Archive

Algorithm Of Eden is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Atol is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Canvas Fish is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

A neural maelstrom that captures the total absorption of the self. Concentric circles replace the face, pulling identity and the external world into an infinite, unstoppable spiral of self-analysis. It is a snapshot of the digital singularity—a body transformed into a bottomless swirl where the core of being is no longer a solid point.

A biomechanical entanglement between host and burden. The kneeling figure exists in a state of silent surrender, anchored by an ambiguous organic mass that blurs the line between life-support and parasite. It is the physical weight of a forced evolution, a morbid meditation on the inescapable connection between the body and its destined path.

A return to the primal baseline of being, free from the pressure to perform or optimize. This figure exists in a state of quiet, unadorned presence, slightly out of sync with a relentless world. It is a reminder of the simple dignity found in breathing and openness, where "being" is enough.

I sit upon the crushed remains of my world, the only thing left of a home and a life that no longer exist. This is the heavy silence of the aftermath, where the boundary between my identity and my possessions has been ground into dust. I am the guardian of a graveyard of objects, forced to confront the absolute worthlessness of "owning" anything when everything has already been lost.

Exit Strategy is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

The vulnerability of the man-machine hybrid, stripped of flesh to reveal a core of circuitry. By housing the processing unit in the pelvic cradle, the work suggests that identity and drive are rooted in gut instinct rather than cold, cranial logic. A revealing look at our internal programming—at once a source of hidden strength and a delicate, mechanical fragility.

Feather CEO is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Feather Founder is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Firmware Of Faith is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

He rises from the mud — slower, lighter, attentive. No tools, no systems, no instructions left. This time, he pauses. This time, he learns.

A seated figure gathers into itself. Concentric rings draw the form toward a quiet center.

Khala Conduit is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Le LAbyrinth De Lesprit is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Moonfall Memory is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

The surface of the face resembles a lunar landscape — porous, cratered, marked by countless small impacts. What might appear as damage reads instead as exposure, as if the form has been shaped by long contact with an unfamiliar environment.

Motherboard is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

I am shaped from the dirt and slowly returning to it. My injuries are not wounds, but part of my very substance; I sit here in absolute, almost cruel indifference toward my own decay. There is no resistance left, only the silent acceptance of a fragile existence that has found its place in the mud.

Evolution has outsourced birth. A human no longer designed to reproduce. The body has stepped aside; What once required womb and blood now propagates through code and network.

A moment of complete detachment. The weightless suspension creates a distance from the viewer, placing the figure in an isolated, private realm—floating in deep space or drifting beneath the surface. This distance serves a single purpose: to allow for total hyper-focus and inner stillness. It is a state of absolute acceptance, where the noise of the external world is silenced to find the clarity and strength needed for a transformation to begin.

Silence is not empty. It is enough.

Sub Routine is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Tears Of Time is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

The Adapted Face is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

The Missing Curve is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

The Runtime Protocol acts as a silent archaeology of a fictional civilization, documenting the inevitable path from programmed order to systemic collapse. It traces the tension between the cold precision of a digital blueprint and the unpredictable, hand-written signals of a living identity. These four artifacts examine how complex systems eventually break under their own weight—a transition from pure information to the final silence of the fragment.

The Thing That Made Me is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.

Survival demands mutation. This piece explores the violent necessity of change: when a new environment offers no oxygen, the body must grow the organs it needs to endure. It captures the raw adaptation where identity lags behind physical evolution. I am showing the moment where shame is merely a transitional state on the path to a new, functional existence. It is about the brutal beauty of refusing to perish by choosing to become something unrecognizable.

After my thyroid resection, the throat carries a silent history. This work is about what remains after intervention: altered balance, changed sensation, continued existence. Not trauma — but a body adjusting, holding its own memory.

This work is a bridge between fiction and archaeology. It is a fossilized "what if"—an artifact from a world where the leap into a new state of being has already occurred. By blending the look of an ancient relic with hints of foreign technology, it makes the idea of transcendence tangible. It is the artistic manifestation of a possibility: that others have already left their shells behind, leaving only this silent evidence of their transformation.

A body trained for screens, not gravity. The device survived. The posture did not.

Zyra is an original, hand-finished sculpture by Berlin-based sculptor and art craftsman Richard Schumann (SpezialUniversal). The work belongs to the Archive series and is designed for collectors looking for unique contemporary sculpture. Material: polymer core, copper surface. Year: 2025. Commissions and custom sculpture inquiries are welcome via SpezialUniversal in Berlin.