Thomas Schütte
Thomas Schütte makes evocative, often disturbing alterations to familiar forms of expression like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture. His work explores the human condition, offering a critical perspective on social, cultural, and political issues and visually eloquent commentary on memory, loss, and the difficulty of memorializing the past.
Thomas Schütte (b.1954, Oldenburg) lives and works in Düsseldorf. He received among others the Golden Lion, 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and the Arnold-Bode-Prize, documenta, Kassel in 1990. He was part of the 5th edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017. Upcoming exhibitions include a retrospective at MoMA, New York. His work has been the subject of extensive solo exhibitions internationally, including Monnaie de Paris, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and DIA Center for the Arts, New York. He has participated in Glasstress, Venezia; bb4 - 4th berlin biennial for contemporary art; 51st Venice Biennale; documenta X, Kassel; documenta IX, Kassel; and documenta VIII, Kassel, as well as group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; LACMA, Los Angeles; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MCA, Chicago; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, among many others. In 2016 the Skulpturenhalle of the Thomas Schütte Stiftung, the largest and most ambitious realisation of an architectural design by Thomas Schütte, opened its doors in Neuss. The space serves as an archive for Schütte's work and as an exhibition venue for other contemporary sculpturers.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 03/24 Stevie Dix / Lexia Hachtmann / Friedemann Heckel / Erik Schmidt / Thomas Schütte / Jan Van Imschoot, MENSCHENBILD
- 04/22 Cecilia Edefalk / Fred Eversley / Asta Gröting / Lena Henke / Arturo Herrera / Ann Veronica Janssens / Tarik Kiswanson / Jean-Luc Moulène / Bojan Šarčević / Thomas Schütte / Nida Sinnokrot / Marianna Uutinen / Rosha Yaghmai / Dolores Zinny, Looking Through the Threshold
- 02/22 Thomas Schütte
- 11/21 Leonor Antunes / Rosa Barba / Michel François / Luis Gordillo / Rachel Harrison / Harriet Korman / Paul Mogensen / Thomas Schütte, 8/XXX
- 06/20 Hélène Delprat / Cecilia Edefalk / Asta Gröting / Kyungah Ham / Pakui Hardware / Iman Issa / Guillaume Leblon / Julie Mehretu / Laure Prouvost / Thomas Schütte, Basel By Berlin
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 04/17 Thomas Schütte, Thomas Schütte
- 09/04 Thomas Schütte, Thomas Schütte
- 1995 Janine Antoni / Kirsi Mikkola / Beate Passow / Pipilotti Rist / Albrecht Schnider / Thomas Schütte / Luc Tuymans, Menschenbilder (group show)
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News
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Retrospective , Museum of Modern Art, New York
29.09.2024–18.01.2025
Biography
Texts
- Paul Laster, Thomas Schütte, in: Sculpture, 14 June 2019.
- Mitch Speed: Thomas Schütte, in: Frieze d/e, 22 July 2017.
- Matilda Olof-Ors: Thomas Schütte: United Enemies, in: Thomas Schütte - United Enemies, Moderna Museet, 2017. Koenig Books, London.
- Ulrich Loock: Public Figure, in: Frieze d/e, Issue 8, February-March 2013.
- Marta Gnyp: Thomas Schütte, in: Zoo Magazin #27, February 2011 / January 2013.