
With summer drawing to a close, here at Wallpaper* we’ve been giving a little thought to the artists and designers that have gone alfresco this season.
This year, creative expression is getting interactive with the influence of weather, reflections and even robots giving a variety of outdoor artworks a fuller multi-sensory appeal. Materials, too, are getting more ambitious, from desert limestone in Nevada to resin-coated carbon fibre at the V&A.
These man-made phenomena seem to hint that, in the great outdoors, art’s impact is ever-more impressive.
Pictured: Seven Magic Mountains, by Ugo Rondinone. Photography courtesy Nevada Museum of Art

Craig & Karl for Bread & Butter
Arena Berlin, Eichenstraße, Berlin
Though the summer sun is waning in Berlin, designers Craig & Karl have created vibrant, autumn-dispelling installations for the September fashion trade show Bread & Butter, as well as overseeing the event’s graphics and visual identity.
The bold theme of the event is simply ’now’, so correspondingly punchy colours and dynamic materials have been used throughout; as seen in this ampersand sculpture, which is intended to immediately engage and welcome visitors and traders.
Writer: Elly Parsons

Craig & Karl for Bread & Butter
Arena Berlin, Eichenstraße, Berlin
A trail of installations can be found around the bustling, cavernous warehouse, which plays host to an emoji-inspired collage of balloons, giving new meaning to the word ’pop-up’.
The trade show, which integrates fashion, food and music, required a broad, all-encompassing graphic motif. As Craig & Karl explain, ’The flexibility of the approach meant the artwork could be pulled apart and rearranged in myriad ways. The tone remained consistent but the message could be tailored to suit a particular medium or talk to a specific audience’

A New End by Jeppe Hein
World’s End, Massachusetts
Jeppe Hein’s transfixing mirrors is taking residence at World’s End in Hingham, Massachusetts. Titled A New End, the labyrinth is inspired by the snaking forms of the curvaceous hills surrounding World’s End.
Pictured: Installation view A New End, 2016, by Jeppe Hein at World’s End in Hingham, MA. Photography: Mark Gardner, Courtesy of The Trustees

Hein’s three-foot mirrors have travelled in different variations, yet they always create a similar sensory experience that leaves visitors with skewed vision of space and awareness of dimensions around them.
Photography: Mark Gardner, Courtesy of The Trustees

Uproot Rotterdam
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
A rediscovery of Rotterdam’s post-war history is taking place this season in a project by by the Fine Arts & Public Space Programme at the Center for Visual Arts and Sculpture International Rotterdam. Curated by Studio Makkink & Bey, the architecture and design duo have physically uprooted some of the city’s famous sculptures, placing them together in one location to create a new heritage narrative in a pop-up sculpture park at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
Writer: Sujata Burman. Photography: Wouter de Wit