One Minute Forever, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

7 April – 9 August 2022
Curated by Maja Kolarić and Jérôme Sans
 

Wurm’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, titled One Minute Forever, is the first solo show of this major Austrian artist in Serbia and his first large-scale exhibition in the Balkans. Occupying all five floors of the Museum, the exhibition aims to showcase the artist’s complex creative oeuvre spanning thirty years, from the nineties to the present.

Together with his One Minute Sculptures, the exhibition also features other iconic works by Wurm, such as Narrow House, Fat Car, Fat House, Abstract and Performative Sculptures, as well as all those additional media with which the artist constantly works and that constitute an indispensable part of his artistic vocabulary, such as photographs, video works, performances, drawings, and paintings, as well as his outstanding new production for the Belgrade exhibition.

Specifically, Wurm has produced a new series of his performative sculptures in clay, presenting models of the most important buildings belonging to the heritage of Yugoslav modernism in Belgrade. In this regard, rather introspective than retrospective in its conception, this exhibition attempts to present the rich and heterogeneous artistic oeuvre of Wurm as well as the diversity of the media in which he creates his works and simultaneously keeps developing and exploring.

One Minute Forever harbors a paradoxical synthesis of transience and eternity seeking to remind us of some of Wurm’s iconic One Minute and Performative Sculptures which, revived and re-performed on this occasion, only through the experience of participation generate the possibility and probability of their being remembered forever.

Erwin Wurm (*1954) is an Austrian artist based in Limberg, Austria, currently one of the most prominent artists on the global contemporary art scene. He acquired international renown with his unique approach to sculptural practice by demystifying and broadening the traditional notion of sculpture and reinventing it through performance art, video, photography, and drawing.

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