There are some things in life, that local and foreign people would designate as 100 % typical German. In the matter of food culture the famous German “Currywurst” (curry sausage) should be one of the top answers and the brand Volkswagen when it comes to automotive culture. In reply to the question of whether it is possible to erect a combined memorial for both, the answer would have been a simple “no” recently. Since March 2015, as an ingeniously succeeded symbiosis came out first, this has been changed.
The Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, who is known for his work that portrays manipulated images of things in everyday life, had the idea to combine both cult objects. His idea felt on sympathetic ears at the headquarters of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and as he experienced difficulties during the realization of his idea, he immediately received support from several sides. The art museum of Wolfsburg was on hand, 17 trainees of the Audi-VW Group were allocated to work on the project and even in finding a suitable vehicle he got support. Retirees of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles division made a find in Greece and brought a VW T2b back to Wolfsburg. For its new intended use the whole interior was removed. New steel parts built the framework for the installation of a modern kitchen unit fitted with a deep fryer and a powerful cooker hood in the headliner. Externally the car body was supposed to look totally different compared to a traditional T2b to depict the homage also visually. Thick styrofoam parts were glued with putty and expanding foam on the tin bodywork to visualize a paunchy sausage on the VW. After repainting it in a colorful orange at the paint shop AutoVison in Salzgitter, everybody should have been delighted with the result.
From March 22 until September 13 in 2015 the mutated VW T2b Baywindow was part of the exhibition “Erwin Wurm, Fichte” at the art museum of Wolfsburg.
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