Development of a Bottle in Space (Italian: Sviluppo di una bottiglia nello spazio) is a bronze futurist sculpture by Umberto Boccioni.

Consistent with many of themes in Boccioni’s manifesto, the work of art highlights the artist’s first successful attempt at creating a sculpture that both molds and encloses space within itself.

The subject matter of Boccioni’s work, a deconstructed glass bottle, fits into the framework of futurism, a movement largely obsessed with recent technological innovations.

[6] A year later Boccioni would take his initial sketch and use it as the basis to produce the work’s recognizable form as a bronze sculpture.

Once exhibited at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915), Development of a Bottle in Space, has since become part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

She refers to the sculpture’s base as a “concave shape with a simple unbroken profile,” a description that supports Boccioni’s theory of a center within the object itself.