FRAGMENTATION
MUSEUM
Contemporary Art and Life, Fragmented.
All aspects of human life are increasingly exposed to the pervasive phenomenon of fragmentation. Contemporary art has become a reflection of this fractured experience of reality.
The Museum of Fragmentation addresses this essential condition of our time. Conceived itself as a fragmented structure — and as an artwork in its own right — the museum explores the ways in which contemporary artistic practices mirror, question, and transform this condition.
Its primary medium is cOtemporary Art TV — disseminated through YouTube subscription and global internet networks.
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Art in the Dark – Shiga Museum of Art
At the Shiga Museum of Art in Japan, this exhibition is experienced in complete darkness, with only a torch to…
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Siew Guang Hong – the body improper
In the body improper, Siew Guang Hong explores the body as a site of instability, transformation, and projection. Through 19…
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Michelangelo Pistoletto – Three Mirrors
Created in collaboration with CIRCA, Three Mirrors brings Michelangelo Pistoletto’s mirror-based practice into the public realm through a moving image…
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Ulay – Moving a Masterpiece
In 1976, Ulay staged a radical performance by removing a painting from Berlin’s National Gallery and relocating it to the…
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Richard Wilson, 20:50 – Beauty and Contamination
In 20:50, Richard Wilson fills a gallery with recycled engine oil, transforming toxic material into a surface of eerie stillness…
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Mona Hatoum, Roadworks – 1985
In Roadworks, Mona Hatoum walks barefoot through Brixton with heavy boots tied to her ankles, turning movement into a visible…
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Tony Lewis, Abstract Slavery
In Abstract Slavery, Tony Lewis uses drawing and language to approach the history of the Atlantic slave trade through layered…
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Günther Uecker, Sandmühle
Displayed in The Vulnerability of the World at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Sandmühle reflects Günther Uecker’s enduring interest in…
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Oddur Roth & Davíð Þór Jónsson – Ursula Weekender
A site-specific performance combining sound, movement, and visual art, created in memory of Björn Roth. Recorded during Ursula Weekender in…
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Michel François – Walk through a line of neon lights
In Walk through a line of neon lights, Michel François transforms broken neon into a fragile path of light, tension,…
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Kat Howard – In place of no, my mouth leaks honey
At Carvalho in New York, Kat Howard’s In place of no, my mouth leaks honey presents large-scale sculptures made from…
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Natural Collapse
Natural Collapse explores collapse not as exception, but as part of a continuous bodily and spatial process. Through performance and…
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Open Reel Ensemble – Magnetic Folklore
Formed in Japan in 2009, Open Reel Ensemble creates music with Jigakkyu, a self-invented instrument that combines bamboo bows with…
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Giuseppe Penone – The Reflection of Bronze
At Gagosian in New York, The Reflection of Bronze presents Giuseppe Penone’s continued exploration of trees, growth, and material transformation.…
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Günter Brus – The Living Wound
In 1965, Günter Brus turned the streets of Vienna into a site of psychological confrontation, painting his body white and…
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Lee Yi-Fan – Melancholic Flatness, Venice Biennale 2026
Presented at the Taiwan Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale, Lee Yi-Fan’s Melancholic Flatness explores digital interfaces, control, and contemporary…
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Werner Herzog – Hearsay of the Soul
Created for the Whitney Museum in 2012, Hearsay of the Soul marked Werner Herzog’s first video installation and reflected his…
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Discrete Ensemble – Hamilton Mausoleum
Discrete Ensemble is a sound installation by Sam Barker and Kay Sievers for eight automated string instruments. Presented at Hamilton…
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Nam June Paik – Robot K-456 and the Art of Technology
Nam June Paik transformed technology into artistic language, treating televisions, signals, and electronic noise as materials for thought. Through works…
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Henry Darger – A Secret World
For more than forty years, Henry Darger created an immense imaginary universe in complete isolation, producing thousands of pages and…
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Danh Võ – Endlessly Intriguing Sculptures
Danh Võ’s sculptures unfold through fragments, symbols, and unexpected material relationships, creating works that feel both intimate and historically charged.…
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Fountain of Youth – Festival Tweetakt, Utrecht
Presented at Festival Tweetakt in Utrecht, Fountain of Youth invites visitors into a playful encounter with renewal, ritual, and participation.…
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Elliot Bergman – Musical Ladders
For Elliot Bergman’s exhibition musical ladders, bells, and a newly completed organ pipe marimba come together in a sculptural performance…
