Erwin Wurm, one of the most internationally successful Austrian artists, plays with the boundaries between sculpture, action, and performance, thereby significantly expanding the field of sculpture. For this Vienna-based artist, anything can become a sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought. His body of work—ranging from early "dust sculptures" and "One Minute Sculptures" to the space-filling "Fat Cars" or "Fat Houses"—is vast; beneath its ostensibly whimsical and humorous surface lie both sharp social critique and philosophical depth.

The Kunstmuseum Bonn examines this exuberantly expansive body of work, focusing on how the artist engages with concepts of individual and collective identity in our society. The carefully curated selection—spanning from the early 1990s to 2009, with an emphasis on works from the final three years—reveals an artistic cosmos that, at its core, perceives human existence as an absurd game balanced between the ridiculous and the tragic.