:Olafur Eliasson

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Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967 to Elías Hjörleifsson and Ingibjörg Olafsdottir.Cynthia Zarin (November 13, 2006), [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/13/seeing-things-2 Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson] The New Yorker. His parents had emigrated to Copenhagen from Iceland in 1966, his father to find work as a cook and his mother as a seamstress. He was 8 when his parents separated.Dorothy Spears (September 2, 2007), [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/arts/design/02spea.html Thinking Glacially, Acting Artfully] New York Times. He lived with his mother and his stepfather, a stockbroker. His father, then an artist, moved back to Iceland, where their family spent summers and holidays.

At 15, Olafur had his first solo show where he exhibited landscape drawings and gouaches at a small alternative gallery in Denmark. However, Olafur considered his "break-dancing" during the mid-1980s to be his first artworks.Joachim Bessing, [http://032c.com/2004/experiencing-space-olafur-eliasson/ "Experiencing Space,"] 032c issue 8 (Winter 2004/05). With two school friends, he formed a group that called themselves the Harlem Gun Crew and with whom he performed at clubs and dance halls for four years, eventually winning the Scandinavian championship.

Olafur studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995. In 1990, when he was awarded a travel budget by the Royal Danish Academy, Olafur went to New York where he started working as a studio assistant for artist Christian Eckart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and reading texts on phenomenology and Gestalt psychology.Christopher Bagley (July 2007), [http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2007/07/olafur_eliasson/ From the Archives: Olafur Twist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425012130/http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/art-and-design/2007/07/olafur_eliasson/ |date=2016-04-25 }} W.

Olafur received his degree from the academy in 1995, after having moved in 1993 to Cologne for a year, and then to Berlin, where he has since maintained a studio.Peter Schjeldahl (28 April 2008), [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/04/28/080428craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz1FQkGNHqF Uncluttered. An Olafur Eliasson retrospective.] The New Yorker. First located in a three-story former train depot right next door to the Hamburger Bahnhof, the studio moved to a former brewery in Prenzlauer Berg in 2008.

In 1996, Olafur started working with Einar Thorsteinn, an architect and geometry expert 25 years his senior as well as a former friend of Buckminster Fuller.Michael Kimmelman (March 21, 2004), [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/art-the-sun-sets-at-the-tate-modern.html?ref=olafureliasson&pagewanted=2 The Sun Sets at the Tate Modern] New York Times. The first piece they created called 8900054, was a stainless-steel dome {{convert|30|ft|m}} wide and {{convert|7|ft|m}} high, designed to be seen as if it were growing from the ground. Though the effect is an illusion, the mind has a hard time believing that the structure is not part of a much grander one developing from deep below the surface. Thorsteinn's knowledge of geometry and space has been integrated into Olafur's artistic production, often seen in his geometric lamp works as well as his pavilions, tunnels and camera obscura projects.{{citation | title=Let There Be Light | author=Marc Spiegler | work=Artinfo | publisher=BLOUINARTINFO | date= 6 September 2007 | url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/25581/let-there-be-light/| access-date=23 April 2008 }}

For many projects, the artist works collaboratively with specialists in various fields, among them the architects Thorsteinn and Sebastian Behmann (both of whom have been frequent collaborators, Behmann working on the Kirk Kapital headquarters on Vejle Fjord in Denmark, completed in 2018),{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/08/disorientating-and-playful-eliassons-first-building-grows-from-danish-fjord|first=Kate|last=Connolly|title=The art of building: Eliasson goes from Tate sun to Danish fjord|date=2018-06-09|work=The Guardian|location=London|page=41}} author Svend Åge Madsen (The Blind Pavilion), landscape architect Gunther Vogt (The Mediated Motion), architecture theorist Cedric Price (Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même), and architect Kjetil Thorsen (Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, 2007).{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Studio Olafur Eliasson, which the artist founded as a "laboratory for spatial research", employs a team of architects, engineers, craftsmen, and assistants (some 30 members as of 2008) who work together to conceive and construct artworks such as installations and sculptures, as well as large-scale projects and commissions.City of New York (January 15, 2008). "[http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/014-08/mayor-bloomberg-public-art-fund-major-public-art-project-artist-olafur-eliasson Mayor Bloomberg and Public Art Fund Announce Major Public Art Project by Artist Olafur Eliasson]" [press release], section "About the Artist". Retrieved 2016-07-16. Olafur is influenced by Bruce Nauman, as well as James Turrell and Robert Irwin.{{Cite news|last=Kimmelman|first=Michael|date=2004-03-21|title=ART; The Sun Sets at the Tate Modern|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/art-the-sun-sets-at-the-tate-modern.html|access-date=2021-07-13|issn=0362-4331}}

As professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Olafur Eliasson founded the Institute for Spatial Experiments (Institut für Raumexperimente, IfREX), which opened within his studio building in April 2009. Huffington Post named Olafur one of "18 green artists who are making climate change and conservation a priority."{{Cite web|last=Brooks|first=Katherine|date=2014-07-15|title=18 Green Artists Who Are Making Climate Change A Priority|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/environmental-art_n_5585288|access-date=2021-10-05|website=HuffPost|language=en}}

