Finissage

After six months, the exhibition TONY CRAGG came to a close on Saturday, October 26, 2025, with a lively finissage in the illuminated Sculpture Garden. Over 500 guests attended to experience the works once more in a special atmosphere, accompanied by live music.

The closing event marked the celebratory conclusion of the exhibition TONY CRAGG after six months. Visitors had the opportunity to experience the sculptures one last time in the illuminated garden and to be inspired by Cragg’s impressive works—live accompanied by the musicians David and Alexander Jacobi.

Since April 26, ten monumental sculptures were on display in the public space—including the over 6-meter-high stainless steel double sculpture Points of View on the Mathildenhöhe and the fiberglass sculpture Mean Average in the Sculpture Garden—supplemented by smaller sculptures and drawings inside the Spanischer Turm. Over more than half a year, this created an impressive dialogue between art, nature, and space.

The exhibition was realized by the Skulpturengarten Spanischer Turm in close collaboration with the Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt and with support from the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, Sparkasse Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, and Ehrenamt für Darmstadt e. V. In total, around 45,000 people visited the exhibition, accompanied by nearly 50 guided tours that provided in-depth insights into Tony Cragg’s work.

Highlights of the accompanying program included bus trips to the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, where Tony Cragg’s exhibition TONY CRAGG Line of Thought runs until 2026, as well as to the Heidelberg Sculpture Park, where five additional works were shown in parallel to the Darmstadt exhibition. Other program highlights included an exclusive artist talk at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and participation in the International Museum Day and the Day of Open Monuments, rounding out the extensive exhibition program.