| 2001 | Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gallery Zwirner & Wirth, New York |
| 1999 | Photographische Sammlung (Photographic Collection) - SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne |
| 1994 | Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster |
| 1993 | Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1991 | Gallery Ascan Crone, Hamburg |
| 1990 | DIA Art Foundation NY, New York |
| | Typologies, XLIV Venice Biennale, Kölnischer Kunstverein, other locations in Italy, USA and Germany |
| | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| | Gallery Max Hetzler, Cologne |
| | Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
| 1988 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| | Gallery K. Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| | Kunstverein, Munich |
| | Centre National d´Art Contemporain, Grenoble |
| 1986 | Art Gallery, Pittsburgh |
| | Chuo-ku, Tokyo |
| | Architecture Museum, Basel |
| 1985 | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1981 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| | Kunstverein, Siegen |
| | Bernd and Hilla Becher: Hochöfen (Furnaces), Hoesch Museum Dortmund |
| | Absage an das Einzelbild (Rejection of the Single Image), Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| 1980 | Gallery K. Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| | Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster |
| 1979 | Gallery Sonnabend, Paris |
| | Kunstraum, Munich |
| | Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal |
| 1978 | Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee |
| | Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal |
| 1977 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| | Halle für Internationale Kunst, Zürich |
| | Gallery Tanit, Munich |
| 1976 | Kunsthalle, Tübingen |
| | Gallery K. Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| 1975 | D. Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco |
| | Gallery Sonnabend, Paris |
| | Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn |
| | Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1974 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
| | Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven |
| 1973 | Sonnabend Gallery, Paris |
| | Gallery K. Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| | Gallery Forma, Genua |
| 1972 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| | Museum of Photography, Rochester (New York) |
| 1970 | City Museum, Ulm |
| | Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| | Gallery K. Fischer, Düsseldorf |
| 1969 | Anonyme Skulpturen. Formvergleiche industrieller Bauten (Anonymous Sculptures. Form Comparisons of Industrial Constructions), Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |
| 1968 | Institute Prof. K. Wachsman, Los Angeles |
| | Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven |
| | Gallery R. Nohl, Siegen |
| | Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
| 1967 | Industriebauten 1830-1930. Eine photographische Dokumentation von Bernd und Hilla Becher (Industrial Constructions 1830-1930. A Photographic Documentation by Brend and Hilla Becher), The New Collection, Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Munich |
| 1966 | State Art Academy, Düsseldorf |
| 1965 | Pro Gallery, Bad Godesberg |
| 1963 | Gallery R. Nohl, Siegen |
| 2004 | Early works, Andre Simoens Gallery, Knokke |
| 2002 | The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | Augenblick - Foto/Kunst in der Sammlung Essl (Moment - Photo/Art in the Essl Collection), Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria |
| | Positionen der Fotografie (Positions of Photography), Gallery Fahnemann, Berlin |
| | documenta 11, Kassel |
| 2001 | Pathos der Sachlichkeit - Industrielandschaft in Meisterwerken der Fotografie (Pathos of Objectivity - Industrial Lanscape in Masterpieces of Photography), Ludwig Gallery Palace, Oberhausen |
| | Erstpräsentation (First Represantations), Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen |
| | Art Fashion, Weimar Art Collections, Schlossmuseum, Weimar |
| 2000 | How you look at it, Sprengel Museum, Hannover |
| | Contemporary Art from Germany - German Festival in India 2000-2001, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai |
| | Birla Academy of Art & Culture, Calcutta |
| | HausSchau. Das Haus in der Kunst (House Show. The House in Art), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
| 1999 | Bilder, Fotografien und Handschriften (Pictures, Photography and Manuscripts), Volker Kahmen Collection, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| | Zwischen Abbildung und Experiment (Between Depiction and Experiment), Garnatz Collection, Karlsruhe |
| 1998 | Deep Storage - Collecting, Storing and Archiving in Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York |
| | Signaturen des Sichtbaren - Ein Jahrhundert der Fotografie in Deutschland (Signatures of the Visible - A Century of Photography in Germany), Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt |
| 1997 | Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland seit 1945 (Positions in Art Photography in Germany Since 1945), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
| | summer-visitors, Gallery Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld |
| 1995 | Scharfer Blick (Penetrating Gaze), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn |
| 1992 | Photographie der deutschen Gegenwartskunst (Photography in Germany Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| 1991 | Aus der Distanz (From a Distance), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| 1989 | Museum Ludwig, Köln |
| | Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris |
| 1988 | Centro de Art Reina Sofía, Madrid Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 1984 | Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. |
| | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1983 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| | ARS 83, Helsinki |
| | Photography in Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
| 1982 | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| | documenta 7, Kassel |
| 1979 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| | Biennale of Sydney, Sydney |
| | Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf |
| | Kunstverein, Kassel |
| 1978 | Halle für Internationale Kunst, Zürich |
| | Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe |
| | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | documenta 6, Kassel |
| | Biennale, Sao Paulo |
| | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| | Gallery Philomene Magers, Bonn |
| | Tendenzen der Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Trends in Art in the Federal Republic of Germany), Budapest |
| | Visual Art Museum, New York |
| | Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington |
| 1976 | Centre d´Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux |
| | Musée Rennes, Rennes |
| 1975 | Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
| 1974 | Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| | Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
| 1973 | Incontri Internazionali d´Arte, Rom |
| 1972 | documenta 5, Kassel |
| 1971 | Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf |
| 1970 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1969 | Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf |
| | Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen |
