3D Art/ Special Edition

With Volume 88, Collect Art turns its full attention to the expanded field of three-dimensional art, a realm where material, space, body, and imagination intersect. This special edition brings together an international selection of artists whose practices unfold beyond the surface, inviting viewers into physical, emotional, and conceptual encounters with form. Sculpture, installation, ceramics, and contemporary object-based works take centre stage, revealing how 3D art continues to evolve as one of the most vital languages of our time.

Three-dimensional art has always held a unique relationship to presence. Unlike images confined to the page or screen, sculptural works occupy space alongside us; they demand bodily awareness, movement, and proximity. In this edition, we explore how contemporary artists activate this relationship—how they use volume, weight, fragility, scale, and material intelligence to shape new ways of seeing and feeling. The works featured here are not merely objects but propositions: they question how we inhabit space, how we relate to matter, and how form carries memory, identity, and cultural meaning.

Across these pages, readers will encounter sculptures that echo the human body, installations that reshape architectural environments, ceramics that blur the line between ritual object and contemporary art, and experimental forms that challenge traditional definitions of craft and sculpture alike. The diversity of approaches reflects the richness of today’s 3D practices—where disciplines overlap, materials converse, and boundaries are intentionally unsettled.

This volume brings together artists from different geographic, cultural, and conceptual backgrounds, yet all share a commitment to material thinking. Whether working with clay, metal, wood, industrial components, found objects, or hybrid processes that incorporate digital technologies, these artists treat material not as a passive medium but as an active collaborator. Cracks, textures, surfaces, and imperfections become carriers of meaning, speaking to themes such as transformation, vulnerability, resilience, migration, ecology, memory, and embodiment.

Beyond the artworks themselves, Volume 88 places strong emphasis on the voices of the artists. Each feature includes biographies that trace artistic journeys, statements that articulate conceptual frameworks, and personalized interviews that offer insight into process, motivation, and lived experience. These conversations reveal the thinking behind the making—how ideas emerge through touch, repetition, failure, and time. In doing so, the magazine aims not only to present finished works but to illuminate the labour, research, and reflection embedded within them.

In an era increasingly shaped by speed, immateriality, and virtual experience, 3D art offers a necessary counterpoint. It asks us to slow down, to look carefully, to navigate space with awareness. Many of the artists featured here engage directly with this tension—between permanence and ephemerality, tradition and innovation, function and symbolism. Their works remind us that physical presence still matters, that objects can hold stories, and that making by hand remains a powerful form of knowledge.

This special edition also reflects Collect Art’s ongoing commitment to creating platforms for dialogue between artists, curators, collectors, and wider audiences. By dedicating an entire volume to three-dimensional practices, we seek to foreground the relevance of sculptural thinking within contemporary art discourse and to celebrate artists who work courageously within—and beyond—material constraints.

As you move through Volume 88, we invite you to engage with the works not only visually but imaginatively. Consider how these objects might feel, how they alter space, how they resonate with your own bodily awareness and lived experience. Let this issue be an invitation to reflect, to question, and to rediscover the quiet and powerful ways that three-dimensional art continues to shape our understanding of the world.