Erwin Wurm’s extensive career is marked by a fiercely singular sense of humour and acute social conscience. Directing our gaze towards the joyful absurd, Wurm pushes the boundaries of his medium in order to rally against the contours of an ever-constricting world. Whether through One Minute Sculptures, Flat Sculptures – nominally traditional oil on canvas – or ceramics which take surprising and often jarring forms, over a significant and remarkable career Wurm has undoubtedly expanded the purview of sculpture to meet the contemporary moment.
Born in 1954, Wurm lives in Vienna and Limberg, Austria. Wurm’s work is found in public collections across the world, including Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Albertina, Vienna; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, to name only a few. In 2023 alone, solo exhibitions of Wurm’s work have been presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; the Peter Marino Art Foundation, New York, and the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah. In 2017 Wurm represented Austria at the 57th Venice Biennale