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Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View – 1991
In Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, Cornelia Parker suspends the fragments of a blown-up garden shed in mid-air, freezing…
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Hugh Hayden – San Giacomo Chapel
For the Venice Biennale, Hugh Hayden unveils a permanent commission on San Giacomo that transforms the familiar form of a…
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Hospital of Emotions – Immersive Art in an Abandoned Hospital
Set inside a former hospital in Los Angeles, Hospital of Emotions transforms more than 80 rooms across four floors into…
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Florentina Holzinger – The Austrian Pavilion
At the Venice Biennale, Florentina Holzinger transforms the Austrian Pavilion into a living organism shaped by water, machines, and extreme…
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Kari Cholnoky, Leech
In Leech, Kari Cholnoky explores the unstable relationship between people and objects through painting and sculptural form. Dense, layered surfaces…
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Richard Serra – Equals
A brief fragment on Richard Serra’s Equals, questioning whether art needs to be beautiful to be powerful. The work invites…
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Hidden Art
A brief fragment on freeports, ultra-secure warehouses where valuable artworks can remain hidden from public view while functioning as private…
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Vivian Maier – Hidden Streets
A brief fragment on Vivian Maier, the once-unknown photographer whose vast archive captured everyday urban life with rare intimacy, turning…
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The Blind Art Collector
A sharp fragment on art, status, and perception in today’s culture, where collecting becomes a symbol of its own.
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Martin Puryear – Nexus
A brief fragment on Martin Puryear’s Nexus, where minimal forms reveal human traces of memory, craft, architecture, and metaphor.
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Bill Douglas – My Way Home
A short fragment on My Way Home (1978), Bill Douglas’s minimalist and deeply poetic portrait of youth, memory, and survival.…
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Sitting in a Room with Alvin Lucier
A short fragment inspired by Alvin Lucier’s groundbreaking experiments with sound, space, and perception. Through resonance and repetition, his work…
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Ruth Asawa – An Artist Who Worked Every Minute
This documentary reflects on Ruth Asawa’s radical and deeply personal artistic practice, tracing how everyday life, family, and material experimentation…
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Andy Warhol & Edie Sedgwick – Pop Art on Television
In this 1965 appearance on The Merv Griffin Show, Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick helped bring Pop Art into the…
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New Museum Expansion – A New Journey Through Contemporary Art
New York’s New Museum has unveiled its expansion, opening up a new chapter for one of the city’s most experimental…
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Sophie Calle – Something Missing? at Louisiana
Sophie Calle’s Something Missing? at Louisiana highlights her distinctive blend of autobiography, photography, and text, tracing a practice built on…
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Carlos Amorales – Black Cloud
Black Cloud, by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales, fills the space with thousands of black paper butterflies spreading across walls and…
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -Clinamen
Clinamen, by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, is one of the most mesmerizing and soothing installations currently on view in Paris. Set beneath…
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Ron Mueck – Encounter
Ron Mueck: Encounter brings together the artist’s striking hyperreal sculptures, inviting viewers into an intense experience of scale, presence, and…
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Mladen Stilinović, Artist at Work – 1978
In Artist at Work, Mladen Stilinović turns rest into a conceptual gesture, challenging conventional ideas of labour, effort, and artistic…
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Vietnam – Art in the Global Stream, Venice Biennale 2026
At the 61st Venice Biennale, Vietnam makes its debut with Art in the Global Stream, a project by Lê Hữu…
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Walid Raad, Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you (XVI, XIX)
Presented in Festival of (In)gratitude at Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Walid Raad’s Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see…
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Vojin Bakić – Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija
Built in 1981 by sculptor Vojin Bakić, this striking monument once reflected the surrounding landscape through its polished stainless steel…
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Ned Kahn & Moshe Safdie, Rain Oculus – Singapore
The Rain Oculus is a monumental whirlpool installation at Marina Bay Sands that merges art, architecture, and engineering into a…
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Alfredo Jaar, One Million German Passports – 2023
In One Million German Passports, Alfredo Jaar transforms the passport into a stark symbol of belonging, exclusion, and political contradiction.…
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Andy Warhol – The Making of a Portrait
In a 1976 interview with Thames TV, Andy Warhol casually explained the now-iconic process behind his commissioned portraits, from photography…
