Parallel to the exhibition by Thomas Schütte at the K21 in Düsseldorf, the Skulpturenhalle presents the group of 18 female figures that Schütte created between 1998 and 2006. These are women in bronze, steel and aluminium, through which Schütte addresses a theme that has played a central role in sculpture since antiquity and that was again taken up by leading artists in modernism.
With his women, Schütte engages with this eventful history and responds to it in his own way – tender and aggressive, ironic as well as elegiac. This series of sculptures, in which Schütte demonstrates his approach to the theme in terms of content, form and technique, was the motif for designing a sculpture hall suited to it.
Now the 18 women are once again fully on display for the first time in a long while, marking the tenth anniversary of the Skulpturenhalle. On a weekly rotation, six of the female sculptures are visible at a time, while the remaining twelve sculptures are covered with cloths.