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Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 at night, in position on the barge - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 at night, in position on the barge
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Batteries storing midsummer light for Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Batteries storing midsummer light for Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015 during the day, in position on the barge - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 during the day, in position on the barge
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 during the day, in position on the barge - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 during the day, in position on the barge
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Solar panels collecting energy for Your Star, 2015 on the roof of Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, in summe - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Solar panels collecting energy for Your Star, 2015 on the roof of Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, in summe
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 (detail) - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 (detail)
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Your Star, 2015 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Your Star, 2015
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Testing Your Star, 2015 at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, 2015 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Testing Your Star, 2015 at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, 2015
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your Star, 2015 - Stockholm, 2015 - Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Your Star, 2015
Stockholm, 2015
Photo: Anders J. Larsson / Nobel Media
Preliminary test for Your Star, 2015 - Allgäu, Germany, 2015 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Preliminary test for Your Star, 2015
Allgäu, Germany, 2015
Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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In December of 2015, Your Star shone in the night sky above Stockholm City Hall to commemorate Nobel Week and to celebrate new knowledge, dreams, and light. Held aloft by a large helium balloon, the star consists of a specially designed spherical casing tipped by a bright LED lamp. The light is powered by solar energy that was collected in midsummer and stored in a battery, thus using the summer sunlight to brighten the darkness of winter.

Your Star is accompanied by an interactive website – www.olafureliasson.net/yourstar – which includes Making Your Star, six videos that follow the emergence of an idea and its journey towards becoming an artwork. The site also offers visitors the opportunity to make their own stars in a virtual night sky.

Artwork details

Title

Your Star

Year

2015

Materials

Helium balloon, aluminium casing, lithium iron phosphate battery, 30 W LED light

Link

www.olafureliasson.net/yourstar↗
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