Exhibition Details
In Thomas Schütte’s universe, intimate watercolors, monumental figurative sculptures, vivid ceramics, architectural models, and fully realized buildings stand side-by-side as inquiries into aesthetics, history, and culture. This exhibition, the most comprehensive in the United States of Schütte’s career, explores the dazzling variety of his work and locates the through lines that can connect a bunker to a bust.
Additional Details
Schütte considers his subjects and selects his materials while contextualizing them in a time and place: Germany at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. These stories encompass the personal and the historical. Schütte’s work challenges established artistic norms by revitalizing genres rooted in past traditions and making them relevant in the present and for the future.
Location
MoMA
11 West 53 Street, Manhattan
New York, NY 10019
Image: Thomas Schütte. Bronzefrau Nr. 17 (Bronze Woman No. 17). 2006. / courtesy of MoMA