Explore Found Objects Artists

Rosy Keyser is an American painter known for her visceral, materially rich abstract canvases. Her work combines raw pigment, found objects, and unconventional tools, embracing chance and process to create dynamic, textured surfaces that evoke natural forces and primal energies.

Katja Strunz is a German artist known for her sculptural installations that explore concepts of time, space, and memory. Her work often features geometric forms and fractured planes, using materials like wood, metal, and cardboard to create abstract environments that evoke historical rupture and fragmented realities.

Darren Bader is an American conceptual artist known for his witty, often absurd, interventions and juxtapositions of found objects, text, and digital media. His practice questions artistic authorship, value, and the very definition of art through unconventional exhibitions and projects that challenge viewer expectations.

John Bock is a German artist whose anarchic performances and immersive installations fuse absurdist theatre, pseudo-scientific lectures, and sculpture. His "lectures" often involve grotesque costumes, found objects, and incomprehensible language, creating a chaotic yet meticulously constructed universe that subverts rational thought.

Uri Aran is an Israeli artist based in New York, whose multidisciplinary practice spans video, sculpture, drawing, and installation. His work often employs disjointed narratives and subtle gestures to explore themes of control, communication, and the uncanny in everyday objects and interactions.

Andreas Slominski is a German artist acclaimed for his conceptual sculptures and installations, often centered around the motif of the "trap." His practice subtly subverts mundane objects and situations, using humor and paradox to question the nature of art, functionality, and perception within an everyday context.

Steven Claydon is a British artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, video, and sound, often exploring the intersection of ancient history, technology, and occultism. His work creates enigmatic narratives through carefully selected objects and materials, evoking a sense of fractured time and hidden knowledge.

Helen Marten is a British artist, a Turner Prize winner, celebrated for her intricate and poetic sculptural assemblages. Her work transforms ordinary objects and materials into new, often whimsical, configurations, exploring the tactile qualities of form, language, and the semiotics of everyday life with intellectual playfulness.

Urs Fischer is a Swiss artist known for his boundary-pushing, often provocative sculptures and installations. His diverse practice employs various materials, from clay to melting wax, and explores themes of decay, transformation, and the ephemeral nature of existence with wit and conceptual rigor.

Sarah Lucas is a British artist, a pivotal YBA figure, known for her provocative sculptures and installations. Her work boldly confronts gender, sexuality, and the human body using everyday objects and raw materials, often with dark humor and an unflinching, visceral directness.