With Gregory Crewdson (* 1962 in Brooklyn, New York), the Kunstmuseum Bonn is presenting one of the most important international representatives of staged photography. His elaborately detailed photographs evoke the abysmal in the midst of the everyday familiar: In monumental format, the photographs show the intrusion of the uncanny and mysterious into the supposedly intact world of US suburbs. People act as if in a trance, mysterious lights appear in the night sky and crop circles in manicured lawns.

This comprehensive retrospective presents excerpts from all of the artist’s important photo series from the 1980s to the present day. Over 70 works provide an insight into his fascinating visual world, from his early artistic work to his best-known series Twilight and Beneath the Roses to his most recent works, which revolve around the decline of American society away from the big metropolises. Crewdson’s uncanny motifs are timeless and at the same time oppressively topical in the face of economic and social crises – not only in the USA.