10 Largest Art Installations

Size isn’t everything (especially when it comes to art), but sometimes the sheer size of an art installation blows your mind. Here are the world’s largest art installations.

Giant Rubber Ducky

This giant rubber ducky was created by Florentijn Hofman, a Dutch artist who has made a name for himself by making playful urban installations. In 2007 his giant, inflatable duck was first blown up and released on the waters of Saint-Nazaire, France. Since then, every time the Rubber Duck is presented somewhere in the world it makes the news. It’s 26x20x32 meters!

Sunflower Seeds

This might not be the largest installation in size, but it’s certainly the largest when it comes to the number of “components”. Ai Weiwei’s seminal work is over 100 million ceramic sunflower seeds, each hand crafted and hand painted, spread on an installation that covers over 1000 square meters. The piece symbolises the people of China and encourages people to think about the role of an individual in society at large.

The Leviathan

I mean, with a name like that, of course this art installation is going to be huge. Its highest point is 35m above ground, and the overall area of the piece is over 14 thousand square meters. It’s impossible to see the entire thing from any one place, so the work encourages people to walk around and inside it to truly experience it.

The Matter of Time

The writer inside me loves the name of this piece. It’s a play on the fact that scientists think “space and time are a material”, as well as the phrase “It’s only a matter of time”.

This piece by Richard Serra is huge, and encourages the audience to go inside. Because it’s so tall, you can’t see anything around you except the corridor that leads you ever forward (just like linear time does).