
Installation shot of ‘Peel’, a video that Ceal Floyer made in 2003.
Thanks, Helmut!

‘1000 hours of staring’ (1992-1997), by Tom Friedman.
A blank piece of paper that the artist stared at for one thousand hours.

I recently saw Rebecca Stephany‘s work at the GfZK Leipzig, after she had won the INFORM conceptual design award.
Click to see a more or less incomplete selection of nice works from the show. Sorry about the sorry pictures..


‘Field’ is an Antony Gormley installation of 35,000 clay figures made by a family of Mexican brick-makers. Gormley asked that the figures be easy to hold in one’s hands and that the head and body be in proportion to one another.

“Removal of the Wooden Floor, Grafisches Kabinett, Secession” (2010) by Lara Almarcegui.
Lara Almarcegui removed and then reconstructed the floor of an exhibition space.

Maria Eichhorn‘s exhibition ‘Das Geld der Kunsthalle Bern / Money at the Kunsthalle Bern’ (2000) resulted from her research into funding of the exhibition and her decision to devote the entire budget for her show to the renovation of the building. The entire museum was on show during this renovation and visitors could watch the process from up close, even in rooms that were normally hidden from view.

‘Pavillion’ (2008) by Job Koelewijn
A room the size of a telephone booth, on all sides equipped with rolling shutters that close and, eventually, open once a person stands inside. These pictures were taken at museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL).

Wait Until II (2006) by Kris Vleeschouwer
A glass is mounted on a small shelf. Under the shelf a display with 3 numbers is always moving. When, by chance, the display shows 3 identical numbers, a piston pushes the glass a little bit to the edge until finaly it falls. After this “accident” the process starts all over again with a new glass.