Juergen Teller x Vivienne Westwood, Vivienne Westwood showroom, New York
Juergen Teller, Great Arch Hall, Photo London, Somerset House, London
Juergen Teller: Teller Ga Kaeru, Blum & Poe Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Juergen Teller, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
2016
Enjoy Your Life!, Budeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
The Clinic, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Juergen Teller and Xiang Jing, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Kanye, Juergen and Kim, Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Juergen Teller, Phillips, London, UK
2014
Macho, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Bus Stops, The Strand, London, UK
I am Fifty, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Araki Teller Teller Araki, OstLicht: Galerie für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria
2013
Woo, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2012
The Girl with the Broken Nose, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Juergen Teller, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Irene im Wald, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bilder und Texte, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London, UK
2011
Man with Bandana, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Paradis, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Texte und Bilder, Galerie Christine König, Vienna, Austria; Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania; Moscow House of Photography, Russia
Touch Me, Daelim Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Men and Women, 032c Workshop, Berlin, Germany
2010
Calves and Thighs, Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain; Touch Me, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2009
Logisch! Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Paradis, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Teller, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2008
Ukraine, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Nürnberg, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
2007
Awailable, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006
Do You Know What I Mean?, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Nürnberg, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
2005
Louis XV, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2004
Ich bin vierzig, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Master, Modern Art, London, UK
Go-sees and World Cup Final, Germany v Brazil 0-2, Temple Bar Visual Arts, Dublin Ireland
2003
Daddy You’re So Cute, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Tracht, Kuntsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Don’t Suffer Too Much, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Zwei Schäuferle mit Kloß und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2001
Märchenstüberl, Modern Art, London, UK; Fotomuseum, München, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2000
Juergen Teller, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
1999
Go-Sees, Pitti Immagine Discovery, Florence, Italy
1998
Juergen Teller, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Der Verborgene Brecht, Ein Berliner Stadtundgang, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
1996
Telford Rd Studio, Taschen, London, UK
1993
Juergen Teller, Festival de la Mode, Monaco, France
1992
Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo, Japan
Selected group exhibitions
2025
The Artist is Naked, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Hello Image: The Staging of Things, MK&G Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Guiding Thread, Suzanne Tarasiève, Le Marais, Paris, France
2024
Beyond Fashion, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2023
Channeling, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2022
For the Record-Photography and the Art of the Album Cover, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Football: Sport and Spectacle, Design Museum, London, UK
Beyond Fashion, ALT.1 Hunday Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Alter + Ego, ERES Foundation, Munich, Germany
2021
Botticelli, his time and our time, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy
Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion?, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
Captivate! Fashion Photography from the 1990s, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
E/Motion. Fashion in Transition, MoMu Fashion Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
VOGUE PARIS 1920 – 2020, Palais Galliera, Paris, France
FASHION?! How Fashion becomes Fashion, Wurttemberg State Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
La Bohème, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2020
Me, Myself and I (online exhibition), Christine König Galerie, Vienna
30 Years: A Short Century (online exhbition), Christina König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
#Cute – Inseln der Glückseligkeit?, NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Exhausted Man, Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
FASHION?! How Fashion becomes Fashion, Wurtemberg State Museum Stuttgart, Germany
Everyday Heroes, Southbank Centre, London, UK
VARIOUS OTHERS 2020, Galerie Klüser hosting Christine König Galerie, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Photographers… Artists and the Snap Cardigan, agnès b., New York, USA
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
2019
Dior: From Paris to the World, Dallas Museum of Art, USA (forthcoming)
Beyond Fashion, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, Touring show produced by Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography
2018
The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the works of Nobuyoshi Araki, Museum of Sex, New York
London Calling, Musée de la civilization, Québec, Canada
Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography 1911-2011, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
For the Love of the Game, Magasins Généraux, Paris-Pantin, France
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
Dr. Hogg’s Divine Disorder, an Exhibition of Art, Fashion and Photography, The Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The Moment is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
The Quick and the Dead: Hambling-Horsley-Lucas-Simmons-Teller, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Exposed: The Naked Portrait, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dior: From Paris to the World, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
2017
Parliament, Boris Mikhailov and Juergen Teller, Ukrainian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
I AM A PROBLEM. Staged by Ersan Mondtag, MMK 2, Museum für moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
Aging Pride, Museum Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
La Vie Simple – Simplement la Vie, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany
Claudia Schiffer, Camera work, Berlin, Germany
Christian Dior, Couturier Du Rêve, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Boris Mikhailov ‘Parliament’, Ukrainian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Italy
Kiss, Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, Germany
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France
The Inner Skin: Art and Shame, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Dio Horia: The 21 Project, Twenty One art hotel restaurant, Athens, Greece
