The article deals with the comparison between two artists who created some of their pieces in a so-called Minimal Art and both in an exterior city public space. The choice of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt is linked by those objects done in a European city, as there is not that much Minimal Art in public space by American artists done outside galleries throughout Europe. Two chosen objects serve for comparison regarding colors and spatial relations to the existing build environment. The paper balances between architecture and fine art oeuvre. Donal Judd´s Stage Set object standing in Vienna, forming an open space bellow the frame structure made from colorful plates, letting people walk below and through the object, which touches the plot only by a few slim columns joined to the ground. Sol LeWitt´s Black Form - Dedicated to the Missing Jews surrounds the whole footprint, which means that people must walk around the artwork shaped as cubic geometrical solid made from smaller blocks, clearly defining the spot by its black volume. Both artworks were located firstly on the different sites and after a while they were moved to the other places, each for varied reasons. Comparing those two works of fine art might bring a theme of a build structure permeability and the matter of defining a parcel by the solid, fulfilled volume or void, mostly vacant arrangement of material. In this case a paper explores some of the architectural aspects of those minimal art pieces in public space and brings the focus on using colors by minimalists in fine art as well as in a built architectural structure, from interior to the urban fabric.
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