Site-specific art – 274 inspiring examples

See how Jim Lambie’s hypnotic floor installations transform rooms

Jim Lambie is a visual artist, sculptor, and musician. He is perhaps most famous for his colorful and mesmerizing floor tapestries. Lambie’s floor art is done using differently colored duct tape that runs in straight lines to form colorful repetitive patterns that change the visual dynamics of a space in a big way. For this [...]

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These are Anselm Kiefer’s teetering towers

Architecture, Paintings, Sculptures 6 min read

German artist Anselm Kiefer has long maintained a studio at Barjac in southern France, where he assembled his large sculptures and painted some of his dark, disturbing canvases. Now he has abandoned the site, with the wish that it be allowed to “revert to nature.” People exploring the site have been struck by these towers [...]

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Iran do Espírito Santo’s concrete Playground in New York

Architecture, Sculptures 2 min read

Iran do Espírito Santo has over the years managed to become one of the most fascinating contemporary artists not just in Brazil, but in the world as well. Today, he is primarily celebrated for his minimalist projects that cover issues of design, place, surface, structure and material. By using abstracted day-to-day objects, his installations assume [...]

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Anish Kapoor’s whirlpool – Everything you need to know

Installations 3 min read

This installation by Anish Kapoor is a depiction of the fluidity and motion of water as a liquid mass and the void into which it descends. Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful physical form that is sucked into [...]

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Tokujin Yoshioka’s Rainbow Church – The liberation of light

Installations, Light installations 3 min read

Rainbow church is aptly named and refers to an eight-meter-high installation that creates a rainbow as light is refracted within its space. The installation is a wall of crystal prism that throws off rainbows to anyone within the installation space. The 500 crystal prisms that make up the installation allow light passing through them to [...]

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Keith Haring’s subversive Berlin Wall mural – The story behind

Murals, Paintings 2 min read

As an outspoken social rights activist, Keith Haring was not one to shy away from controversy. His Berlin Wall Mural is just that – controversial and provocative. In fact, Haring himself told The New York Times that the mural was a “subversive” act that was meant to make a political statement [...]

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The middle finger of Milan by Maurizio Cattelan – What you should know

Sculptures 3 min read

“Officially, its name is L.O.V.E. – so it stands for love – but everyone can read between the lines and take away the message they see for themselves.” – Maurizio Cattelan If you stroll into Milan’s Piazza degli Affari, you are bound to feast your eyes on a shocking sight: A 4 to 5 meters [...]

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Philippe Parreno’s helium-filled balloons create striking installations

Installations 2 min read

Philippe Parreno likes to work across different mediums. As a result, throughout his career that has spanned decades, he has been able to blur the lines between film, photography, documentaries, and various other types of media. He has built up interest over the years that allowed him to distort the established boundaries that exist between [...]

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This was Burning Man’s highlight: A massive, shiny orb

Sculptures 3 min read

In 2018, designers Jakob Lange and Bjarke Ingels embarked on a crowdfunding venture for their ORB, which was a giant reflective sphere that was to be erected at Burning Man. The ORB was an inflatable piece of art that was designed to represent the earth’s surface to scale. With its diameter of approximately 30 meters [...]

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s rainbow explodes over New York

Performances 2 min read

The Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang was a minute-long show of color and light and it was held at the East River, just over the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The event was held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to commemorate MOMA’s temporary move to Queens. The Transient Rainbow was displayed for [...]

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s giant ghost sculpture in Kassel, Germany

Sculptures 3 min read

The Importance of Telepathy is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2012 sculpture for documenta 12 which he worked on in collaboration with his fellow colleague Chai Siris. The public art exhibit was on display in the Orangerie garden in Kassel during the documenta, an art event that takes place every five years. Sitting idly in the lush garden [...]

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Liquid Shard by Poetic Kinetics – A mesmerizing glitter artwork in downtown LA

Installations 3 min read

If you keep a tab on what’s happening in the public display arts, the odds are that you came across the Liquid Shard. It was a public art installation on display in Pershing Square in LA between July 28 and August 11, 2016. Thanks to its odd size, unique design, and pure ingenuity of the [...]

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Strijdom van der Merwe – Our top 10

Installations 4 min read

“Land art encompasses everything – wind, birds, smell, touch. And my work doesn’t exist until I find it” – Van der Merwe Strijdom van der Merwe is a South African land artist. Growing up as a young boy on a farm just outside of Johannesburg, Strijdom was always taken by the beauty of nature and [...]

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Yinka Shonibare’s The End of Empire

Installations, Textile art 3 min read

Leading UK contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare is an Honored Member of the Order of the British Empire, which is why the moniker MBE has become integral to his title. As one of the most revered and well-recognized contemporary artists in the world today, the name Yinka is synonymous with historical allusions. What is Shonibare known [...]

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SEFT-1 by Ivan Puig & his brother – What is this futuristic car about?

Performances, Sculptures 3 min read

Artists and brothers Ivan Puig and Andres Padilla Domene were the masterminds responsible for SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe project. SEFT-1 or Sonda de Exploración Ferroviaria Tripulada was an interactive, interdisciplinary art project that explored disused railway lines and their historical importance and social implications. As a road and rail vehicle, the creation by Mexican [...]

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LikeArchitects: Please step on this artwork

Architecture, Installations 2 min read

LIKEarchitects, a Porto-based architecture studio constructed the temporary exhibition at Colombo Shopping Mall in Lisbon, Portugal that would hold Jen Lewin’s highly interactive luminous installation titled ‘The Pool’. About LIKEarchitects As it turns out, this was not LIKEarchitects first innovative project. Over the years, the Porto-based studio has consolidated a reputation for producing experimental, innovative [...]

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Shirin Abedinirad & Her 7 best mirror installations

Installations 9 min read

Who is Shirin Abedinirad? Around the world, artists have experimented with optical illusions. Amongst them is Iranian artist Shirin Abedinirad. Born in 1986 in Tabriz, Iran, she started with a passion for painting, partially inspired by her parents. Both of them highly encouraged her to pursue art as part of her life. Her art studies [...]

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Andreas Angelidakis’ Polemos – This tank is not a real tank

Sculptures 3 min read

Andreas Angelidakis is an architect known for creating giant foam sculptures, digital realms, and intriguing objects that touch on memory, society, consumerism, and other massive topics. His works give the audience something to think about and play with, all at once. It conjures the audience to ask the question, “Where are we and how did [...]

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