Nadine Wojcik, after attending the In real life exhibition in 2019, dubbed Beauty (1993) a "simple yet powerful water installation that evokes a rainbow via spotlights.” Anna Souter called the work "a reminder of the intensely fragile beauty of the natural world and its elements. [...] it’s simply and superbly beautiful".{{Cite web|last=Souter|first=Anna|date=2019-08-05|title=The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson|url=http://hyperallergic.com/510475/olafur-eliasson-in-real-life/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US}}

Early works by Olafur consist of oscillating electric fans hanging from the ceiling. Ventilator (1997) swings back and forth and around, rotating on its axis.{{Cite web|last=Weinberg|first=Lauren|date=2009-05-10|title=Olafur Eliasson at Museum of Contemporary Art {{!}} Art review|url=https://www.timeout.com/chicago/art/olafur-eliasson-at-museum-of-contemporary-art-art-review|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Time Out Chicago|language=en}} Quadrible light ventilator mobile (2002–2007) is a rotating electrically powered mobile comprising a searchlight and four fans blowing air around the exhibition room and scanning it with the light cone.[http://www.arken.dk/content/us/art/arkens_collection/installation_and_media_art/olafur_eliasson Olafur Eliasson: Quadrible light ventilator mobile (2002–07)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712123241/http://www.arken.dk/content/us/art/arkens_collection/installation_and_media_art/olafur_eliasson |date=2011-07-12 }} Arken Museum of Modern Art. In a 2008 review of the Take Your Time retrospective (at the Museum of Modern Art), Peter Schjeldahl dubbed Ventilator "a witty finesse of the MOMA atrium’s space-splurging grandiosity"

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The weather project was installed at the London's Tate Modern in 2003 as part of the popular Unilever series. The installation filled the open space of the gallery's Turbine Hall.

Olafur used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a semicircular disc (reflected by the ceiling mirror to appear circular){{Cite web|url=http://telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3606332/A-terrifying-beauty.html|title = A terrifying beauty| date=12 November 2003 }} made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light symbolizing the sun.{{cite book|last1=Holzwarth|first1=Hans W.|title=100 Contemporary Artists A-Z|date=2009|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|isbn=978-3-8365-1490-3|page=156|edition=Taschen's 25th anniversary special}} Many visitors responded to this exhibition by lying on their backs and waving their hands and legs. Art critic Brian O'Doherty described this as viewers "intoxicated with their own narcissism as they ponder themselves elevated into the sky.""Public Spectacle: Mark Godfrey and Rosie Bennett talk to Brian O'Doherty," Frieze, issue 80, Jan./Feb. 2004, p. 56.

The Weather Project was highly successful. Open for six months, the work reportedly attracted two million visitors, many of whom were repeat visitors. O'Doherty was positive about the piece when talking to Frieze magazine in 2003, saying that it was "the first time I've seen the enormously dismal space—like a coffin for a giant—socialized in an effective way." The Telegraph's Richard Dorment praised its "beauty and power".{{Cite news|last=Dorment|first=Richard|date=2003-11-12|title=A terrifying beauty|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3606332/A-terrifying-beauty.html|access-date=2021-07-13}} It remains his most famous work and ranked 11th in a poll by The Guardian of the best art since 2000, with Jonathan Jones describing Olafur as "one of the century’s most significant artists.".{{Cite web|last1=Searle|first1=Adrian|last2=Jones|first2=Jonathan|last3=O'Hagan|first3=Sean|last4=Judah|first4=Hettie|date=2019-09-17|title=The best art of the 21st century|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/17/the-best-visual-art-of-the-21st-century|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Guardian|language=en}} The Weather Project attempted to give viewers the impression that they were near the sun inside the clouds, but in actuality, a large semicircle was suspended from a mirror ceiling, giving the impression that the reflection was a full circle. The mirrors on the ceiling produced the image of the space below that was visible. The audience completed the effect by frequently being observed lying down on their backs, staring at the ceiling, and making various motions to observe their reflections. This was done by both adults and children.{{Cite web |title=Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project – Everything you should know |url=https://publicdelivery.org/olafur-eliasson-the-weather-project/#About_the_Weather_Project |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=publicdelivery.org}}

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Olafur has been developing various experiments with atmospheric density in exhibition spaces. In Room For One Colour (1998), a corridor lit by low pressure sodium lamps, the participants find themselves in a room filled with monochromatic yellow light which affects their perception of colours. Another installation, 360 degrees Room For All Colours (2002), is a round light-sculpture where participants lose their sense of space and perspective, and experience being subsumed by an intense light.[http://afmuseet.no/?exhibition_id=1&language=en Ólafur Eliasson: Colour memory and other informal shadows, January 24 – May 2, 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405073625/http://afmuseet.no/?exhibition_id=1&language=en |date=April 5, 2012 }} Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art. Olafur's later installation Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger) (2010), commissioned by the Arken Museum of Modern Art, is a 90-metre-long tunnel. Entering the tunnel, the visitor is surrounded by dense fog. With visibility at just 1.5 metres, museumgoers have to use senses other than sight to orient themselves in relation to their surroundings.[http://www.arken.dk/content/us/press/news/new_olafur_eliasson_installation_at_arken Olafur Eliasson – Din blinde passager at ARKEN] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712044722/http://www.arken.dk/content/us/press/news/new_olafur_eliasson_installation_at_arken |date=2011-07-12 }} Arken Museum of Modern Art. After attending the 2019 In real life exhibition, Souter deemed Your blind passenger one of Olafur's finest works, reporting that she felt "alone in the universe. [...] I thought I could see my own irises, flashing as a ring of blue in front of me, and I could hear my own heartbeat in my ears." For Feelings are facts, the first time Olafur has worked with Chinese architect Yansong Ma as well as his first exhibition in China, Olafur introduces condensed banks of artificially produced fog into the gallery of Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. Hundreds of fluorescent lights are installed in the ceiling as a grid of red, green, and blue zones.

