Our recent Projects

Ai Weiwei – Forever Bicycles at The Forks

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Mtec is honoured to have delivered the installation of Ai Weiwei’s iconic Forever Bicycles once again, this time at The Forks, Winnipeg, Canada. This monumental sculpture, composed of hundreds of interconnected stainless steel bicycles, is one of Ai Weiwei’s most recognisable works, symbolising movement, freedom, and the passage of time.

Bringing a sculpture of this scale and complexity to life requires specialist handling, logistical precision, and expert installation techniques—all of which Mtec is proud to provide. Our team worked closely with project partners to ensure the structure was assembled safely and with meticulous attention to detail, maintaining Ai Weiwei’s artistic vision while navigating the challenges of installing such a large-scale outdoor piece.

Situated at The Forks, one of Canada’s most historic and culturally significant sites, Forever Bicycles will serve as a captivating landmark for visitors and art enthusiasts alike. Our involvement in this project highlights Mtec’s ongoing commitment to supporting major international art installations, making world-renowned artworks accessible to public audiences around the globe.

We are incredibly proud to have been entrusted with this project and look forward to continuing our work on landmark art installations worldwide.

Philip Colbert – ‘The Battle for Lobsteropolis’ at Saatchi Gallery

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Mtec is delighted to have played a key role in the delivery of Philip Colbert’s latest exhibition, The Battle for Lobsteropolis at Saatchi Gallery, London. Known for his bold, pop-infused aesthetic and larger-than-life lobster persona, Colbert’s immersive exhibition invites audiences into a surreal, battle-scarred world where contemporary culture, art history, and digital innovation collide.

Our expert team handled the specialist transportation, installation, and logistical coordination required to bring Colbert’s dynamic vision to life. From monumental sculptures to vibrant, 2D multi-dimensional artworks, our technicians worked meticulously to ensure each piece was installed with precision and care, delivering a seamless exhibition experience.

Mtec’s ongoing commitment to supporting groundbreaking contemporary art aligns perfectly with Colbert’s boundary-pushing approach. The Battle for Lobsteropolis is more than just an exhibition—it’s an interactive narrative that blurs the lines between physical and digital realities, and we are proud to have facilitated its journey from concept to installation.

FRIEZE Sculpture 2024

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We’re proud to announce and share our involvement as the sole logistics provider for FRIEZE Sculpture 2024, a role that underscores our ongoing commitment to delivering world-class fine art logistics solutions and installations. As one of the most anticipated events in the international art calendar, FRIEZE Sculpture transforms Regent’s Park into an open-air gallery, showcasing monumental works by leading contemporary artists.

FRIEZE Sculpture is a cornerstone event in our Mtec calendar, reflecting our dedication to supporting public art exhibitions that engage and inspire audiences. Our partnership with FRIEZE spans multiple years, solidifying our reputation as the go-to logistics provider for high-profile sculpture installations. The project demands precision, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of large-scale artworks, ensuring that each sculpture is installed seamlessly and safely within the historic landscape of Regent’s Park.

Curated by Fatoş Üstek, Frieze Sculpture expanded for its 12th edition to include work from 22 leading international artists sited throughout the park’s historic English Garden. Mtec Fine Art’s partnership with FRIEZE Sculpture 2024 exemplifies our expertise in fine art logistics and our ability to execute complex installations. Our team of specialists manage every aspect of the logistics process, from transportation and handling to the complex engineering challenges involved in installing monumental sculptures. Each piece requires a tailored approach, with Mtec’s expertise ensuring that artists’ visions are brought to life with the highest level of care and attention to detail.

Sculpture In The City – The 13th Edition

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Mtec has proudly supported Sculpture In The City with installations for another year. The 13th Edition of the annual event has launched and is open to the public.

Sculpture in the City is an annual urban sculpture park set amidst the iconic architecture of the City’s insurance district, bringing world-class contemporary art to the heart of London’s Square Mile. Our team provided specialist logistical expertise, ensuring the safe transportation, handling, and installation of a diverse range of monumental artworks across the city’s iconic streets and public spaces.

Ten new sculptures by Samuel Ross, Richard Mackness, Ida Ekblad, Julian Opie, Hilary Jack, Daniel Silver, Seph Li, Maya Rose Edwards, and Clare Burnett join five works retained from previous editions, as well as two permanent acquisitions.

This year’s new sculptures include the interactive work Kissing Gate by Maya Rose Edwards, situated in Aldgate Square, which playfully brings a rural kissing gate into the urban landscape, prompting romantic encounters between passers-by. At The Leadenhall Building, Hilary Jack’s Deluge invites reflection on the climate crisis with two LED text strips resembling a scrolling newsreel, one of them displaying real-time flood data and the other narrating ancient flood myths.

Our Mtec team play a big part in arranging the delivery and installation of each public art sculpture on display, and this 13th edition promises to continue the tradition of transforming the City’s public spaces into a vibrant open-air gallery.

