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Pierre Ardouvin

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Pierre Ardouvin, ‘Les Quatre Saisons’ (2010)

Pierre Ardouvin is participating in WHAT’S THE POINT OF GIVING YOU ANY MORE ARTWORKS?

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Hannah Whitaker

Below images are photographs by Hannah Whitaker. Via

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Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’

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Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’ (2002)

An intervention that caused people to have to find a different way into the room.


Johannes Vogl

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Johannes Vogl, Ohne Titel (Marmeladenbrotstreichmaschine) / Untitled (Machine to produce jam breads) (2007)

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Driessens & Verstappen

During the etching process five keys are submerged in an etching solution. From time to time one of the objects is removed from the solution, until finally a small unrecognisable shape was left over.

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During the galvanisation process, metal atoms from a copper sulphate solution are deposited onto the objects by means of electrolysis. Just like during the etching process, four keys have been subject to the chemical process for an increasing period of time.

Driessens & Verstappen, ‘Morphoteque #13′ (2003)


Ferdinand Cheval’s ideal castle

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Ferdinand ‘Postman’ Cheval’s ‘ideal castle’.

Cheval began the building in April 1879. He claimed that he had tripped on a stone and was inspired by its shape. He returned to the same spot the next day and started collecting stones.

For the next 33 years, during his daily mail route, Cheval carried stones from his delivery rounds and at home used them to build his Palais idéal, the Ideal Palace. First he carried the stones in his pockets, then a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.

Cheval spent the first two decades building the outer walls. The Palace is a mix of different styles with inspirations from the Bible to Hindu mythology. Cheval bound the stones together with lime, mortar and cement.

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Billy(TM) Apple

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This is a picture of the apple ’species’ that Billy Apple is growing in New Zealand. A spotless, perfectly red apple that’s supposed to hit a grocery store near you sometime in the coming years…


Hotel Vue des Alpes

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‘Hotel Vue des Alpes’ is a fictional, hotel, accessable only through the internet. Visitors can log in to the website, book a room and walk around to enjoy the scenery. You can stay there for a few days (short stay only)… The view from the rooms is breathtaking!

It is a project by Monica Studer and Christoph van den Berg

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Willem Claassen

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Willem Claassen, ‘Zwarte piste’ (2009)

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Martin Creed

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Martin Creed, ‘Work no. 785 (Japanese Maple, Persian Ironwood, Hornbeam, Apple and Oak)’ (2007)


Davide Balula

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Davide Balula, ‘Heartbeat Exciter (Stimulateur cardiaque)’ (2006)

Recordings of human heartbeats at different speeds sending magnetic charges into the plants.


Roman Ondák

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Roman Ondák, ‘Czech Pavilion in the Giardini’, Venice Biennial (2009)

The garden landscape surrounding the Czech pavillion is continued inside.

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John Baldessari

It’s him again.

John Baldessari, ‘Teaching a plant the alphabet (excerpt)’ (1972)

Marcus Coates

Tateshots: Marcus Coates (2009) (through vvork)


Corey McCorkle

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‘YaYoi’ (2005) by Corey McCorkle.


Karl Fritsch

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Karl Fritsch, ‘Ring’, white gold 750 oxidised, gold 750

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Clouds

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Mark Dion

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Mark Dion, ‘Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit’ (2008).

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Excerpt from ‘Metropolis’, Fritz Lang (1927)