Christie’s is delighted to present a unique opportunity: the chance to spend a night experience in a sculpture. Eight international artists have created habitable works for tinyBE – a global platform devoted to artistic ideas about sustainable living – and proceeds from the sale will benefit the organisation’s activities. The works will be displayed as part of tinyBE’s first project: A three month event – part exhibition, part sculpture park – which will take place between June and September 2021 in Frankfurt, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden in Germany. Successful bidders will be able to occupy their chosen sculpture for the first night of the event: Thereafter, the experience will be open to the public. Conceived as a collective Gesamtkunstwerk, the project aims to spark debate about the relationship between art, architecture, society and the environment. At once utopian and disruptive, the sculptures ask their inhabitants to reconsider the ways in which we interact with the world at large.

Sustainable, partly portable and no more than 30 square metres in size, the works span a diverse range of practices. Contemporary German artists are strongly represented: from Thomas Schütte to Christian Jankowski to Berlin-based collective MY-CO-X, who have developed raw artistic materials from fungal biotechnology. French artist Laure Prouvost, winner of the 2013 Turner Prize, has created Boob Hills Burrows: two habitable breast-shaped mounds built into the landscape. American multidisciplinary duo Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow address themes of migration and displacement in THE EMBASSY OF THE REFUGEE, while Beijing-born Canadian artist Terence Koh invites viewers to sleep beneath the stars in his habitable biotope spiral home. Turkish artist Onur Gökmen explores the intersection of past and present in FIRST, while American Fluxus pioneer Alison Knowles looks to the future in her 3D-printed work made of clay The House of Dust: the first of its kind in the world.

Proceeds will benefit the organisation’s activities.
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