Giant "Mini Fridge" Installation, WHOLE Festival 2025, Germany

I was part of a selected artist collective that created this oversized "mini fridge" sculpture for the WHOLE Festival in Germany 2025. We built it entirely from recycled materials (wood, paper pulp, and found objects) to create community wonder in a surreal setting.

The most meaningful part was how people interacted with it. Visitors could take whatever they wanted from inside the fridge, often food, but also various objects or leave something behind, like their own marks or personal items. This created an ongoing exchange between strangers.

The sculpture was designed to be temporary and was destroyed at the festival's end, embracing impermanence rather than permanence. This playful contradiction, a giant "mini" fridge made from waste materials that people could freely use, challenged our ideas about ownership, scale, and consumption.

The project connected my studio practice with public, collaborative art-making, showing how art can build community through shared, temporary experiences.

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Citation by the mini fridge collective