ERWIN WURM
MISCONCEIVABLE

HOTEL DANIEL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2012
MISCONCEIVABLE, 2007
Mixed media
10 x 8 x 3 m

© Courtesy Hotel Daniel

FEATURED ARTIST

ERWIN WURM

Erwin Wurm (b. 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. His oeuvre comprises sculptures, photography, video, performance, and painting. His works often involve everyday objects such as cars, houses, clothing, luxury bags, and food products, with which he ironically comments on consumerism and capitalist mass production. Wurm gained widespread popularity in the 1990s with his “One Minute Sculptures”. Museum pedestals are displayed and left devoid of any work, so that the audience can take the place of the sculpture for one minute, according to the artist’s whimsical instructions. With this ironic yet radical gesture, Wu...
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