Savage, ‘Stolen white goods’ (2005)
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Kathrin Schlegel
Kathrin Schlegel, ‘Bitte nicht wieder klauen’ (‘Please don’t steal again’) (2011)
Work for an existing pedestal whose sculpture had been stolen. This original was a figurative bronze sculpture by Jan Spiering that showed two figures playing with a ball. The work is based on the “absent presence” of the ball as a relic of Spiering’s work, which is realized on the abandoned pedestal in the form of a classic magic trick: the “floating ball under a cloth”.
Maria Anwander
‘My Most Favourite Art’ (2004 – 2009)
My Most Favourite Art’ is an installation made of exhibition plates, which Maria Anwander has stolen and collected from different galeries and museums since 2004. Only criterion for the theft of a plate is her fascination for the work which belongs to it.
‘Everyones’ Best Friends’ (2009) by Maria Anwander.
Cutouts of banknote-portraits from eight different currencies. (via)
Tom Friedman – ‘Hot balls’
Tom Friedman, ‘Hot balls’ (1992)
A collection of differently sized and coloured balls stolen by the artist from various stores over a period of six months.
Bas Schevers
Bas Schevers, ‘Kinderfiets (Children’s bicycle)’ (2001)
Bas Schevers stole a child’s bicycle from a front yard and left the owners a note, saying that he stole it for an art exhibition and that they could have it back if they came by on the night of the opening.
At the opening Bas was sitting by a table with a sandwich toaster in front of him. The owners of the bicycle could choose whether they wanted the bicycle back and take the toaster too, or if they wanted the bicycle back and have a conversation with the artist about his motivations for stealing the bike.
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