Stefan Brüggemann employs language and the conventions of conceptual art to create contradictory works that question the purpose and function of art. Brüggemann’s Conceptual Decoration Silver and Black Wallpaper might be understood within the legacy of or as a reaction to Mexican Muralism given its engagement with the public landscape, monumental scale and institutional placement. The artist displaces the social role of public murals that were intended as unifying symbols of national identity by employing text and repetition. The irony in the work asks if anything on the museum wall may become decorative.