Erwin Wurm

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TATE MODERN

Performing for the Camera

Serious performance art, portraiture, or just simply posing for the camera? What does is it mean to perform for the camera?
Hannah Wilke Yayoi Kusama Cindy Sherman Francesca Woodman Erwin Wurm Marcel Duchamp Yves Klein Samuel Fosso

Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom. Thursday 18 February 2016 to Sunday 12 June 2016

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TATE MODERN

Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures

During an exclusive out of hours viewing of Performing for the Camera featured artist Erwin Wurm invites you to make a One Minute Sculpture. Through his work Erwin Wurm questions and reflects on sculpture itself, seeking to overcome its restrictions, limiting its life time to one minute only. Using everyday domestic objects and found furniture, Erwin creates situations and instructions that allow
Erwin Wurm

Art exhibition in City of London, United Kingdom. Monday 22 February 2016 to Monday 22 February 2016

2 collections
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QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY/GALLERY OF MODERN ART (QAGOMA)

Trace: Performance and its Documents

It seems obvious when talking about performance that ‘you really have to be there’, to get the story right. While the experience of ‘being there’ adds something particular, it is still possible to experience the work at a remove, whether via a screen, photographic documentation, or even a third-hand retelling of the action.
Brown Council John Baldessari Mike Parr Song Dong Sriwhana Spong Ai Weiwei Carolee Schneemann Campbell Patterson Gosia Wlodarczak Bruce Nauman Erwin Wurm Rebecca Horn Qin Ga Zhang Huan

Art exhibition in Queensland, Australia. Saturday 22 February 2014 to Sunday 27 July 2014

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ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY - SYDNEY

Crap Head

Born in 1954, Wurm has a career spanning three decades and is internationally renowned for his humorous works, underpinned by a fierce critique of contemporary culture. Wurm’s three-dimensional works manipulate and distort the familiar, questioning our consumer society and extending the definition of sculpture through the use of everyday objects such as wood, Styrofoam, resin, paint and textile
Erwin Wurm

Art exhibition in New South Wales, Australia. Saturday 22 February 2014 to Saturday 10 May 2014

4 collections