Apart from his internationally famous sculptural work, Thomas Schütte (b. 1954) has been engaging with construction in the public space for over thirty years. In his intricate and meticulously detailed models, the artist adopts a critical approach towards prevailing architectural fashions in formal language and materials. He works away on archetypes of public buildings, or develops refined dwellings for individual people. His models are a bitter commentary on our time, both artistically and politically controversial. By placing his models on plinths and thus elevating them into monuments, Thomas Schütte shifts perception. Whether the artist abducts us to a holiday home or presents us with his design for a sculpture hall in which his own work is eventually to be collected – Thomas Schütte’s architectural works are always metaphors for his view of the world. The museum as crematorium, modernism as a ludic form of terrorism, the temple for individuals as retreat and prison in one. Thanks to the commitment of collectors, over the past few years it has been possible to build full-size versions of some of his models. The exhibition thus also engages with the scale of design and realisation, always inquiring into the human being for whom such buildings are conceived.