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Thomas Schütte Museum of Modern Art 29 September 2024–18 January 2025 New York
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“I try to see one thing from five different viewpoints.” 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.

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. Since his student days at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Schütte has approached art with a critical eye. Exploring, then rejecting, Minimal and Conceptual art, his work “brought the story in again.” 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.

Organized by Paulina Pobocha, the Robert Soros Senior Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and former MoMA curator; and Caitlin Chaisson, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.

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About the Artist

Thomas Schütte (b. Oldenburg) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Gerhard Richter, Daniel Buren and Benjamin Buchloh. Influenced by minimal and conceptual art as well as music, theatre design and classical sculpture, Schütte’s installations, sculptures, prints, drawings and watercolours take different and often contradictory forms.

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an iconic institution located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, celebrated for its pioneering collection and innovative architecture. Renowned for housing one of the world’s most significant collections of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is a must-visit destination for art enthusiasts.

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Saturday-Thursday: 10:30am - 5:30pm

Friday: 10:30am - 8pm

(Summer Thursday: 10:30am - 8pm)
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