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Nuclear Football (2022)
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Nic Pehkonen, Nuclear Football, 2022 [Custom printed training football(s)].

Nuclear Football is a both an artwork and non-artwork, functioning as a metaphor for the physical manifestations and management of human generated radioactive waste as well as being a football. It is intentionally nomadic and designed to operate as an object of engagement within both art and non-art environments to stimulate conversation around our still unfolding legacy of nuclear leftovers. The popularity of football is arguably global at every level of society whereas living and working in the proximity of radioactive waste is less so.

EDF Energy Games (2023).

44AD Gallery, Bath, UK (2023).

Out and about around Zwickau, Germany. [Image credit: Carlo Dietl].

Visiting an exhibition of the Wismut art collection in Zwickau, 2025. [Image credit: Carlo Dietl].

Deflated but not disheartened on a desk in France, 2025. [Image Credit: Claudio Pescatore].

Information last updated: Sat 22 Nov 2025

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