Five Most Famous Installations
GaiaMotherTree by Ernesto Neto
Brazilian conceptual artist Ernesto Neto created this masterpiece in collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler—Neto. This giant, 65-foot tree-like crochet structure inside Zurich’s Central Station, is a walk-in textile sculpture through a myriad of brightly coloured, hand-knotted cotton strips.
Troll Hunt by Thomas Dambo
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, artist Thomas Dambo is famous for crafting beautiful and fun projects out of trash or recycled materials, which are sourced from the city’s dumpsters. Through this, Danbo hopes to inspire people to think of trash as a resource.
Skyscraper by StudioKCA
Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm StudioKCA’s response to the estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic trash currently in the ocean, is the Skyscraper (the Bruges Whale). This 38-foot-tall whale is fabricated from plastic waste fished from the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama
In Yayoi Kusama’s latest version of the iconic series commissioned first in 1966, 1,500 stainless steel, mirrored spheres are scattered across the floor of an abandoned US military base in Fort Tilden.
Forest of Numbers by Emmanuelle Moureaux
The installation uses more than 60,000 pieces of suspended numeral figures from 0 to 9 aligned in three dimensional grids. A path was created through the installation, inviting visitors to wonder inside the colourful forest.