Veselá Rýže creates wonderfully satisfying 3D objects and puzzles designed to fit together with almost impossible precision. Shapes slide, click, stack and interlock, turning simple

This cat isn’t painted. It’s made from the forest floor. Chinese artist Niu Yifei creates astonishingly lifelike images using whatever nature gives him: Twigs, leaves,

London has a new resident on the Fourth Plinth. Tschabalala Self’s 'Lady in Blue' has arrived in Trafalgar Square, a 3.5-metre bronze sculpture portraying a

This isn’t packaging tape stuck to a canvas. It’s paint. German artist Jochen Mühlenbrink is a master of trompe-l’œil — paintings so convincing they deliberately

Do Ho Suh’s 'Floor' (1997–2000) is an extraordinary installation made from transparent glass panels supported by around 180,000 tiny cast plastic human figures. Each figure

At the Amos Rex Museum in Helsinki, Argentine artist Leandro Erlich turned architecture into an optical illusion with 'Bâtiment'— a life-size building façade reflected in

Pakistani artist Sajid Amiri creates remarkably realistic portraits and figures using nothing but industrial wire mesh. Born in Kharmang Pari, Baltistan, Amiri studied painting at

Thomas Deininger turns rubbish into remarkably lifelike birds — but the illusion only works from the right angle. His sculptures are built from discarded plastic,

Dennis Hong, director of UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), explores the poetic side of engineering in 'The Lightness of Submission'. Blending robotics and performance,