In 1998, Olafur discovered that uranin, a readily available nontoxic powder used to trace leaks in plumbing systems, could dye entire rivers a sickly fluorescent green. Olafur conducted a test run in the Spree River during the 1998 Berlin Biennale, scattering a handful of powder from a bridge near Museum Island. He began introducing the environmentally safe dye to rivers in Moss, Norway (1998), Bremen (1998), Los Angeles (1999), Stockholm (2000) and Tokyo (2001) — always without advance warning. He first achieved international prominence with Green river, which initially made Stockholm pedestrians concerned that the city's water had been tainted.{{Cite web|date=2021-02-11|title=Why did Olafur Eliasson turn these rivers green? – Public Delivery|url=https://publicdelivery.org/olafur-eliasson-green-river/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Public Delivery}}

At Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in 2014–2015, Olafur created a riverbed installation. He compiled natural rocks, dirt, and water to transform the gallery space into a landscape and titled the piece, "Riverbed". Olafur captures physical phenomena in a way that appears both real and slightly artificial, while contained in a constructed space that invites viewers to participate. Riverbed becomes an immersive experience, using all five senses, in which the individuals can either follow or curiously step away from. Freedom exists in both of these actions, allowing the participant to discover a paradox or enter a void, questioning their true freedom and will happening within a designed system.

In a 2014 review of the exhibition, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner said that Olafur "cuts us off from the surroundings and imports a different and rough beauty"; they described the view of the stony landscape as "meticulously framed". However, they also speculated that Olafur aimed to make viewers see Louisiana differently and failed, creating a work that differs little from Louisiana: "The question about [...] how it really made us see things in new ways is still unanswered."{{Cite web|last1=Riesto|first1=Svava|last2=Steiner|first2=Henriette|date=2014-09-17|title=Riverbed – Olafur Eliasson|url=https://www.toposmagazine.com/riverbed-olafur-eliasson-tyranny-place/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Topos|language=en-US}}

In regular intervals, Olafur presents grids of various color photographs, all taken in Iceland. Each group of images focuses on a single subject: volcanoes, hot springs and huts isolated in the wilderness.Roberta Smith (November 15, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/olafur-eliasson-volcanoes-and-shelters.html Art in Review; Olafur Eliasson: ‘Volcanoes and shelters’] New York Times. In his very first series he attempted to shoot all of Iceland's bridges. A later series from 1996 documented the aftermath of a volcanic eruption under the Vatnajökull. Often these photographs are shot from the air, in a small rented plane traditionally used by mapmakers. Arranged in a grid, the photographs recall the repetitive images of the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher.

This project, a light installation commissioned for the Venice Biennale by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in collaboration with British architect David Adjaye, was shown from 1 August to 31 October 2005 on the island of San Lazzaro in the lagoon near Venice, Italy. A temporary pavilion was constructed on the grounds of the monastery to house the exhibit, consisting of a square room painted black with one source of illumination–a thin, continuous line of light set into all four walls of the room at the viewers eye-level, serving as a horizontal division between above and below.{{cite web | last=Griffiths | first=Words Alyn | title=Your black horizon: an installation by Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye | website=Port Magazine | date=14 August 2012 | url=https://www.port-magazine.com/design/your-black-horizon-an-installation-by-olafur-eliasson-and-david-adjaye/ | access-date=17 January 2024}} In 2007, the pavilion was relocated to the island of Lopud, Croatia near the city of Dubrovnik. Since then, it has on several occasions reopened to the public.{{cite web | last=Smilović | first=Ivana | title=Art Pavilion 'Your Black Horizon' to open its doors on Lopud again | website=The Dubrovnik Times | date=17 May 2018 | url=https://www.thedubrovniktimes.com/news/dubrovnik/item/4529-art-pavilion-your-black-horizon-to-open-its-doors-on-lopud-again | access-date=17 January 2024}}{{cite web | title=Umjetnički paviljon "Your Black Horizon" ponovo otvoren za posjetitelje – Pogledaj.to | website=Pogledaj.to| date=10 May 2016 | url=https://pogledaj.to/arhitektura/umjetnicki-paviljon-your-black-horizon-ponovo-otvoren-za-posjetitelje/ | language=hr | access-date=17 January 2024}}{{cite web | title=Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye – Your black horizon Art Pavilion, August - October 2021| website=Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary | url=https://tba21.org/lopud | access-date=17 January 2024}}

Olafur was commissioned by BMW in 2007 to create the sixteenth art car for the BMW Art Car Project. Based on the hydrogen-powered BMW H2R concept vehicle, Olafur and his team removed the automobile's alloy body and instead replaced it with a new interlocking framework of reflective steel bars and mesh. Layers of ice were created by spraying approximately 530 gallons of water during a period of several days upon the structure. On display, the frozen sculpture is glowing from within. Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project was on special display in a temperature controlled room at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 2007 to 2008[https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/your-tempo/ Olafur Eliasson: Your Tempo, September 8, 2007 – January 13, 2008] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. and at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, in 2008.

