At first glance, “Wupperlauf” may seem atypical of Tony Cragg’s oeuvre, but it shares a characteristic ambiguity with his other sculptures. Although it represents the course of the river Wupper, displayed here, unlike traditional maps, rotated by 90 degrees, its shape is more reminiscent of a tree with a thick trunk and tapering branches, or…

A very tall bronze rises – as if dropped from the sky – in front of the extension of the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal. It is a work by Tony Cragg, the Wuppertaler-by-choice and master of the never-before-seen and yet memory-provoking form. This drop-shaped object, too, shining like gold and perforated by 25000 round holes, which appears…

“There are many more things that don’t exist than those that do exist,” Tony Cragg once said. In keeping with this train of thought, the artist has set about filling some of this immense gap with his works. These are things that exist but have not existed before, that cannot be identified, that do not…

Tony Cragg donated this sculpture from his “industrial nature” series to the University of his adopted hometown. Despite a height of seven metres, it looks like a small plant trying to grow above the surrounding walls of the multistorey buildings on Campus Grifflenberg. At its inauguration, Tony Cragg explained his intention as follows: “Our reality…

The massive sculpture “Mean Average” by Tony Cragg, a confident artistic position despite its title, is situated on Remigiusplatz in Bonn, which is surrounded by restaurants and retailers. Its organic-looking shapes, reminiscent of rock or sand formations, make no reference to its surroundings. This is a powerful abstract form with a purely aesthetic function that…

I’m Alive is not only a very direct sign of life from the artist, who has been living in Wuppertal for over 30 years, but also a description of his lively silver sculpture. This work was Tony Cragg’s entry for a sculpture project that took place in 2007 in the valley along the Wupper River.…

For the reopening of the Von der Heydt Museum in 1990, Tony Cragg created two corresponding bronze sculptures, which are positioned on two pedestals to the right and left of the staircase leading into the building. Each sculpture consists of two different vessels merging together in a process of metamorphosis. Sculpture I is based on…

This abstract-biomorphic bronze sculpture is reminiscent of an encounter between identical forces of nature, such as two tornados or whirlpools merging together. The twisted multilayered bronze structures rise up on two legs to meet in the middle of the sculpture and unite into a single enormous mass. While the individual layers mesh into each other…

Many of the artist’s earlier works incorporate forms related to the human body. Likewise, when this abstract sculpture is viewed from different angles, it appears to depict various profiles of a human head. These forms seem to dissolve and merge into the surrounding bulges and layers. Titled Second Thoughts, the sculpture addresses how human thought…

British sculptor Tony Cragg created an exhibition center for interior and exterior sculpture on the grounds surrounding the historic Villa Waldfrieden in Wuppertal. Situated amidst nature across an area of roughly 14 hectares, this collection of works by important modern and contemporary sculptors been growing since 2008: in addition to a number of Tony Cragg’s…