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Olafur Eliasson

Posted inOpinion

Watching Our Ecosystem Slowly Lose Color

by Dolly Church June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

There is a desire to cover up ecological degradation through artificially adding color, which constitutes a kind of denialism.

Posted inArt

Kiss, Hug, or Get Lost in Olafur Eliasson’s Giant Reflective Spheres

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson September 10, 2019September 10, 2019

Eliasson suggested that it was just fine for people to touch his artwork. He even said it would be great if anyone wanted to kiss or hug the spheres.

Posted inIn Brief

Wheelchair User Criticizes Tate Modern for Inaccessibility Issues at Olafur Eliasson Exhibition

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 12, 2019

The Tate has responded, saying that the tunnel sculpture in question “cannot be made safely accessible for wheelchair users.”

Posted inArt

The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson

Avatar photo by Anna Souter August 5, 2019

The curators of Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life have highlighted the the open-endedness of his practice by allowing the exhibition to spill out over the boundaries of the ticketed space into corridors, the terrace outside, and other places.

Posted inArt

Claire Denis on Black Holes, Olafur Eliasson, and the Making of High Life

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 16, 2019April 15, 2019

“This movie is about things we know today about our own galaxy. It’s not an unknown future. It’s almost here.”

Posted inIn Brief

Olafur Eliasson Partners with IKEA to Spark Affordable Solar Energy Products

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 18, 2018

A new partnership is slated to bring affordable energy and light to IKEA consumers around the world.

Posted inOpinion

New VR Arts Platform Launches with Abramović, Eliasson, Koons, and a Whole Lot of Hype

by Claire Voon June 16, 2017

Acute Art aspires “to explore and enable the transition from art in the physical world into the new, disruptive realm of VR,” something artists have been doing for years.

Posted inIn Brief

Olafur Eliasson Recruits Refugees to Assemble Symbolic Green Lights

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne April 4, 2016April 9, 2016

In response to Austria giving migrants a red light, Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson decided to create a “Green light,” a crystalline polyhedral LED light made from recycled materials.

Posted inArt

Olafur Eliasson’s Sundial of Melting Icebergs Clocks In at Half-Past Wasteful

by Joseph Nechvatal December 9, 2015December 24, 2015

PARIS — In the aftermath of November’s terrorist attacks and the ruling Socialist Party’s meltdown following a strong first-round showing for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, I glummly went to the Place du Panthéon to see Ice Watch Paris, an exhibition of melting icebergs by Danish relational artist Olafur Eliasson.

Posted inPerformance

Three Famous Artists Collaborate on One Empty Spectacle

by Claire Voon September 16, 2015October 4, 2015

Tree of Codes brings together the efforts of three major names from three different disciplines: Wayne McGregor, the award-winning British choreographer; Danish-Icelandic visual artist and light wizard Olafur Eliasson; and electronic music producer Jamie xx, one third of the band the xx.

Posted inArt

Olafur Eliasson on Turning Light into Color

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino January 14, 2015January 17, 2015

For the past six years, the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been working with a color chemist to produce paint pigments that correspond to each nanometer of the visible light spectrum.

Posted inNews

Olafur Eliasson Creates a Riverbed in a Museum

by Claire Voon August 20, 2014August 23, 2014

Today, Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, fills the museum’s South Wing with dirt and rocks of all sizes, complete with a narrow, meandering trench of water, to transform the space into a craggy landscape.

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