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Olafur was commissioned by The Public Art Fund to create four man-made waterfalls, called The New York City Waterfalls, ranging in a height from 90 to 120 ft., in New York Harbor. The installation ran from 26 June through 13 October 2008. At $15.5 million, it was the most expensive public arts project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of The Gates in Central Park.{{Cite web|last=Dobnik|first=Verena|date=2008-06-21|title=NYC getting Waterfalls off shore of Manhattan|url=https://www.statesboroherald.com/nation/national/nyc-getting-waterfalls-off-shore-of-manhattan/|access-date=2021-06-24|website=Statesboro Herald|agency=Associated Press}}

Dedicated on 15 May 2009, this permanent sculpture stands at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The installation is based on the original Icelandic parliament, Althingi, one of the world's earliest democratic forums. The artist envisions the project as a place where students and visitors can gather to relax, discuss ideas, or have an argument. The parliament of reality emphasizes that negotiation should be the core of any educational scheme. The man-made island is surrounded by a 30-foot circular lake, 24 trees, and wild grasses. The {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=mid|-diameter}} island is composed of a cut-bluestone, compass-like floor pattern (based upon meridian lines and navigational charts), on top of which 30 river-washed boulders create an outdoor seating area for students and the public to gather. The island is reached by a 20-foot-long stainless steel lattice-canopied bridge, creating the effect that visitors are entering a stage or outdoor forum. Frogs gather in this wiry mesh at night, creating an enjoyable symphony.

For his ongoing series of Colour experiment paintings – which began in 2009 – Olafur started analyzing pigments, paint production and application of colour in order to mix paint in the exact colour for each nanometre of the visible light spectrum. This body of work features color wheels that are created in a variety of spectrums. He also explores the work of Caspar David Friedrich.{{Cite web |last=Amadour |first=Ricky |date=2022-03-08 |title=Olafur Eliasson: Your light spectrum and presence |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2022/03/artseen/Olafur-Eliasson-Your-light-spectrum-and-presence |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en-US}} In 2014, Olafur analyzed seven paintings by J. M. W. Turner to create Turner colour experiments, which isolate and record Turner's use of light and colour.[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/olafur-eliasson-turner-colour-experiments Olafur Eliasson: Turner colour experiments, 26 August 2014 – 25 January 2015] Tate Britain, London.

In April 2023, his artwork Colour experiment no. 114 was used as the artwork for the Peter Gabriel song "i/o", from the forthcoming album of the same name.

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Olafur designed the facade of Harpa, Reykjavík's new concert hall and conference centre which was completed in 2011. In close collaboration with his studio team and Henning Larsen Architects, the designers of the building, Olafur has designed a unique facade consisting of large quasi bricks, a stackable twelve sided module in steel and glass. The facade will reflect the city life and the different light composed by the movements of the sun and varying weather. During the night the glass bricks are lit up by different colored LED lights. The building was opened on 13 May 2011, and garnered acclaim.{{Cite web|last=Prisco|first=Jacopo|date=2018-11-01|title=Olafur Eliasson: The man who creates bold new worlds to remind us we only have one|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/olafur-eliasson-experience-phaidon/index.html|access-date=2021-07-13|website=CNN|language=en}}

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Olafur's artwork Your rainbow panorama consists of a circular, {{convert|150|m|ft}} long and {{convert|3|m|ft}} wide corridor made of glass in every color of the spectrum. It has a diameter of {{convert|52|m|ft}} and is mounted on {{convert|3.5|m|ft}} high columns on top of the roof of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus. It opened in May 2011. Visitors can walk through the corridor and have a panoramic view of the city.{{cite web|url=http://en.aros.dk/the-collection/your-rainbow-panorama/|title=Your rainbow panorama|access-date=2 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728195318/http://en.aros.dk/the-collection/your-rainbow-panorama/|archive-date=28 July 2014|url-status=dead}}

Construction cost 60 million Danish kroner and was funded by the Realdania foundation.{{cite web|url=http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Eliassons-room-with-a-rainbow-view-brings-record-visitors-to-Aros/30238|title=Eliasson's room with a rainbow view brings record visitors to Aros|date=28 August 2013|first=Hanne Cecilie|last=Gulstad|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831143040/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Eliassons-room-with-a-rainbow-view-brings-record-visitors-to-Aros/30238|archive-date=31 August 2013}}

Olafur's idea was chosen in 2007 among five other proposals in a bidding process by a panel of judges. At night the artwork is lit from the inside by spotlights in the floor.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}

