Over the course of the 20th century sculpture has amplified into site-specific installations. Site-specific installations are “in” because they offer alternatives to the rampant mediatization of everyday life and heighten our awareness of the “here and now”.More ...
Beginning in the 1960s, art movements like Pop Art, Fluxus and Land Art expanded the very notion of the artwork into the ambient environment and landscape, blurring the borders between the work and the viewer.More ...
Site-specific murals figure less prominently now than back in the 1980s. Installation-oriented painters are increasingly working in three dimensions, though the main impetus for site-invasive explorations now comes from the field of drawing.More ...
Contemporary site-specific sculpture runs the gamut from conceptual approaches to all-over installations. The confrontation with geographic and historical settings is an important strand of contemporary art.More ...
The paradigm change from self-enclosed material works to “situation art” has given rise to a host of site-specific installations that combine objects with actions in countless different ways.More ...
