Olafur Eliasson

Light ArtSculptureObject & Accessory

2 Aug

Written By Jules Richardson

Location

Berlin, Germany

Mediums

Paint, Driftwood, Stainless Steel, Glass, LEDs, Aluminum, Scaffolding, Light

Artist Info

Eliasson has also produced numerous projects in public space. Green river was carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001. Eliasson designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 together with architect Kjetil Thorsen for London’s Kensington Gardens. The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, were installed along the city’s waterfronts in 2008. Your rainbow panorama, a circular coloured-glass walkway atop ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, opened in 2011. Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, 2011, for which Eliasson created the facades in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, won the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013. For Ice Watch, Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing brought free-floating icebergs from a fjord outside Nuuk, Greenland, to public squares in European cities (Copenhagen, 2014; Paris, 2015; and London, 2018) to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Fjordenhus in Vejle, Denmark, the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and the architectural team at Studio Olafur Eliasson, was completed in June 2018. On the occasion of the 2020 German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Eliasson created Earth Speakr together with children around the world and with support from the German Federal Foreign Office; the global artwork invites kids to speak up for the planet. In 2022, Eliasson opened سفر الظلال في بحر النهار (Shadows travelling on the sea of the day), a cluster of large-scale site-specific mirror pavilions in the Qatari desert outside Doha.

- olafureliasson.net