Exhibitions
Upcoming
Passants parmi les Pierres
curated by Thomas Demand
29/5/2026—6/9/2026
This international group exhibition, curated by German photographer Thomas Demand, is dedicated to representations of the relationship between the individual, architecture, and public space. The exhibition features photographs and films accompanied by legends written by the Austrian author Clemens J. Setz.
Thomas Demand (*1964, Munich) is a German conceptual artist and photographer. He became known for his method of reconstructing real locations based on media images as life-sized models made of paper and cardboard, photographing them, and subsequently destroying them. The photograph remains as the sole artwork.
Demand studied in Munich and Düsseldorf. His uninhabited, artificially staged scenes address themes of memory, perception, and the media construction of reality.
Since the mid-1990s, he has exhibited internationally and is represented in major collections worldwide. His solo exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005), the Fondazione Prada as part of the Venice Biennale (2007), the Hamburger Kunsthalle (2008), and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2009/10). Most recently, he has had solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2025), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2024), Esther Schipper, Paris (2023), and the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2023).
Thomas Demand has been Professor at the HFBK Hamburg since 2011 in the sculpture department with a focus on photography. He lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.
Clemens J. Setz was born in 1982 in Graz, where he studied mathematics and German studies.
Setz is known for his linguistically precise, often experimental texts, which explore themes such as perception, isolation, obsession, technology, and altered states of consciousness. In 2011, he received the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for his short story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes. His novel Indigo was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2012 and awarded the Literature Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Industry in 2013. His first poetry collection, Die Vogelstraußtrompete, was published in 2014. For his novel Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre, Setz received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2015. Three of his plays were invited to the Mülheim Theatre Festival, most recently in 2023 with Der Triumph der Waldrebe in Europa. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 2021 and the Austrian Book Prize in 2023. Clemens J. Setz lives and works in Vienna.
At the same time, the MAK Museum is presenting Thomas Demand's solo exhibition, which opens on May 26, 2026.
Thomas Demand (*1964, Munich) is a German conceptual artist and photographer. He became known for his method of reconstructing real locations based on media images as life-sized models made of paper and cardboard, photographing them, and subsequently destroying them. The photograph remains as the sole artwork.
Demand studied in Munich and Düsseldorf. His uninhabited, artificially staged scenes address themes of memory, perception, and the media construction of reality.
Since the mid-1990s, he has exhibited internationally and is represented in major collections worldwide. His solo exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005), the Fondazione Prada as part of the Venice Biennale (2007), the Hamburger Kunsthalle (2008), and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2009/10). Most recently, he has had solo exhibitions at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2025), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2024), Esther Schipper, Paris (2023), and the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2023).
Thomas Demand has been Professor at the HFBK Hamburg since 2011 in the sculpture department with a focus on photography. He lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.
Clemens J. Setz was born in 1982 in Graz, where he studied mathematics and German studies.
Setz is known for his linguistically precise, often experimental texts, which explore themes such as perception, isolation, obsession, technology, and altered states of consciousness. In 2011, he received the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for his short story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes. His novel Indigo was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2012 and awarded the Literature Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Industry in 2013. His first poetry collection, Die Vogelstraußtrompete, was published in 2014. For his novel Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre, Setz received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in 2015. Three of his plays were invited to the Mülheim Theatre Festival, most recently in 2023 with Der Triumph der Waldrebe in Europa. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 2021 and the Austrian Book Prize in 2023. Clemens J. Setz lives and works in Vienna.
At the same time, the MAK Museum is presenting Thomas Demand's solo exhibition, which opens on May 26, 2026.