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Abstract Contemporary art is aesthetically very attentive to subjects of different nature. We can watch this aesthetic attention both in following the ways of traditional genres and in discovering some new ways to express human meanings of things. Since times when ready-made objects were fully institutionalized as creations of art traditional and newly discovered modes of creativity in relation to things were set as equal within the artworld. Painting and graphics are dealing with different surfaces creating their new visual qualities with lines and colours, sculpture is doing the same with volume, ready-mades and installations are doing the same changing regimes of human contacts with classes of artifacts. When mixed and combined in the whole of contemporary art as aesthetic experience this relation to subjects turns reflection on subiectum esse, the only reality of actual existence possible to be ruled by a human subject. Subjective reality of artifacts turns the analogue of subjective reality of a human being that contemplates subjective mode of existence in its ontological qualities compared with mentally revealed concepts and signs dealing with being itself, esse tantum. This presentation is dedicated to limits ad unlimitedness of possible meanings of subjects in contemporary art. Key words actual being, actual existence, subjects, artifacts, creations of art, meaning of subjects, contemporary art, aesthetic meanings of things.