Contextual art (art of place) is a direction in which, when creating a work of art, the peculiarity of the context and place is taken into account or is considered as a way of changing the space in which it is located. An important feature is the loss of part of the meaning and meaning of the work if it is removed from the place for which it was created. Often the same features are important for the directions: public art (art in an urban environment), installation and land art.

The direction itself gained its distribution in the sixties and this is due to the struggle against modernist trends and new concepts of the modern artistic environment. According to them, art should not be focused only on a privileged circle of viewers and exist exclusively in the museum space, and therefore be an object of the market. Creativity has gone beyond the traditional presentation inside galleries, to appear in various forms on the streets or inside the natural environment for the unprepared public. The artists emphasized the object (which cannot be transported) in a unique context of depth, length, weight, height, shape, walls, temperature of the place.