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Thinking in terms of models as a cultural practice and its significance for our experience of reality and engagement with the past characterise his entire artistic oeuvre. The photographs on display in the exhibition curated by B\u00e4rbel Vischer are the result of an intensive engagement with miniatures of theatre history, which condense space and dramaturgy and allow viewers to immerse themselves in the dream worlds of the stage in an almost abstract form. The newly created series is accompanied by a large-scale wall installation and light sources developed by the artist himself: foreground and background interact; model and idyll, cultural history and the present merge to form a staging of an idealised archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THOMAS DEMAND \u2013 Spaces that dream of yesterday<\/strong><br>27.05.2026 \u2013 24.01.2027<br>Wien, MAK \u2013 Museum f\u00fcr angewandte Kunst<br>Stubenring 5<br>1010 Vienna<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mak.at\/\">www.mak.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27.05.2026 \u2013 24.01.2027 Drawing on historical designs for stage sets \u2013 from Baroque stage designs to those of the turn of the century \u2013 Demand has developed a series of works specifically for the MAK, translating a selection of models from the Vienna Theatre Museum, the Nouveau Mus\u00e9e National de Monaco and the German Theatre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,301,305,77,300,227,283,226,342,285,352,79,25,345],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art-7","8":"category-art-6","9":"category-art-5","10":"category-gegenwartskultur-en","11":"category-current-5","12":"category-current-7","13":"category-current-6","14":"category-events-7-en","15":"category-events-5-en","16":"category-events-6-en","17":"category-media-art-visuals-graphics","18":"category-kreative-orte-en","19":"category-uncategorized","20":"category-vienna"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THOMAS DEMAND \u2013 Spaces that dream of yesterday \/ MAK Wien &#187; 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