Mikroinstallations (in the original Mikroinstalacje) are half chairs, half deckchairs that revive forgotten parts of the city. Sitting on the stairs has never been too comfortable, and with the practical seats of Mikroinstallation, this is changing. Polish designers Magdalena Szwajcowska and Michał Majewski from No Studio signed up for the temporary installations by the river in the Polish city of Wrocław. Are you also missing something similar on the riverfront?
Barbies are no longer just a toy. As the core of many debates about the manipulation of modern images of female ideals of beauty, this time they found their way into modern art. The Belgian artist Annette Thas created an incredible giant sculpture of a wave consisting of more than 3,000 barbies.
Basketball courts, indoor and outdoor, are more or less all the same. Parquet or concrete, marked with lines and any sponsors' markings or visiting teams. A Playground in Italy is a different kind of basketball court. It is an art installation, but it follows all the rules of the game.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York is richer for the 18-karat gold toilet bowl. Although you probably thought it was an exhibition exhibit at first, the golden toilet named America, located on the fifth floor of this famous museum of modern art, is not only functional, but can be used by any visitor. If, of course, he can wait in line.
"Today we live with the awareness that an art object can be anything and an artist can be anyone," said academic sculptor Marjan Drev. Like him, we also disagree with this, although today there are no more boundaries, because if art can be a snow shovel and a urinal, art can be anything! The latest such example is a scene from the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, where teenagers secretly placed glasses on the floor, and visitors mistook them for an art installation and reacted as expected. No, they didn't get angry, but rather tried to immerse themselves in this "artistic" work, and some of them even enthusiastically photographed the "work".
Rune Guneriussen is an installation artist. He places everyday objects in remote Norwegian landscapes and thus conjures up a real fairy tale in which even 'hard' objects come to life.
A group of architecture students at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts installed three extra-large wooden Ruup megaphones in a small clearing in the middle of a forest in Võru County, Estonia. Fusing modern architecture with wilderness, the acoustic installation is a place of meditation, relaxation and performance, amplifying the sounds of nature such as birdsong and rustling leaves.
Christo Guelov, a Bulgarian visual and conceptual artist who lives in Madrid, is famous for his rather unusual installations, at least at first glance. His last "intervention" took place in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, where he painted the Älvsborg bridge in very special shades. Children will recognize them in no time.
Israeli artist Sigalit Landau started an interesting project in 2014. He submerged a black woman's dress in the Dead Sea, and after two years in salty water - the Dead Sea, which lies between Israel and Jordan, is the second saltiest lake in the world after Africa's Lake Asal - he recently pulled it to the surface. The result? A magical dress, as if pulled from a fairy tale, but not from water.
On Italy's Lake Iseo, everything is ready to bring to life the project created by the Bulgarian artist Christo and baptized as the Floating Pier. It is a 4.5 kilometer long installation that connects the town of Sulzano and the island of Monte Isola. It will be open to the public from June 18 to July 3, 2016.
Have you ever wanted to see the moon and stars here, among us, on Earth? Now is your chance. Moonlith is a new monument in Ljubljana that reflects the sky. On its surface, the moon's moon and constellations of stars are displayed, while at the same time the Moonlith responds to the people around it with subtle sounds.
The dream of floating effortlessly high in the sky has finally become a sweet reality. Namely, the artist Tomás Saraceno created the installation "In Orbit", which makes it possible to walk in the air as high as 25 meters.