Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson ( Copenhagen, Denmark, 1967). Eliasson’s works, described by the artist as ‘experimental setups’, span photography, installation, sculpture, and film. Around 70 craftsmen, architects, geometers, and art historians work in his Berlin studio. In 2003 he represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale and installed The weather project at Tate Modern, London. The 2007 SFMOMA exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson travelled until 2010. Innen Stadt Aussen (Inner City Out), 2010, and Seu corpo da obra (Your body of work), 2011, involved interventions across the cities of Berlin and São Paulo in addition to works in museums. Projects in public space include Green river, realised in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, with Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls, 2008. Recent architectural works are Your rainbow panorama, for ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, and – with Henning Larsen Architects – Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, recipient of the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013. As professor at Berlin University of the Arts, Eliasson founded the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute of Spatial Experiments) in 2009.