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Wolfgang Beltracchi – Lost and Forgotten Artworks That Never Existed
Wolfgang Beltracchi became infamous for creating paintings that looked as though they belonged to art history, even though they had…
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VALIE EXPORT, From the Portfolio of Doggedness – 1968
In From the Portfolio of Doggedness, VALIE EXPORT turned the streets of Vienna into a site of confrontation, leading Peter…
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Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is Over All – 1997
Pipilotti Rist’s Ever Is Over All is a two-channel video installation that turns destruction into something strangely playful, poetic, and…
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Abraham Poincheval – Stone, Presence, and Endurance
In 2017, Abraham Poincheval sealed himself inside a hollow limestone rock at the Palais de Tokyo, turning his own body…
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Third Person (Open-World Fantasy) – Collecting Shells, Stockholm
Presented in the solo exhibition Collecting Shells at Saskia Neuman Gallery in Stockholm, Third Person (Open-World Fantasy) evokes a dreamlike…
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Thierry Mandon – Art and Risk
Thierry Mandon transforms intimate daily rituals into suspended acts of exposure, where reading, resting, and dining become performances shaped by…
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John Wood & Paul Harrison, one more kilometre – Fundação de Serralves, Porto
Presented as part of The Act of the Hosts at Fundação de Serralves in Porto, one more kilometre continues John…
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Tehching Hsieh – One Year Performances
Tehching Hsieh pushed performance art to its limits through durational works that turned time, endurance, and existence into the material…
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Tomáš Moravec, Pallet – 2008
Tomáš Moravec’s Pallet transforms a standard europallet into a strange vehicle that rides along tram tracks in Bratislava, turning public…
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Peter Campus, Three Transitions – 1973
Peter Campus’s Three Transitions is a landmark work of early video art that explores identity as something unstable, constructed, and…
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Gavin Turk, Dump
Gavin Turk’s Dump turns an ordinary black rubbish bag into a meticulously crafted bronze sculpture, challenging perception and value through…
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James Turrell, Roden Crater
James Turrell’s Roden Crater transforms a volcanic crater into a vast perceptual artwork shaped by light, sky, and space. Blurring…
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John Gerrard, Western Flag
John Gerrard’s Western Flag transforms the symbol of a flag into a warning, giving visible form to the invisible threat…
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Carol Bove – Materiality and Space
Carol Bove’s sculptures explore the tension between form, material, and space, combining industrial surfaces with a strong sense of physical…
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Cady Noland – The Power of Refusal
Cady Noland turned withdrawal into a form of artistic power, using refusal, disavowal, and absence to challenge the structures of…
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Kate MccGwire – Feather Sculptures
Kate MccGwire creates feather sculptures that twist, coil, and flow like living forms suspended in motion. Using natural materials with…
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Keith Haring – Subway Drawings
Keith Haring turned New York subway stations into a public canvas, creating rapid chalk drawings that brought his visual language…
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David Lynch, The Art Life
David Lynch’s The Art Life offers an intimate look into the artist’s inner world, tracing the connection between memory, painting,…
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Fabio Viale – Turning Stone into the Impossible
Fabio Viale transforms solid marble into sculptures that appear impossibly light, soft, and fragile. Through extraordinary craftsmanship, he challenges the…
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Banksy – Love Is in the Bin
Banksy’s Love Is in the Bin became one of the most iconic moments in contemporary art when a hidden shredder…
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Tavares Strachan – The Day Tomorrow Began
Tavares Strachan (@tavaresstrachan) is an artist whose work explores hidden histories, cultural memory, and the forces that shape who is…
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Juan Romero – Nightmare Collages
Juan Romero creates nightmare collages that transform glossy magazine and film imagery into fractured analog glitches. Blending horror, distortion, and…
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10 Terrifying Artists From Around the World
This video presents ten artists from around the world whose works explore fear, discomfort, and the uncanny through powerful visual…
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Joseph Beuys, I Like America and America Likes Me – 1974
Joseph Beuys’s I Like America and America Likes Me documents the artist’s 1974 performance in New York, where he spent…
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Louise Bourgeois – Memory at the Table
In this clip, Louise Bourgeois tells an anecdote about her father’s dinner time ‘entertainment’. Louis (who she said, she was…
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Sven Sachsalber – Finding a Needle in a Haystack
