Future exhibition

ERWIN WURM – Life Beat soft melt

07.09.2025 – 23.11.2025

Erwin Wurm distinguishes himself as an artist with his particularly fine sense of humor and irony. His drafts and their realizations now appear innumerable when it comes to apparently “banal”, everyday” motifs in his art. Starting with sculptures made of dust and found materials, he very quickly developed the “One-Minute Sculptures”, which caused a sensation and illustrated his criticism of society and the art world in an ironic twist. Then there are the “sausages”, which he humorously and self-critically likes to describe as self-portraits. His shifts in scale and proportions, his “narrow house”, the oversized “Gherkins” or his “flat cars” have also become famous.

For the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, Erwin Wurm is planning a wall work for the first time, based on his paintings based on words, as well as a compilation of various “one-minute sculptures” and his multifaceted drawings and watercolors.

The exhibition is supported by the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation.

Erwin Wurm: One-Minute-Scuplture © Erwin Wurm