Pink, Colette Concept Store, Paris, France
2016
Get a Life: Vivienne Westwood, K11 Shanghai Xinshiyi Art Center, Shanghai, China
Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
Artistic Differences: Judy Blame, ICA, London, UK
Vogue 100: A Century of Style, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Faces Now: European Portrait Photography Since 1990, Les Berges Park, Paris, France,
Faces Now: European Portrait Photography Since 1990, CentroCentro/PHotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
La Grande Galerie du Foot, La Villette, Paris, France
I Still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
2015
Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Hong
Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Faces Now: European Portrait Photography Since 1990, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; The Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, National Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece
Earth Matters: When Natural & Creative Forces Meet, Artipelag Art Gallery, Värmdö, Sweden
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Love and Loss: Fashion and Mortality, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
Free the Night, Westminster tube station with Annin Arts and TFL, London, UK
The Belgians: An Unexpected Fashion Story, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Station to Station, Barbican, London, UK
A Lie about a Lie, a Truth about The Truth, Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Violence and Destruction, 6th Fotofestival, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany
Louis Vuitton Series 3, 180 The Strand, London, UK
2014
We’ve Got The Look! Juergen Teller & Studierende Der Adbk, Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany
Rich Pickings: Photography and Wealth, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Paparazzi! Photographers Stars and Artists, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfürt, Germany
Space, 625 Amin Street, Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA
Baroque, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Dior – The Legendary Images, Christian Dior Museum Granville, Normandy, France
Darren Bader: Photographs I Like, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
More Material: Duro Olowu, Salon 94, Bowery Gallery, New York, USA
Deste Fashion Collection: 1 To 8, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Under the Skin, Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong
Today’s Specials, Pace Gallery, London, UK
How Soon Was Now, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2013
Mannequin – le Corps de la Mode, Cite de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France
Dark Blue: Water as Protagonist, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
Riotous Baroque, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary; Tate St. Ives, UK
Sarah Lucas: SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble, Whitechapel Gallery, London UK
Masculine/Masculine: The Nude in Art from 1800-Present Day, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
2012
Duro Olowu: Material, Salon 94, Freemans Alley Gallery, New York, USA
Riotous Baroque, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Night in Twilight: Art from Romanticism to the Present, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Charlotte Rampling: Albums Secret (Touring show 2012-2013), Maison Europeenne de la Photographie Paris, France; La Maison Photographie, Lille, France; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mannequin – le Corps de la Mode, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography, V&A Touring exhibition Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton; The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
2011
The Last Grand Tour, Cycladic Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Snap, Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, UK
Mash-Up, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece
Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George and Juergen Teller, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Making it Up As We Go Along: 20 Years of Dazed and Confused magazine, Somerset House, London, UK
The Deer, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2010
Ultramegalore, Modemuseum, Hasselt, Belgium
Not in Fashion, MMK Museum, Frankfürt, Germany
A Star is Born, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Was ist Schön?, Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
A Positive View, Somerset House, London, UK
2009
John Kobal New Work Award, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
Shoot, Parco Factory, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
Das Gelände, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Fashion in the Mirror, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
2007
A Poem about an Inland Sea, Ukrainian Pavilion, Palazzo Papadopoli, Venice Biennale, Italy
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
Das Gelände, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Fashion in the Mirror, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Being Beauteous, White Space Gallery, London, UK
Allusive Moments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006
Click double Click, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Dark, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sound and Vision, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy’
Woman as the Object: Female Myths and Metamorphosis 1900-2005, City Hall of Vigevano, Vigevano, Italy
La Force de I’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Futbol, Roebling Hall, New York, USA
Click double Click, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Vivienne Westwood Shoes 1973–2006, Castello di Vigevano, Vigevano
Defamation of Character, PS1 Gallery, New York, USA
The Kate Show, The Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fashion Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2005
Coolhunters, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Rundlederwelten, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
The Difference in Temperature Between Your Body and Mine, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy
2004
Fashioning Fiction: Photography since 1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Il Nudo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2003
The Fleeting Moment Between Photography and Cinema, Fondazione Torino Museum, Turin, Italy
2001
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK
2000
Empresa Fotografica, Programa Centro de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Living in the Real World, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
90 x 60 x 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
1999
Mayday Communities, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
1996
2 Kiss, Paris, France
Jam–Exhibition of Street Cultures, Barbican New York Academy of Art Exhibition for HIV Charity, New York
New Universe, Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Positive View, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Festival de la Mode, Paris, France and Biarritz, France
1993
Juergen Teller, Festival de la Mode, Monaco
1992
Juergen Teller, Fashion Exposures, London, United Kingdom
1991
Juergen Teller, Festival de la Mode, Budapest, Hungary
1990
Juergen Teller, Festival de la Mode, Deauville, France
Ten photographers for the next ten years, Tempo Magazine, Hamburg, Germany British Council at Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