In November 2013, at the Falling Walls Conference, Olafur presented with Ai Weiwei their collaboration Moon, an open digital platform that allows users to draw on a replica of the moon via their web browser. Eliasson presented the platform as "a sphere on which you can make a mark. Not just to make a mark, but make a mark that matters to you. Make your wish, make your dream. Do something." Accessible to anyone, it attracted over 35,000 participants within the first six weeks.{{cite web | last=Cembalest | first=Robin | title=How Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson Got 35,000 People to Draw on the Moon | website=ARTnews.com | date=19 December 2013 | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/how-ai-weiwei-and-olafur-eliasson-got-35000-people-to-draw-on-the-moon-2364/ | access-date=18 January 2024}}{{cite web | last=Feinstein | first=Laura | title=Make Your Mark On The Moon With Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei | website=VICE | date=19 February 2014 | url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/make-your-mark-on-the-moon-with-olafur-eliasson-and-ai-weiwei/ | access-date=18 January 2024}}

From December 17, 2014, to February 23, 2015, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. The artworks appear as a sequence of events along a journey. Moving through passageways and expansive installations, visitors become part of a choreography of darkness, light, geometry, and reflections. Along the way, optical devices, models, and a meteorite reflect Olafur's on-going investigations into the mechanisms of perception and the construction of space.

The relation between bodily reaction and art as well as the raising of awareness of climate change is explored in Ice Watch (2014-2018). With the installation of enormous ice blocks in various places of the world (Copenhagen in 2014, Paris in 2015 and London in 2018), Olafur responds to major Climate Change conferences and reports. With his project beginning in 2014, he transports twelve ice-blocks from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland to the streets of Copenhagen. The ice-blocks are placed in the shape of a circle. Each ice block weighs between 1.5 and 5 tonnes.{{Cite web|title=Ice Watch • Artwork • Studio Olafur Eliasson|url=https://olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK109190/ice-watch|access-date=2021-03-26|website=olafureliasson.net}}{{Cite journal|last=Hornby|first=Louise|date=2017|title=Appropriating the Weather: Olafur Eliasson and Climate Control|url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/9/1/60/8250/Appropriating-the-WeatherOlafur-Eliasson-and|journal=Environmental Humanities|volume=9|issue=1|pages=60–83|doi=10.1215/22011919-3829136|doi-access=free}} In November 2015, Olafur together with geologist Minik Rosing again transported twelve enormous blocks of ice from Greenland to Place du Panthéon in Paris. The installation was timed with the UN Climate Change Conference that was held in Paris. The installation was once again repeated in 2018, when Olafur divided a total of thirty ice-blocks between two locations in London: 24 blocks at the banks of the Tate Modern museum, and 6 blocks before the Bloomberg headquarters.

Timothy Morton lists Ice Watch as an example of how art can help humans understand their relationship with nonhumans amidst ecological crisis, arguing that it "seriously stretched or went beyond prefabricated concepts, in a friendly and simple, yet deep way". Louise Hornby argued that Ice Watch has "poignancy" but also “funnels time and melting ice through the spectator’s own experience [...] The imperative to watch asserts the central agency of the experiencing subject", which is unfitting because the "glaciers will melt, whether or not we see them”.

Commissioned by Mei and Allan Warburg for the Donum Estate

winery in Sonoma, California, in 2019, the Vertical Panorama Pavilion is built to accommodate up to 12 guests and inspired by the history of circular calendars. The pavilion's roof features 832 laminated panels of recycled glass in 24 colors and is supported by 12 stainless-steel columns. From afar, only the translucent rainbow glass tiled canopy can be seen.Stephanie Sporn (2 August 2022), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/02/olafur-eliasson-sebastian-behmann-tasting-pavilion-donum-estate-california Olafur Eliasson unveils a prismatic tasting pavilion at a California winery] The Art Newspaper.

In 2005–2007, Olafur and classical violin maker Hans Jóhannsson completed work on the development of a new instrument, with the objective to reinterpret the traditions of 17th- and 18th-century violin making using today's technology and a contemporary visual aesthetic.Alice Rawsthorn (December 9, 2007), [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09nextviolin.html Next Violin, The] New York Times Magazine.

Commissioned by Louis Vuitton in 2006, lamps titled Eye See You were installed in the Christmas windows of Louis Vuitton stores; a lamp titled You See Me went on permanent display at Louis Vuitton Fifth Avenue, New York.{{citation | title= Eliasson's "Eyes" Draw Stares on NY's Fifth Avenue| author=Jacquelyn Lewis | publisher=BLOUINARTINFO | date= 8 May 2007 | url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/24876/eliassons-eyes-draw-stares-on-nys-fifth-avenue/ | access-date=23 April 2008 }} Each deliberately low-tech apparatus, of which there are about 400, is composed of a monofrequency light source and a parabolic mirror.Alix Browne (November 5, 2006), [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05matter.html An I for an Eye] New York Times Magazine. All fees from the project were donated to 121Ethiopia.org, a charitable foundation initially established by Olafur and his wife to renovate an orphanage. Cynthia Zarin of The New Yorker described Your wave is (2006) as a "major work".

In 2007, Olafur developed the stage design for Phaedra, an opera production at the Berlin State Opera.

