Studio Olafur Eliasson

The majority of Olafur Eliasson's work collected in a wonderfull publication by TASCHEN, which provides a detailed review of its installations, photographs, sculptures and even architectural projects that he has developed in his 'experimental laboratorio' in Berlin where the artist works.

Your waste of time, 2006. Installation view: neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany. Photography © Jens Ziehe. Courtesy of the artist. Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

Olafur Eliasson born in Copenhagen in 1967. His work is known worldwide and develops halfway between Copenhagen and Berlin. Since 1995, when he moved to Berlin, his work has grown along different interventions, all in a constant search for an ongoing dialogue between art and the space where he develops his projects. Their study now has more than 70 people, formed on all kinds of specialties, from craftsmen, architects and of course artists, art historians and even chefs.

The book includes material on most of his recent work ranging from installations to photographs, sculptures and architectural projects.

The key concepts of his works are presented with short conversations with the artist in which he reflects on his intentions when working. On the other hand and through additional material we can know more about the research projects he also carries out in the studio.

The introduction is written by the art historian Philip Ursprung who also took part in conversations with the artist.

Among the contents of the book would highlight well-known works of the artist as the installation at the Tate Modern in London in 2003, 'The Weather project'.

Studio Olafur Eliasson.
Authors.- Olafur Eliasson and Philip Ursprung.
Hardcover, 19,7 x 25 cm, 532 pages.
Multilingual edition.- English, French, German.

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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007. Installation view: Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, UK. Private owner.

Dufttunnel, 2004. Installation view: Autostadt Wolfsburg, Germany, Autostadt GmbH, Wolfsburg, Germany. Click above to see larger image.

The weather project, 2003. Installation view; Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK. Photography © Jens Ziehe. Courtesy of the artist. Neugerriemschneider, Berlín; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.

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Olafur ELIASSON

Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Copenhagen between 1989 and 1995. He represented Denmark in the 2003 Venice Biennale and has exhibited his work at numerous international museums. His work is part of private and public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and Tate Modern in London, where his seminal work The weather project was exhibited. Eliasson lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.

Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The weather project at Tate Modern, London. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, a survey exhibition organised by SFMOMA in 2007, travelled until 2010 to various venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

As professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Eliasson founded the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute of Space Experiments) in 2009, an innovative model of arts education. In 2012, he launched Little Sun, a solar-powered lamp developed together with the engineer Frederik Ottesen to improve the lives of the approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide without access to electricity. Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, for which he created the façade in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013.

Verklighetsmaskiner (Reality machines) at t he Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2015, became the museum’s most visited show by a living artist. In 2016 Eliasson created a series of interventions for the palace and gardens of Versailles, including an enormous artificial waterfall that cascaded into the Grand Canal.

His other projects include Studio Other Spaces, an international office for art and architecture which he founded in Berlin in 2014 with architect Sebastian Behmann; and Little Sun, a social business and global project providing clean, affordable light and encouraging sustainable development, with engineer Frederik Ottesen.