In this durational performance, Sven Sachsalber took the well-worn expression “finding a needle in a haystack” at face value. Over…
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Marina Abramović & Ulay, The Great Wall Walk
”Let’s walk towards each other and let’s say goodbye.” Legendary performance artists and former couple Marina Abramović and Ulay (1943-2020)…
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Jon Rafman – Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Jon Rafman’s Report a Concern explores surveillance, perception, and digital life through found imagery and installation. The work reflects on…
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Jon Rafman, Nine Eyes of Google Street View
By isolating these “found” images and presenting them as photographs, Jon Rafman (@jonrafman) reframes an impersonal surveillance/archive tool into human-centered…
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Dib Bangkok – Contemporary Art Museum
Dib Bangkok (@dibbangkok) is now open! Southeast Asia’s newest art museum is filled with Thai and international contemporary greats. From…
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Shoji Yamasaki – Littered Mvmnts
Shoji Yamasaki is a performance artist known for his ongoing series Littered Mvmnts. By closely observing trash caught in the…
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Ron Mueck – Hyperreal Sculpture
Ron Mueck is an Australian-born sculptor renowned for hyperreal figurative works that shift between monumental scale and intimate miniaturization. Using…
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Erwin Wurm, One Minute Sculptures
Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures redefines sculpture by making the human body, everyday objects, and time the primary materials of…
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Lena Becerra, Weaving Black Nests Under the Skin – Berlin, Germany
Lena Becerra’s Weaving Black Nests Under the Skin imagines a fragile world of hybrid forms suspended between decay and renewal.…
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Giuseppe Penone, It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point
Giuseppe Penone created It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point by placing a cast of his own hand…
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Leandro Erlich – Illusion and Perception
Leandro Erlich (@leandroerlichofficial) is an Argentine conceptual artist renowned for destabilizing reality through perceptual illusion, transforming the familiar into sites…
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Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels – Utah, USA
Today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere – one of only two days each year when the sun…
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The C100 List 2025 – Performance Art
The C100 List 2025 is live! [link in bio], presenting 100 contemporary artworks made in 2025.
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Lachlan Turczan – Water, Light, and Sound
American artist @lachlanturczan creates short-lived art installations using water, light and sound to capture the ephemeral circles of nature.
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John Wood & Paul Harrison – Tragedy, Comedy, and Irony
British artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working together since 1993, creating video works that sit somewhere between…
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Louise Bourgeois – Feeling Before Understanding
Louise Bourgeois on why a work must be felt before it is understood.
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Lauren McCarthy, Follower – 2016
‘Follower’ [2016] by Lauren McCarthy @laurenleemack. In 2016, artist Lauren McCarthy launched an app-based service that allows a user to…
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Tracey Emin, A Second Life – Tate Modern, London
Step into the tender world of Tracey Emin in her landmark exhibition at Tate Modern. Through painting, video, textiles, neons,…
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Zimoun – Sound Installations
Swiss artist Zimoun creates immersive site-specific sound installations, built mainly from recycled materials drawn from everyday life and industry.
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Maurizio Cattelan, Sussurro – Casa de Serralves, Portugal
Being an artist is not a job, it’s a malfunction. Art is a way to survive, not a way to…
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Elmgreen & Dragset, 2025 – Paris, France
‘October 2025’ [2025] by Elmgreen & Dragset @elmgreenanddragsetstudio In this sculptural installation, a hyper-real gallery assistant sits slumped at her…
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Michael Heizer, City – Nevada, USA
Situated in rural Nevada, ‘City’ is a monumental artwork by Michael Heizer. Deliberately inaccessible, only a handful of visitors are…
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Anish Kapoor, BUTCHERED – North Sea
Anish Kapoor’s ‘BUTCHERED’ brings together art and activism in an unprecedented North Sea intervention.
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Yayoi Kusama – Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Born in Japan in 1929, she transformed the…
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Cyprien Gaillard, Recovery of Discovery
‘Recovery of Discovery’ is a pyramid-shaped installation by French artist Cyprien Gaillard. Visitors were encouraged to climb the steps of…
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Sizhu Li, Viborg Kunsthal – Viborg, Denmark 2024
Artist Sizhu Li (@sizhuli) creates kinetic, immersive installations that use industrial materials, especially aluminum, to evoke poetic emotional states through…
The exhibition
“THE ARTWORK AS A SUSTAINABLE FRAGMENT OF THE PRESENT”
Musée de la Fragmentation