Site-specific art – 274 inspiring examples

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Martin Kippenberger’s metro stations in the strangest places

Martin Kippenberger was one extraordinary artist who could make art using any available medium. His projects were nothing short of exploration, first of the models and then of the history. If there was ever a creative who successfully interrogated art from a political perspective, Martin Kippenberger was his name. Kippenberger used irony in his work [...]

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Why is Gelitin’s B-Thing troubling & mysterious?

Installations 5 min read

Gelitin is made up of four artists from Austria. At first, these four artists were known as Gelatin but changed their name in 2005. They are known for their intriguing projects. Amongst them is their pool installation on the roof of a museum or their gigantic plush boy, a 55-meter tall pink rabbit near Genoa [...]

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Olafur Eliasson – Your rainbow panorama, 2006-2011, glass in all the colors of the spectrum, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Your Rainbow Panorama: Immersing in Olafur Eliasson’s realm

Installations, Mixed media 3 min read

Olafur Eliasson is one of Scandinavia’s most-renown artists and holds significant influence in the global creative industry. Unlike many other his other works, Your Rainbow Panorama is a permanent installation and became a defining piece of his career. Visitors can access the building’s rooftop and get this large glass walkway formed in the color spectrum. [...]

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Erwin Wurm’s overweight Hot Dog Bus & 50,000 free sausages

Sculptures 4 min read

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm is known for his humorous approach towards his art production. One outstanding example is his recent work, for which he transformed a yellow VW Microbus into an overstuffed, larger-than-life Hot Dog Bus. He eventually used it to serve 50,000 free hot dogs to people at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in New [...]

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Allora & Calzadilla’s Chalk – What would you do with it?

Installations 2 min read

The two Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have worked together to make captivating artworks. Allora and Calzadilla are known for their interactive art pieces in public, often addressing social and political issues and engaging questions of history, geopolitics, and culture. Collaborating since 1995, most of their artworks combine video, performances, sound art and [...]

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Urs Fischer & You – The giant $250,000 hole

Installations 4 min read

Urs Fischer is a Swiss-born visual artist that now lives in New York City. His artwork includes installation, sculpture, and photography. Fischer has produced an enormous number of drawings, collages, room-size installations and other objects. One of his best-known works is You. You was an impressive installation, created by Urs Fischer in 2007 for Gavin [...]

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This was Ai Weiwei’s refugee life jacket installation

Installations 2 min read

Soleil Levant (2017) was created by well-known and revered Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. For this installation, Weiwei attached a total of 14,000 life jackets that had each been utilized by various refugees to the columns of Berlin’s Konzerthaus concert hall. Life Jackets was not the first installation created by Ai to highlight the [...]

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Olafur Eliasson’s fascinating colorful haze installation in Beijing

Installations, Light installations 3 min read

Feelings Are Facts was created as a result of a collaboration between Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong of MAD studio. Feelings Are Facts was constructed within one of the rooms at the UCCA galleries. It measured approximately 60m by 20m and featured a moderately slanted floor that progressively became steeper at [...]

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Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas really is 150m long

Sculptures 5 min read

Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor who is well-known especially for his large-scale sculptures and installations. His work does not entail and explore the human body but one of his finest creation Marsyas is an exception. A little about Anish Kapoor Many describe Kapoor’s work as enigmatic. He has been creating powdered pigment sculptures, a [...]

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Nigeria’s Makoko Floating School – Everything you need to know

Architecture 4 min read

Global warming has become one of the most prominent issues in today’s world. As a result, water levels are rising, and people who live in coastal communities have come across a series of challenges. However, some might not need to worry about it too much. Some architectural possibilities are emerging to help them adapt according [...]

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Lorenzo Quinn’s giant hands sculpture in Venice

Sculptures 3 min read

One of the most talked-about artworks in Venice Biennale 2017 was the monumental sculpture that was created by a celebrated sculptor called Lorenzo Quinn. He calls his work Support, which involves two giant hands rising from a canal to support the building that houses Ca’ Sagredo Hotel. The idea is to depict that the sculpture [...]

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This was Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion in Shanghai

Architecture 3 min read

What have seeds got to do with art? Well, Thomas Heatherwick did manage to preserve a big chunk of our plants within an art piece he presented at the UK pavilion at Expo 2010. Out of the 200 building exhibits on display, Heatherwick must have instinctively known that he had created a masterpiece. Alongside other [...]

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Joseph Beuys - I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974, installation view, Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler (Every human is an artist), K20, Düsseldorf, 2021 feat

Joseph Beuys locked in with a Coyote – I like America

Performances, Video art 3 min read

In the work of Joseph Beuys dubbed I Like America and America Likes Me, the artist is on a mission to illustrate that it is possible for human beings to coexist with nature. In this project of 1974, the artist is inspired by the belief that the union between men and nature must be restored. [...]

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Thomas Hirschhorn filled entire museum with garbage

Installations 2 min read

Thomas Hirschhorn has grown to become one of the most recognizable leading artists in the global contemporary art world. He gained fame in the 1990s thanks to his space-filling massive collages that were created from disposable materials. Influence & background Thomas Hirschhorn was born in Switzerland in 1957. Originally trained as a graphic designer, his [...]

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Olafur Eliasson’s Meditated Motion – A pond in a museum

Environmental art, Installations 3 min read

Throughout his career, Olafur Eliasson has participated in a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions worldwide. His works have been displayed in numerous private and public collections all over the world, including the Guggenheim Museum as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, just to name a few. Eliasson always includes his audience as [...]

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Why did Rachel Whiteread’s House earn her the title Worst Artist?

Architecture, Sculptures 4 min read

26 min How Rachel Whiteread became famous Is it possible to illustrate memory or lack of it? This is exactly what the sculptures made by Rachel Whiteread strive to achieve. She was born in London in 1963, where she lives and earns a living as an artist. In 1993, she had already made a name [...]

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Rem Koolhaas’ Prada Transformer – Brilliant & odd

Architecture 3 min read

The Prada Transformer is both brilliant and odd. Many people debate what it is between a fashion show stage, movie theater, or exhibition space. Well, it is all of them plus a film festival. The beauty of this structure is that the stage is not shared; each event uses up a different shape of the [...]

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Walter de Maria’s New York Earth Room – What makes it a crowd pleaser?

Installations 5 min read

Walter de Maria was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century having participated in four popular movements including installation art, minimalism, land art, and conceptual art. He was an astute artist who drew upon elements of sublime and mathematical absolutes in some of his installations and large-scale sculptures. Walter de Maria revolutionized [...]

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