Erwin Wurm at the Albertina Brilliant Things to Do This September

Erwin Wurm: A 70th-Birthday Retrospective at Albertina Modern, Vienna: September 13, 2024 – March 9, 2025

In Vienna from mid-September, Albertina Modern will present the first major retrospective of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm in honour of his 70th birthday. For decades, Wurm has explored and stretched the concept of “the sculptural”, using sculpture, drawing and instructions, as well as videos and photographs, to investigate “the paradoxes and absurdities” of modern life. In his hands, a house rendered in ultra-skinny proportions symbolises the “narrowness of bourgeois thinking and action”, while a chubby car mocks contemporary consumerism with gaudy humour. The Albertina exhibition will bring together renowned works from all stages of Erwin Wurm’s career, spanning his early wood and dust sculptures, through his famous participatory One Minute Sculptures and brand new works, displayed here for the first time.