He also participated in the document exhibition in Kassel in 1987, 1992, and 1997. Schütte participated in the 2005 Venice Biennale, where he received a Golden Lion, a highly prestigious award for outstanding work. His Czech premiere in České Budějovice was preceded by an exhibition at Berlin’s Kolbe Museum and one in London, and New York’s Museum of Modern Art is planning a large retrospective showing in 2024. He has held countless exhibitions at leading galleries and institutions throughout the world, recently for instance at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2004), the Haus der Kunst in Munich (2009), the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (2010), the Serpentine Gallery in London (2012), Fondation Beyeler in Basel (2013), and the Kunsthaus Bregenz and Monnaie de Paris (both 2019). In the 1980s, he was a guest professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Thomas Schütte was born in 1954 in Oldenburg, Germany, and studied under Gerhard Richter and Fritz Schwegler at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. The most common questions that Schütte explores in his work are existential difficulties, cultural memory, the state of society and its many problems, and also people’s moods and efforts against the backdrop of their journey through life. Reflections on the human condition always form the core of his interest, regardless of his choice of subject or materials (predominantly steel, bronze, ceramics, and glass). A central theme in his work is man and architecture. ![]() ![]() ![]() Schütte, considered by many to be one of the most important representatives (along with Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor) of international sculpture today, creates not only sculptures but also drawings. It is a great honor to be able to present Thomas Schütte’s first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic.
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