In a 2008 review of the Take Your Time retrospective (at the Museum of Modern Art), Peter Schjeldahl described Olafur as far superior to other "crowd-pleasing installational artists" of his generation; he wrote that the retrospective has some filler but also "lovely, subtly disorienting effects". He praised the artist as avoiding excessive political activism and Matthew Barney's "implications of mystical portent". Schjeldahl interpreted the artist as raising awareness "of the neurological susceptibilities that condition all of what we see and may think we know.” Reviewing the same retrospective, Lauren Weinberg of Time Out praised Beauty (1993); the "discomfiting" works like 1997's Room for one colour and Ventilator; and the works involving the sense of smell, such as Moss wall (1994) and Soil quasi bricks (2003). She argued that Moss wall "evokes Scandinavia more powerfully than Eliasson’s dozens of photographs of rivers, caves and other natural features of Iceland, which fill one room of the show."

His seventh solo exhibition, Volcanos and shelters at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, is about nature and specifically Iceland. In The New York Times, Roberta Smith praised it as his "most gimmick-free [exhibition] in a while. The refreshing back-to-basics mood is a welcome break from the immersive complexities of his recent perception-altering environments.”

Along with James Corner's landscape architecture firm Field Operations and architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Olafur was part of the design team for New York's High Line park.[http://www.thehighline.org/design/design-team-selection/field-operations-diller-scofidio-renfro Design Team] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307172250/http://www.thehighline.org/design/design-team-selection/field-operations-diller-scofidio-renfro |date=2011-03-07 }} High Line. Olafur was originally supposed to create an outdoor-based artwork for the 2012 Summer Olympics; however, his proposed £1 million ($1.6 million) project Take A Deep Breath – which involved recording people breathingRoslyn Sulcas (July 12, 2012), [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/olafur-elaisson-brings-sunlight-back-to-tate-modern/ Olafur Eliasson Brings Sunlight Back to Tate Modern] New York Times. – was rejected due to funding problems.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17674481 Olafur Eliasson art project rejected by Olympics bosses] BBC, 11 April 2012.

In 2012 Olafur and engineer Frederik Ottesen founded Little Sun, a company that produces solar powered LED lamps.{{cite web

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In 2014 it was announced that his work Kissing Earth, representing two globes, was to be placed in front of the newly built Rotterdam Centraal train station in the Netherlands. After protests by Rotterdam residents and concerns over the expected costs the impopular project was cancelled in 2016. The square in front of the station remained empty.[https://www.ad.nl/rotterdam/rotterdam-haalt-streep-door-gele-ballen-op-stationsplein~a6570c06/ Algemeen Dagblad 29-6-2016]; [https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/143591/Wereldbollen-Rotterdam-Centraal-gaan-niet-door RTV Rijnmond, 'Wereldbollen Rotterdam Centraal gaan niet door']

It was reported in October 2019 that Olafur was commissioned by the German government to create a "pan-European work of art" for the German European Council presidency in the second half of 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/germany-asks-olafur-eliasson-to-create-pan-european-work-of-art-for-eu-presidency|title=Olafur Eliasson will create 'pan-European' work of art for Germany's EU presidency next year|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|date=21 October 2019|access-date=2019-10-21}}

Laura Cumming awarded the In real life survey four out of five stars, especially praising Your blind passenger. She found some of the art (like the ice boulders from Greenland) didactic but still wrote, "Each piece conveys the strange extremes of Iceland with all the condensed power of a sonnet".{{Cite web|last=Cumming|first=Laura|date=2019-07-14|title=Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life; Takis – review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/14/olafur-eliasson-in-real-life-takis-review|access-date=2021-07-13|website=The Guardian|language=en}} Anna Souter, however, expressed a lukewarm view of the In real life exhibition in Hyperallergic, writing that Room for one colour was more powerful at London's National Gallery than at Tate Modern and that Your uncertain shadow (colour) (2010) "feels like little more than a clever, visual trick." She also reported that some in the art world find Olafur's work unsettling because "[m]ost people like Olafur Eliasson, and many curators and critics don’t like it when most people like the same things they do."

Olafur's AR Wunderkammer project, available through an app, is being used to place objects in the user's environment. These objects include burning suns, extraterrestrial rocks, and rare animals.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2020/05/14/olafur-eliasson-augmented-reality-wunderkammer/|title=Olafur Eliasson creates augmented-reality cabinet of curiosities|date=14 May 2020|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-17}}

According to The Guardian, the works by Olafur that he considers highlights are Five Dimensional Pavilion (1998), Model room (2003), Sphere (2003), Your Invisible House (2003), The Parliament of Reality (2006–09), the facades of Harpa (2005–11), Your Rainbow Panorama (2006-2011), the 2007 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Colour activity house (2010), The Triangular Sky (2013), and Cirkelbroen (2015).{{Cite news|date=2016-04-12|title=Islands and origami: Olafur Eliasson on his greatest hits – in pictures|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/apr/12/islands-and-origami-olafur-eliasson-on-his-greatest-hits-in-pictures|access-date=2021-07-13|issn=0261-3077}} He deemed Beauty (1993) and The presence of absence pavilion (2019) the highlights of the 2019–2020 In real life exhibition.{{Cite web|last=Beautyman|first=Mairi|date=2019-09-10|title=10 Questions With... Olafur Eliasson|url=https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/16931-10-questions-with-olafur-eliasson/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=Interior Design|language=en-us}}

