One Minute Sculptures documents one of the central conceptual bodies of work by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm.

Since the late 1980s, Wurm has developed the idea of sculptures that exist only temporarily through simple instructions performed by participants. Everyday objects—chairs, clothing, bottles, or walls—are combined with specific bodily gestures, producing short-lived sculptural situations that last only for a minute before dissolving again.The photographs in the book function as both documentation and final form of these ephemeral works. Through concise visual instructions and staged images, Wurm expands the traditional definition of sculpture, shifting it from a permanent object to a performative action involving the body and ordinary materials.

The publication brings together a sequence of these sculptural propositions, revealing how humour, absurdity, and physical imbalance become tools for questioning conventions of sculpture and authorship. The book remains one of the earliest printed presentations of Wurm’s influential One Minute Sculptures series.