The exhibition is a collection of Erwin's works from different periods, presenting a unique perspective on the artist's singular mix of figuration, philosophy, and the absurd. Armed with a motto of "everything is connected to everything else", Erwin Wurm thinks of the human body as a malleable, open-ended connector between the organic and the human-made, the perks of consumer culture and the stalemates of conspicuous consumption.
A number of iconic images takes centre stage in the exhibition. Fat Convertible (2005) is Wurm's famous comment on car culture, where the artist draws the notion of a vehicle as a continuation of the body to its illogical conclusion. The show also includes Flat Sculptures - paintings in which words or letters are used like sculptural objects within the pictorial space. He is less interested in the words' readability, but rather in their form, materiality and visual presence within the image. The series Attacks (2021–22) can be seen as a performative act, in which the homes of key German philosophers (Martin Heidegger, Karl Marx) are deformed using everyday food products.
The most recent body of work in the show, Substitutes (2024), is a continuation of Wurm's long standing interest in clothing as a volume that both holds the body and creates a set of meanings for its owner. The monumental scale of Substitutes, made from thin sheets of painted aluminium, presents the garments as having character in themselves, divorced from the wearer's personality.