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News – Thomas Schütte

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
    15 July - 1 November 2010

    This exhibition encompasses voluminous sculptures that reflect the life of ordinary people in everyday situations; architectural models; memorial sites; drawings and watercolours. The exhibition was planned in cooperation with the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE: HINDSIGHT

    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    17 February - 17 May 2010

    This important exhibition examines many aspects of Schütte’s practice from his homonym series that examines moments of human isolation, vulnerability and hopelessness, to the architectural models-designs that push to the extreme their ability to simplify and exaggerate, and which unintentionally provide viewers with a sense of protection and mental refuge. His works have at once a handcrafted and a utopian appearance to them. All of Schütte’s oeuvre is imbued with social and political questions, as well as his concern for the artist’s relevance to and place within society.

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE

    Haus der Kunst, Munich
    7 June - 06 Sept 2009

    This exhibition draws together different aspects of Schütte’s wide ranging practice and includes sculpture, painting, drawing, watercolour, etching and ceramics dating from the 1980s to the present.

  • THOMAS SCHÜTTE: EARLY WORKS

    THOMAS SCHÜTTE: EARLY WORKS

    Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Travelling from the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK)
    1 February - 20 April 2008

    This exhibition focuses on Schütte’s lesser-known early work. The artist himself has designated the space of time from 1975 to 1980 as a particular research period in his career during which, as a student in Gerhard Richter’s painting class, he gradually found his way to sculpture.

    Schütte’s research is characterised by a number of features, including self-depiction, clear rules and regulations, order patterns and permutations, and by a conceptual approach regarding the spatial context in which the work is presented, the contest between illusion and function, the disparity between inside and outside, and the interest in the mise-en-scène.