Erwin Wurm’s artistic practice incorporates sculpture, performance, photography, video, and installation. It is unified by a combination of formal concerns, a sense of humour, and a problematisation of contemporary society. Through humorous and absurd elements, the artist deals with the mentality of progress and the symbols of success, sometimes deforming familiar scenes from everyday life to disturbing levels. Wurm's playful criticism in art has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; MUMOK, Vienna; the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and many other prominent institutions around the world. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Albertina, Vienna; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago; Kunsthaus, Zürich; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and many others.

Wurm’s humorous attitude towards representation features heavily in his work Ohne Titel, in which he purposefully disfigures commodities and their elevation to status symbols in mass culture. Wurm's use of humour to make difficult subject matter accessible is part of the tradition of Fluxus, which he defines as creating the possibility for open conversation about themes that may be hard to discuss. Although this work is not ephemeral (unlike his One Minute Sculptures), Wurm still challenges the formal qualities of the medium as well as the boundaries between daily life, spectator, and participant. Ohne Titel, no less than Wurm’s other works, makes a social critique of contemporary culture, particularly in response to the capitalist influences and societal pressures that the artist sees as contrary to our internal ideals.