Works of art that involve pills or capsules:
- Martin Kippenberger, Jetzt gehe Ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen Wirken bald (Now I am going into the birch wood, my pills will soon start doing me good) (1991)
- General Idea, Playing Doctor (1993), One Day of AZT, One Year of AZT (1991)
- Stephen J. Shanabrook, Hopping Hills, the Pharmaceutical Landscape (2009): sculptures made out of melted plastic pill vials.
- Damien Hirst, Six Pills (Large) (2005), Pharmacy Wallpaper (2004)
- Kelly Reemtsen, Individual Pills (2011)
- Hannah Collins, Pills (2003)
- Desire Obtain Cherish, Marilyn Vanity fair Red (2011): 3000 pills encased in plexiglass, museum frame
- Chelsea Guerdat, Pills (1997)
- Chu Yun, XX (2006): The Chinese artist installs a white bed in a gallery or museum space. Paid volunteers ingest a sleeping aid and sleep in a bed for a consigned period of time.
- Jusine Cooper, HAVIDOL® (2007)