Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027 Artist Announcement
The fifth edition is directed by Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović and will take place from 13 June to 3 October 2027

from left Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, and Sabina Sabolović (What, How & for Whom). Photo: Hanna Neander / LWL
The first group of artists participating in Skulptur Projekte Münster 2027 has been announced. The fifth edition is directed by Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović – founding members of curatorial collective What, How & for Whom (WHW) – and will take place from 13 June to 3 October 2027.
Skulptur Projekte was founded in 1977 and takes place every ten years in Münster.
The artists and corresponding locations for their works announced so far include:
Iza Tarasewicz (b.1981, Białystok, Poland) at Gut Kinderhaus, a residential area catering for various disabilities and a former farm.
Hew Locke (b.1959, Edinburgh, UK) at Haus der Niederlande im Krameramtshaus, the site of the peace treaty negotiations between the Netherlands and Spain, ending the Eighty Years’ War in 1648.
Selma Selman (b.1991, Bihać, Bosnia) at the former Hörster Friedhof, a nineteenth-century cemetery.
Róza El-Hassan (b.1966, Budapest, Hungary) at both the Botanical Garden behind the Baroque Schloss and in the 1960s-build residential district of Berg Fidel.
Oscar Murillo (b.1986, La Paila, Colombia) at the former York-Kaserne, now a Central Accommodation Facility for refugees awaiting processing.
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