For this exhibition, Berlin-based artist Thomas Demand fuses the visual power of theatre and opera with his artistic methods. Using historical scenographic models as inspiration—including backdrops from the Baroque to the turn of the century—Demand created a series of bespoke works for the MAK that transposes a selection of models from the archives of the Theatermuseum, Vienna, and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco onto photographic media. His oeuvre is centered on the cultural practice of thinking in models and the way this imbues our experience of reality and our interrogation of the past with meaning.