

Swiss comedian and artist Ursus Wherlie has maybe the most Swiss outlook on art I’ve ever seen. He takes a mix of everyday items and other artists’ works and “tidies them up,” organizing them in unexpected and very funny ways. His Ted Talk, below, is awkward but very definitely amusing. I love his outlook. I am especially entertained by the pieces in his “Tidying Up Art” project. His organizational efforts are dedicated to showing “how great art can be sensibly organized, neatly arranged, and presented in a space-saving way.” Very clever stuff.
Wehrli claims to make order out of chaos, but what makes it funny is that he’s imposing order where no order is needed.
You can follow the interesting Ursus Wehrli on his website and on Instagram.





















March 13, 2026 at 8:15 am
This was fun. I follow a blogger from Switzerland, and she knows firsthand that the Swiss take their tidying up very seriously!
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March 14, 2026 at 4:40 pm
And they seem to be very good at it!
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March 13, 2026 at 1:04 pm
I am laughing at the final photo because, whenever I hang washing out to dry, I arrange it in colour order. I always have. For me, I think what is interesting about this is that his arrangements are very satisfying to look at because they are so ordered but it also forces us to consider that so much of creativity is actually about chaos. It’s about Bob Ross’ happy accidents and Pollock’s spatters and splashes and finding the working balance between visual chaos and visual appeal.
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March 14, 2026 at 4:42 pm
I love that you do that with your laundry! You’re so right about much of art being about embracing the chaos, and I’m all for that. But it’s a nice break to have something to consider that’s so ordered. It’s like a little mental vacation.
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