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Born in 1954, Austria.
"As an artist Erwin Wurm devotes himself to the encyclopaedic enlargement of the concept of sculpture. He has been evolving "one-minute sculptures" since 1988 where he deals with the connection between sculpture and everyday life, the border between sculpture and action, time and duration, as well as the reproduction of sculpture and its interaction with the public.

His drawings that relate to this central corpus of work are characterized by their wit, irony, grotesque humor and subtle tensions, and represent succinctly drawn instructions for changing protagonists to utilize a number of different utensils in the creation of temporary sculpture. .."
-- quote from "Erwin Wurm- one minute sculpture: index of works"

Selected Group Exhibitions

1997 Das neue Gesicht, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany ?vres du fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain de , de Franche-Comte, Musee d'art et d'histoire, Belfort, France Constantin's dream, FRAC Aopes Cotes d'Azur, Villa de Noailles, Hyeres, France Bernard Frize, Stephen Westfall, Erwin Wurm, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland 1 minute scenario, Printemps de Cahors, Toulouse, France (curator Jerome Sans) Sous le mantea u, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris ( curator Caroline Smulders) Every Moment, Everwhere: Biefer & Zgraggen, Lea & Pekka, Kantonen, Stephen Willats, Erwin Wurm Art Museum, Pori, Finland do it, Kunstverein Kreis Guterloh, Germany Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California Cranbrook Art Museum, Blommfield Hills, Michigan Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Columbia (curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist) Kunst…Arbeit, Die Sammlung der Sudwest Landesbank, Stuttgart (curator Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen ) art club berlin, Videoforum, art forum berlin, Germany

1998 C'est la vie: Stefan Banz, Joel Bartolomeo, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann, Erwin Wurm Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels Imago '98, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Biennale of Montreal (C'est la vie) Canada (curator Hilde Teerlinck). The Austrian Vision (Positions of contemporary art); Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Poussiere (dust memories)： Jonh Armleder, Patrik Corillon, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Robert Filliou, Koo Jeong A, Claudio Parmiggiani, Michael Ross, Joe Scanlan, Lawrence Weiner, Erwin Wurm; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France. Das Jahrhundert der Kunstlerischen Freiheit. 100 Jahre Wiener Secession, Secession, Vienna; City Art Museum, Helsinki (curator Robert Fleck) Sculpture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Self-Portraits, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands Lifestyle, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria Dissin 'The Real：Andreas Gursky, Fabrice Hybert, Ann Lislegaard, Walter Niedermayer, Martin Walde, Mark Wallinger, Lois Weinberger, Erwin Wurm Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna do it, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas Visual Arts Center, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho The Nickle Arts Museum, The University of Calgary, Canada Surray art Gallery, Canada Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada Freedom Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist) Super freaks - Post Pop & The new Generation, Part II：Odyssey, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York The Collection, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France Zomer van der Fotografie, Museum voor Fotorgrafie, Hessenhuis, Antwerpen, Belhium Dressed UP：Fashion and Costume in Art from the Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Videoforum, Art 29, Basel, Switzerland Otto-Mauer-Preistrager, Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna Photo, Galeria OMR, Mexico City

1999 Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Great Britian Le Printemps de Cahors：Marc Adams, Doug Aitken,Bernd & Anna Blume, Claude Closky, Fischi - Weiss, Raimund Hains, Roman Signer, Erwin Wurm Cahors, France Attention：John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, Bernd & Anna Blume, Robert Cumming, Ger van Elk, Roman Signer, William Wegman, Erwin Wurm Galerie Art：Concept, Paris. Let's get lost：Fionna Banner, Pierre Bismuth, Liam Gillick, Jonathan Monk, Lars Nilsson, Henrik Plenge Jakobson, Erwin Wurm Central Saint Martins College, London Level Zero Cinema：Stefan Banz, Joel Bartolomeo, Lucy Gunning, Josep Maria Martin, Annika Strom, Erwin Wurm W 139, Amsterdam (curator Hilde Teerlink)

2000 Lyon Biennial-Sharing Exoticisms, Lyon, France