This year, we continued our partnership with LACUNA Projects, supporting LACUNA with facilitating wider projects and ambitious site-specific installations. LACUNA Projects plays a crucial role in shaping public art engagement, bridging the gap between artists, institutions, and the city itself. Our collaboration ensures that large-scale, complex works can be realised with precision and care, allowing for seamless integration into the urban landscape.

If you haven’t yet explored this year’s exhibition, be sure to visit and experience the incredible works on display!

Marc Quinn | Light into Life

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The completion of another incredible display for a valued client that we’re extremely proud to have been a part of. Our Mtec team worked diligently over consecutive weeks to support our client Marc Quinn with several stunning installations as part of his latest exhibition ‘Light into Life’, which is now on view. 🔦🌱

Our growing Mtec departments once again worked collaboratively to ensure a smooth and reliable experience, utilising our Customs TA Regime before assisting our client further with transport and installations.

This latest exhibition focuses on Quinn’s interests and play with nature and humanity, bringing concepts of that relationship to life. The mirror effect of sculptures on display gives each visitor a unique experience and feeling of being part of the artwork and landscape. The sculptures also explore the many ways that plants form an essential part of human life.

Glyndebourne | Conrad Shawcross ‘Paradigms’

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The delivery of another fantastic project to be proud of. We supported Glyndebourne with preparations for Festival 2024, celebrating 90 years of Glyndebourne in collaboration with one of Britain’s leading artists, Conrad Shawcross RA. Together they have produced a bold presentation of visual artworks which have been unveiled upon the grounds, with a rooted connection to music and sound. 🎭✨

Our assistance involved the transport and installation of nine large outdoor sculptures titled ‘Paradigms’, here seen together for the first time. The sculptures are associated with works on paper featured in their Archive Gallery, and 14 bronze sculptures displayed in the Old Green Room.

‘Expansion Fields’ is a presentation of both new and existing bodies of work from Shawcross, encapsulating over 20 years of practice and research into ideas around the creation of the universe and its fundamental principles. 🌌

Compton Verney | Sculpture in the Park

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Following the completion and handover of some extraordinary projects across Europe, our Mtec team advanced with installations to support our client Compton Verney with ‘Sculpture in the Park 2024’. Celebrating 20 years of art, nature and creativity, Compton Verney aim to continue founder Sir Peter Moores’ legacy, with their fantastic exhibitions and spectacular scenery. 🏞🗿

Our team spent a total of two weeks upon the grounds of this historic landscape, completing a total of five installations. From customs, to storage and transport, we introduced work by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st century, such as Louise Bourgeois, renowned for her monumental spider sculptures and Turner Prize-nominated British artist, Helen Chadwick.

Dee Williams, Director and Project Manager: “It was our pleasure to help construct the 20th Anniversary show at Compton Verney, our project team conducted multiple meetings in advance and during the course of the project to identify the needs of the team at Compton Verney. It’s never an easy feat building a sculpture park during the last days of winter going into spring. The seamless communication and relationship built during the project was key to its success.”

Banca March Gardens, Madrid | Lynda Benglis

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Our Mtec team often deliver projects across the EU. This project in particular saw much of our workforce assist with installations to support our client, Banca March with a collection of water feature sculptures created by artist, Lynda Benglis. 🗿⛲

A total of four installations were completed by our designated team over a period of six days and nights. All unloading had to be carried out after dark, and with busy days and accounting for rest periods, our drivers and technicians spent a total of 14 days on the road.

Growing up on a lake, Benglis became fascinated by the movement of water, feeling its gravitational pull manifest in all of her works. The installations on view – Knight Mer (2007-22), Fruited Plane (2021), Pink Lady (2014), and Crescendo (1983-84/2014-15) – explore fountains and water as powerful symbols of sustainability and the eternal.

Between March 5th to June 2024, Madrid’s Banca March Gardens will showcase the four monumental installations by the renowned American sculptor. Marking her first exhibition in Spain, the artist, celebrated by Life magazine in 1970 as an heir of Jackson Pollock, continues to dazzle with her spectacular creations even after six decades of work.

Memorial Pole Rematriation | National Museums Scotland

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Following a considerable amount of planning, we embarked on a journey to complete another monumental challenge and project to be proud of.

It’s been a huge honour working alongside National Museums Scotland and being appointed to support our client with the rematriation of the hand-carved, ‘House of Ni’isjoohl Memorial Pole’ for the Nisga’a family back in Nass Valley, Canada.

Carved from a red cedar tree, the memorial pole had been on permanent display in the museum for 94 years, having moved only three times. The pole dates back from 1860 and had been commissioned to honour a warrior named Ts’awit, who had died in battle.

FRIEZE Sculpture 2023

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It’s been that time of year for us at Mtec Fine Art where the majority of our workforce assemble and come together over consecutive days to deliver installations of public artworks across 📍Regent’s Park, London for FRIEZE Sculpture 2023.

