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This sculpture looks like a solid steel head. It’s actually made from stainless steel mesh. From far away it feels monumental. Up close it almost disappears. No sound. No spectacle. Just material and silence. In a culture obsessed with bigger and louder, that restraint feels powerful.

A life-size kinetic horse built entirely from exposed steel and moving parts by artist Adrian Landon #kineticart #artandtechnology

The stickwork installations of Patrick Dougherty are built slowly, using saplings gathered from the landscape and woven into inhabitable forms. #environmentalart #landart #publicart #artandnature

Artificial Humans by Atelier Haute Cuisine begins as an AI-generated image and becomes a series of glowing sculptural bodies, cast from real people. Created by Benny Conings and Bernd Tyskens, the work reflects on how we move through the world today. #AIArt #PublicArt #ArtAndTechnology #LightArt

Gateway by Lachlan Turczan is not meant to be watched. It is meant to be experienced. #ImmersiveArt #LightArt #ArtExperience

Most artworks are encountered. Anthony James’ work is entered. Mirror, light, and precision open space rather than fill it. The technology disappears. What remains is presence. #lightart #immersiveart #contemporaryart

Einder / Wind by Boris Acket, shown at Kraftwerk Berlin.

Painting as space. Artist Siyi Mao expands painterly practice into virtual environments, where colour and gesture are experienced from within the work. Curated by molten.art. #MoltenArt #ImmersiveArt #VRArt #ContemporaryArt

Through thousands of individual threads, Gabriel Dawe transforms architecture into a living spectrum of light. Colour shifts with movement. Light becomes something you experience. #GabrielDawe #InstallationArt #LightAndSpace #TextileArt #MoltenArt #MoltenCurates #artcurator

Tunnel of Light by Korean media artist Youhwan turns vibration, sound, and movement into a moment of awareness beneath Seoul’s railway. #MediaArt #LightArt #Seoul #PublicArt #Youhwan

Czech glass artist Jaroslav Prošek transforms glass & steel into forms that seem alive with light. His sculpture Pandora, inspired by Avatar, captures that fine balance between vision and precision. Available through Habatat Galleries #GlassArt #Sculpture #ContemporaryArt #MoltenArt #MoltenCurates

Aquaballet by Marianne Aventurier reminds us how art and nature move as one. Filmed in French Polynesia with Alex Voyer, this underwater dance is pure poetry in motion. #Aquaballet #UnderwaterArt #ArtAndNature #MoltenArt #ArtCurator

sometimes, all we need is a little bit of magic #MerryChristmasEveryone

Two thousand lights rise into the night, tracing the unseen currents that move our world. They flow like wind across the desert, breathing with the rhythm of nature. Wind of Change by Studio Drift, where light and motion become one. On view at Manar Abu Dhabi until January 4.

Animaris Rex. A 19 metre Strandbeest by artist Theo Jansen. Powered only by wind and physics, this work sits somewhere between sculpture and living system. It walks, adapts, and responds to its environment. #TheoJansen #Strandbeest #KineticArt #ArtAndScience #ArtInMotion #MoltenArt #MoltenCurates

Artist Melissa Mathieson has filled the Shot Tower with funny frogs, cheeky cherries, and colourful bug besties — a playful glasshouse floating above the city. See Bloom at Melbourne Central, Level 1 until January 27 #MelissaMathieson #UrbanArt #PlayfulDesign #PublicArt #MoltenArt

Analog warmth. Digital precision. Glass Void blends glitch, motion, and light to create visuals that feel otherworldly. Where chaos meets control, beauty emerges. #GlassVoid #DigitalArt #GlitchArt #VisualArt #ArtTech

Take a moment to pause and breathe. Athlete Adrien Raza skimboards across the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, where a thin layer of water turns the salt flats into a natural mirror and the horizon disappears. Proof that inspiration often comes from simply slowing down and looking around.

Manu is a land artist creating large scale drawings in sand that exist only for a moment before the tide returns. #Manu #LandArt #EphemeralArt #ArtAndNature #SiteSpecificArt #MoltenArt

JAGO has been shaping David for two years, carving strength, vulnerability, and presence from Carrara marble. This David is a woman, a reimagining that speaks to courage and humanity beyond gender. Each gesture, especially the hand, reveals emotion in motion. #Jago #Sculpture #MoltenArt

He paints with light, not brushes. Artist Max Zorn builds luminous portraits using only packing tape... an art form born on Amsterdam’s street lamps and now exhibited around the world. Innovation often starts with a simple material and a new way of seeing. #MaxZorn #ArtInnovation #LightArt

Who said flying is limited to the sky? This footage shows the largest known migration of mobula rays, captured in the waters of Baja California Sur. Filmed by freediver and photographer Aidan Bedford. A quiet reminder that art often begins with attention. #NatureAsArt #VisualWonder #Observation

A single drone. A perfect ring of light. Reuben Wu turns the night into something otherworldly. Field of Infinity shows how technology and nature can create pure magic. #DroneArt #LightArt #DigitalArt #MoltenCurates

Yayoi Kusama’s visionary world takes over Fondation Beyeler in Basel. The first major Swiss retrospective, spanning 70 years of her extraordinary career. See it before 25 Jan 2026. #YayoiKusama #ContemporaryArt #Basel

From scrap to sculpture — Metalmorphosis by Brian Mock captures the beauty of renewal. Film by Sam Forencich. #Art #Sculpture #Metalwork #BrianMock

Phorest by 1024 Architecture reimagines a field as a digital forest where bamboo, laser and software move as one. A quiet dialogue between the organic and the algorithmic. Video: Alban Duchateau #LightArt #DigitalArt #KineticArt #InstallationArt #LaserArt #ArtAndTechnology #MoltenCurates

Do Ho Suh transforms entire homes into vast graphite impressions, tracing every surface by hand. His Rubbing/Loving Project captures the memories a space holds long after we leave it. #DoHoSuh #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #RubbingLovingProject #ArtAndMemory

Australian duo Craig & Karl transform the familiar into the extraordinary. Their Walk This Way project for Brisbane Festival turns the city’s walkways into living artworks — bursts of colour and joy woven into daily life. #CraigAndKarl #BrisbaneFestival #PublicArt #CityAsCanvas #MoltenCurates

Playmodes reimagine space through geometry, rhythm, and perception. Their work Beyond transforms a tunnel of light and sound into a journey through dualities — darkness and illumination, stillness and motion. #LightArt #GenerativeArt #SoundDesign #ArtAndTechnology #MoltenCurates