Location:

Sculpture Park Waldfrieden in Wuppertal

Date:

until January 1st 2026

This year, the Capital Art Compass celebrates its 55th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Tony Cragg has created a limited edition on paper.

A visit to Tony Cragg’s Sculpture Park Waldfrieden in Wuppertal never fails to surprise. In addition to his monumental yet multifaceted sculptures, Cragg is presenting in his solo exhibition “Line of Thought” (open until January 1) 24 recent works in blown glass—and 188 drawings. For Cragg (whom the director of Vienna’s Albertina once described as the most important sculptor of our time), works on paper are not mere studies for his sculptures, but assert themselves as autonomous art. “Drawing is for me a form of thinking in motion,” he says. “I draw to understand what form can be, how it lives, changes, and fades.”

Cragg is best known for form in three dimensions, and with his unmistakable sculptures he gained 9,400 compass points this year—the highest score for 2025. Yet his exquisite drawings are just as impressive.