The annual rollout of operations to support FRIEZE is always challenging. Many projects see changes to plans during the installation process, where our team of experienced Project Managers and Technicians cohesively rectify any issues and implement solutions to ensure deadlines are met and our clients are kept satisfied. Inevitably, and with over 20 installations to support FRIEZE packed into just a few calendar days, forward thinking and the scale of reactive solutions throughout the delivery process only heightens.

The Knife Angel – Tour

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Mtec is proud to be involved with the logistics and installations to support the next schedule of locations and planned movement of the Knife Angel sculpture, created by artist, Alfie Bradley.

The first stop for us is 📍 Harlow Playhouse.

Following some maintenance work with the The British Ironwork Centre, the 27ft tall sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades stands again as a poignant reminder of the lives lost and the damage caused by knife crime. The inspiring artwork serves as a catalyst for conversations, education, and positive change within communities.

The sculpture was specifically created to highlight the negative effects of violent behaviour whilst solidifying our critical need for social change. Not only does the Knife Angel act as a catalyst for turning the tide on antisocial behaviour, but also acts as a beautiful memorial designed to celebrate lives that have been lost through violent and thoughtless actions.

We look forward to updating you in the near future with forthcoming movement and locations.

Sculpture In The City – The 12th Edition

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Mtec has proudly supported Sculpture In The City with installations across the Square Mile for another year. The 12th Edition of the annual event has now launched and is open to the public.

Sculpture in the City is an annual urban sculpture park set amidst the iconic architecture of the City’s insurance district. Every summer, the City of London, in partnership with local businesses, unveils a brand-new selection of artworks by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists.

Our Mtec team play a big part in arranging the delivery and installation of each 18 public art sculptures for display. A thorough amount of hard work and planning goes into each year, however, once the final installations are complete we’re able to see the result of our efforts. To meet this years deadline for launch, we carried out installations over three consecutive weekends in early June, following a similar schedule of deinstallations prior.

It’s always great to see and appreciate the positive updates shared online throughout the year from associated partners of the project, the artists, visitors working within the art industry, as well as tourists and the general public.

The 12th Edition of Sculpture in the City totals 152 artworks by 129 artists to date, continuing to grow from strength to strength with world-class contemporary sculptures, animating one of the most dynamic parts of the City of London. In addition to the artworks on display, each year Sculpture in the City also delivers a bespoke education programme.

Design Museum – Ai Weiwei: ‘Making Sense’ Exhibition

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Mtec recently assisted with the transport and installation of artworks in preparation for the Ai Weiwei: ‘Making Sense’ Exhibition at the Design Museum, London.

As one of the most significant and recognised artists today, this exhibition draws on Ai’s fascination with historical Chinese artefacts, placing their traditional craftsmanship in dialogue with the more recent history of demolition and urban development in China. Ai has often worked with found objects that represent everyday life. Using precious materials, he is also known to transform something useful but worthless into something useless
but valuable.

Including the work ‘Spouts’, another covered area is made up of more than 250,000 porcelain spouts from teapots and wine ewers, crafted by hand during the Song dynasty. One wall features the ‘Life Vest Snake’, made from 140 life vests which were once worn by refugees who crossed the ocean from Africa and the Middle East, to reach the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016. The life vests of the adults and children used to create the snake are a stark reminder of ongoing
refugee issues.

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Spring Exhibition – Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture

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Marking what would have been his 99th birthday, Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013), widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential sculptors, is the subject of the Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery spring exhibition.

Pitzhanger Manor was the country home of Sir John Soane, who is regarded as one of the most influential architects in British history. Soane designed many extraordinary buildings, but Pitzhanger is almost unique as a building designed, built and lived in by Soane himself.

Preparation for the Pitzhanger spring exhibition involved Mtec handling the transportation and installation of some significant Caro work.

The Litorral Zone Exhibition – Marc Quinn

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The Littoral Zone exhibition included sculptures, paintings and installations which were shown throughout the oceanographic museum, alongside its collection of marine specimens and underwater fauna. Over 60 works by Marc Quinn were installed inside and outside the museum, including new works such as the The Origin of the World (Cassis madagascariensis) Indian Ocean, 310, a huge 3 metre bronze shell, new underwater paintings from the series The Zone, Self 2011 and Planet, and a 10 metre bronze baby that welcomed visitors to the historic building.

Phillips – 20th Century & Contemporary Art

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We pride ourselves on delivering a high level of service for our clients using our extensive experience in handling fine art. Mtec has been providing ongoing support for our client Phillips, and recently were involved with events such as their 20th Century & Contemporary Art auction in London.

Our Mtec team assists with transport of the incoming lots, expediting time sensitive shipments and installations as required. Following the auctions, our services involve supporting the logistics of the sales.We’ve developed a great relationship with Phillips over the years and the presence of our Mtec staff who make themselves available for events is always honoured.