TONY CRAGG
April 26 to October 26, 2025
From April 26 to October 26, 2025, the Skulpturengarten Spanischer Turm is presenting the exhibition TONY CRAGG in Darmstadt's public space. The extensive oeuvre of the internationally renowned sculptor of the same name includes sculptures, drawings and installations. Always characterized by an intensive exploration of natural forms and structures, his sculptures feature references to organic elements from nature.
Inspired from an early age, Tony Cragg developed a great interest in the materials, forms and structures of nature, its life cycle from its creation to the processes of transformation and its demise. He translates these insights into new, abstract, but at the same time uniquely recognizable forms. Repetition and graphic studies play a central role in the creative process.
TONY CRAGG
Sir Tony Cragg (born April 9, 1949 in Liverpool) is one of the most important sculptors of our time. The British-German artist has lived and worked in Wuppertal since 1977, where he has been running the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park with the Cragg Foundation since 2008 - a 15-hectare area where art and nature interact with each other in a unique way. Tony Cragg was principal of the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 2013. He has received numerous awards for his artistic work and commitment, including an honorary professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2015) and a knighthood as a Knight Bachelor of the United Kingdom (2016).
Tony Cragg's works can be seen all over the world: In temporary exhibitions at renowned museums such as the Louvre in Paris in 2011, the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 and the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in 2024, as well as in important collections such as the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. His works are also present in public spaces, for example in Tokyo, Milwaukee and Bonn. Tony Cragg has been represented several times at international art exhibitions such as the documenta in Kassel and the Venice, Sydney and São Paulo Biennales.
For the first time in Germany, ten of Tony Cragg's sculptures will be presented exclusively in public spaces. Tony Cragg's works will be returned to nature along a sculpture trail of around 1.5 km in length, starting with the 6-metre-high double sculpture Points of View made of stainless steel on the plateau of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Mathildenhöhe in the west, continuing through the park area of Rosenhöhe and ending with the 6-metre-high fiberglass work Mean Average in the Spanish Tower Sculpture Garden. In the Spanish Tower itself, the exhibition is supplemented by smaller sculptures and drawings.
The TONY CRAGG exhibition was created in close collaboration with the City of Science Darmstadt. Parallel to the Darmstadt exhibition, the Heidelberg Sculpture Park will be showing five sculptures around the Orthopaedic Clinic in Heidelberg-Schlierbach from May 18 to October 15, 2025.
HOURS
April 26 to October 26, 2025
Tuesday – Sunday: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
in the Spanish Tower Sculpture Garden
Monday – Sunday: 24 / 7
on Rosenhöhe and Mathildenhöhe
ADMISSION
Free
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