Abstract
This thesis uses Stux Gallery as a case study to concretize contemporary art gallery culture and to explore some of the ideas on aging ruminating around the minds of artists, gallerists, and gallery-goers in the contemporary art world. These ideas are conjured and explored through formal and informal interviews with Stux's owner, Stefan Stux, and its director, Andrea Schnabl, as well as through discussions with Stux artists Miki Carmi and Thordis Adalsteinsdottir whose works discuss aging. The manifested thoughts are then juxtaposed to dominant anthropological and gerontological theories in order to probe the contemporary art world’s claim to be a hub of counterculture.