Olafur had his first solo show was with Nicolaus Schafhausen in Cologne in 1993, before moving to Berlin in 1994. In 1996, Olafur had his first show in the United States at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) organized Olafur's first major survey in the United States Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, from September 2007 to February 2008.{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Current + Upcoming Exhibitions|url=http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pressroom.asp?id=292&do=exhibitions|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127180935/http://www.sfmoma.org/press/pressroom.asp?id=292&do=exhibitions|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 January 2007|date=27 January 2007}} Curated by the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Madeleine Grynsztejn (then Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA), in close collaboration with the artist, the major survey spanned the artist's career from 1993 and 2007. The exhibit included site-specific installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture, photography, and special commissions seen through a succession of interconnected rooms and corridors. The museum's skylight bridge was turned into an installation titled One-way colour tunnel.{{citation | title=Olafur Eliasson | author=Glen Helfand | work=Artinfo | publisher=BLOUINARTINFO | date= 6 September 2007 | url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/25573/olafur-eliasson/| access-date=23 April 2008 }} Following its San Francisco debut, the exhibit embarked on an international tour to the Museum of Modern Art, and P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 2008–2009; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2009–2010.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

He has also had major solo exhibitions at, among others, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, and ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe (2001); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa (2009); the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2010) and the Langen Foundation, Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2015).{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} Olafur has also appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including the São Paulo Biennial and the Istanbul Biennial (1997), Venice Biennale (1999, 2001 and 2005), and the Carnegie International (1999),OPe Palace of Versailles (2016), The Parliament of Possibilities at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (2016-2017).{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

From July 2019 to through to January 2020, Tate Modern showed the exhibition In real life.[https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson Tate Modern]

Until July 2025, Open, held at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary, is Olafur's first major exhibition in Los Angeles which consists of installations of light and geometry including a large mirrored geodesic sphere.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-19 |title=OPEN at MOCA LA. |url=https://theweeklyfootnote.com/2024/09/18/open-at-moca-la/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=The Weekly Footnote |language=en-US}}

Olafur's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Olafur Eliasson|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/olafur-eliasson|website=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum}}
• Centre for International Light Art (CILA), Unna, Germany{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna|url=https://www.lichtkunst-unna.de/en/museum|website=www.lichtkunst-unna.de}}
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Olafur Eliasson|url=https://www.moca.org/artist/olafur-eliasson|website=The Museum of Contemporary Art}}
• Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico{{Cite web |title=The Broken Stone Series |url=https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/fundacion/coleccion/288-serie-las-piedras-rotas |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=Museo Jumex |language=en}}
• Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore{{Cite web |title=Flower observatory - Olafur Eliasson |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/flower-observatory-olafur-eliasson/qwG2bx4QABQ8jA?hl=en |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}
• SFMOMA, San Francisco{{Cite web |title=Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/olafur-eliasson-one-way-colour-tunnel/ |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}

The Spiral Pavilion, conceived in 1999 for the Venice Biennale and today on display at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, brought Olafur Eliasson the Benesse Prize by the Benesse Corporation.[http://www.kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/index.php?id=50&L=1&cHash=75b1436044 Olafur Eliasson: Spiral Pavilion] Kunsthalle Bielefeld. In 2004, Olafur won the Nykredit Architecture Prize{{cite web|title=Nykredit Architecture Prize|url=http://www.nykredit.dk/omnykredit/info/virksomhed/nykredits-arkitekturpris.xml|work=Nykredit website|publisher=Nykredit Holding A/S|access-date=30 November 2013|location=Copenhagen, Denmark|language=da|year=2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220131650/http://www.nykredit.dk/omnykredit/info/virksomhed/nykredits-arkitekturpris.xml|archive-date=20 February 2010}} and the Eckersberg Medal for painting.{{cite web|url=http://www.akademiraadet.dk/index.php?id=95|title=Tildelinger af medaljer|publisher=Akademiraadet|access-date=25 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202093758/http://www.akademiraadet.dk/index.php?id=95|archive-date=2 February 2015}} The following year he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for sculpture{{cite web| url = http://www.royalcourt.se/download/18.30963a1811be3fda3ab80008195/Prins+Eugen-medaljen+1945-2010.pdf| title = Prins Eugen Medaljen|access-date = 14 February 2015}} and in 2006, the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.bikubenfonden.dk/content/kronprinsparrets-priser-3|title=Kronprinsparrets Priser|publisher=Bikubenfonden|access-date=28 September 2014|language=da|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006143955/http://www.bikubenfonden.dk/content/kronprinsparrets-priser-3|archive-date=6 October 2014}} In 2006, he received the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.[https://www.kiesler.org/en/kiesler-prize-2006 Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Vienna]. Retrieved 11 April 2024. In 2007, he was awarded the first Joan Miró Prize by the Joan Miró Foundation.[http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/exposicio.php?idioma=2&exposicio=915 Olafur Eliasson: The nature of things, June 20 – September 28, 2008] Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, and Centre Cultural Caixa Girona-Fontana d'Or, Girona.

