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Test for Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Test for Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 - Photo: Anna Sofie Hartmann / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Photo: Anna Sofie Hartmann / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich – 2008 - Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich – 2008
Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your mobile expectations; BMW H2R project, edited by Martina Kupiak / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2008
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 2: Printed Matter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Cologne 2009
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 2: Printed Matter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Cologne 2009
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2007
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 1: Small Spatial Experiments, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2007
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 - Photo: Anna Sofie Hartmann / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Photo: Anna Sofie Hartmann / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Studio Olafur Eliasson – 2006
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich – 2008 - Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich – 2008
Photo: Haydar Koyupinar
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson's research project Your mobile expectations was commissioned by BMW. Starting point was a hydrogen-powered BMW H2R car that was delivered to the studio in 2005. Before the actual form development was commenced, a series of conversations with architects, scientists, designers, and theorists were initiated to gain background information. Focus was on mobility, perception, design, and architecture. The car was considered not as an object, but as part of a complex set of relations and exchanges with the surroundings. Investigations were made into surfaces and patterns for a car structure that would change according to the viewer's movement and perspective. These resulted in various tests with ice, first deploying nets hanging from the ceiling of a specially made, yellow geodesic dome, situated in the garden of Studio Olafur Eliasson, which could be cooled down to below 0°C. These tests led to a double-layer skin, consisting of welded steel rods and mirrors, based on a spiral geometry. Onto this structure water was sprayed that subsequently froze. The skin and icicles, growing between the two layers, were lit by monofrequency light, emitted from within. The work thus only exists in a special frozen-down environment.
As part of the research, two symposia were organised at Studio Olafur Eliasson: LIS (Life In Space) 2006 and LIS (Life In Space) 2007, creating a forum for architects, philosophers, designers, artists, cultural critics, and scientists to discuss various issues connected to the work at the studio.