In 2010, Olafur was the recipient of a Quadriga award. He returned his award one year later after it was revealed that Vladimir Putin would be recognized in 2011.Kristen Allen and Josh Ward (July 18, 2011), [http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-world-from-berlin-award-for-putin-was-dilettantish-and-politically-insensitive-a-775103.html The World from Berlin: Award for Putin Was 'Dilettantish and Politically Insensitive'] Der Spiegel. In October 2013, he was honored with the Goslarer Kaiserring.[http://kaiserring.de/traeger/Eliasson/eliasn.html Olafur Eliasson – Kaiserringträger der Stadt Goslar 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005030352/http://www.kaiserring.de/traeger/Eliasson/eliasn.html |date=2013-10-05 }}, kaiserring.de (incl. Press Release, 11 January 2013)[http://www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2013-01/eliasson-kaiserring-goslar Goslarer Kaiserring – Olafur Eliasson geehrt als Künstler auf den Spuren da Vincis''], zeit.de (11 January 2013) That same year, Olafur and Henning Larsen Architects were recipients of the Mies van der Rohe Award for their Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In 2014, Olafur was the recipient of the $100,000 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The prize is considered an investment in the recipient's future creative work, rather than a prize for a particular project or lifetime of achievement. The awardee becomes an artist in residence at MIT, studying and teaching for a period of time.{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/olafur-eliasson-2014-mcdermott-award.html|title=Olafur Eliasson receives 2014 McDermott Award | MIT News Office|date=24 October 2013 |publisher=web.mit.edu|access-date=2014-04-03}}

On the occasion of a state visit to Germany in June 2013, the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, visited Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin.Ingeborg Ruthe (June 25, 2013), [http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/island-in-berlin-olafur-gipfel-auf-dem-pfefferberg,10809150,23512478.html Olafur-Gipfel auf dem Pfefferberg] Berliner Zeitung.

Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz's documentary piece, Domingo,{{cite web|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Domingo: A Karim Aïnouz film on the works of Olafur Eliasson - Videobrasil|url=http://site.videobrasil.org.br/en/news/1795029|website=site.videobrasil.org.br}} shot from his encounter with Olafur during the 17th Videobrasil Festival, had its world premiere at Rio International Film Festival] in 2014,{{cite web|first1=Festival do|last1=Rio|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Domingo|url=http://www.festivaldorio.com.br/en/films/domingo|website=Festival do Rio}} and was released on DVD in 2015.

In 2003, Olafur married the Danish art historian Marianne Krogh Jensen, whom he met when she curated the Danish Pavilion for the 1997 São Paulo Art Biennial. They adopted both their son (in 2003) and their daughter (in 2006) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The family had lived in a house designed by architect Andreas Lauritz ClemmensenJulie L. Mellby (September 2, 2007), [https://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2007/09/your_house_by_olafur_eliasson.html "Your House" by Olafur Eliasson] Princeton University Library. in Hellerup near Copenhagen, but Olafur and Jensen are no longer married. Olafur currently lives and works in Berlin. Olafur speaks Icelandic, Danish, German, and English. He also has a younger half-sister named Victoria Eliasdottir who is a chef.

On 22 September 2019, Olafur was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations Development Programme "to advocate for urgent action on climate change and sustainable development goals."{{Cite web|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/olafur-eliasson-appointed-un-goodwill-ambassador-for-climate|title=Olafur Eliasson appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador for climate|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|date=22 September 2019|access-date=2019-09-23}} In the context of his appointment, Olafur emphasized the need to stay positive: "I also think it's important not to lose sight of what is actually going quite well. There is reason for hope. I believe in hope as such and I'm generally a positive person. And when you think about it: it has never been better to be a young African girl, for instance."{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/olafur-eliasson-the-past-wont-guide-us-into-the-future/a-50646104|title=Olafur Eliasson: 'The past won't guide us into the future' {{!}} DW {{!}} 04.10.2019|last=Deutsche Welle|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-10-21}}

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• {{Cite book |last1=Birnbaum |first1=Daniel, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Michael Speaks |title=Olafur Eliasson |date=2002 |isbn=978-0-714840-36-9 |publisher=Phaidon Press |location=London |df=mdy-all }}
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• {{Official website|http://www.olafureliasson.net/}}
• [http://vimeo.com/7979103 Video of Olafur Eliasson conference: The Sun has no money]
• [http://moma.org/olafureliasson MoMA 2008: Olafur Eliasson: take your time] (requires Flash Player)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080827015113/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the_icemen_cometh/ 1998 article from frieze]
• [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/unilever-series-olafur-eliasson-weather-project Tate Modern: The Weather Project]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070819201858/http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=232 SFMOMA 2007: Olafur Eliasson Survey]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080430144925/http://www.sfmoma.org/eliasson/data/index.html 'Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson' at SFMOMA] (requires Flash Player)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070922080400/http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=316 Olafur Eliasson: Your Mobile Expectations]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080526023010/http://www.fundacionnmac.org/english/coleccion.php?id=93 Olafur Eliasson at the Fundación NMAC]
• [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/olafur-eliasson-riverbed-inside-museum A Riverbed Inside The Museum. An interview with Olafur Eliasson, 2014] Video by Louisiana Channel
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• [http://www.ted.com/talks/olafur_eliasson_playing_with_space_and_light Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light (TED2009)]

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