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Contact, 2014 – Exhibition view

Featured video: Contact, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2014 - 2015

Map for unthought thoughts

Feature: Fivefold symmetries

Explored in collaboration with geometer Einar Thorsteinn, fivefold symmetry constitutes a recurring theme in Olafur Eliasson’s work. This particular symmetric pattern stems from five groups of parallel lines, each group derived from one side of a pentagon. As they spread, the lines cross at distinct angles, giving rise to a rhythmic but aperiodic pattern marked by regular pentagons in two sizes and five-pointed stars. The web of lines produces a sense of harmony as well as confusion – a dialectic of expectations in the viewers’ mind.

5-dimensionel pavillon, 1998 - Strandparken, Holbæk, Denmark, 2000 – 1998 - Photo: Noshe
5-dimensionel pavillon, 1998 - Strandparken, Holbæk, Denmark, 2011 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Sketch for 5-dimensionel pavillon, 1998 by Einar Thorsteinn
Sketch for 5-dimensionel pavillon, 1998 by Einar Thorsteinn
3 D fivefold symmetry, 2000 - Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin 2009 - Photo: Ludger Paffrath
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 2000 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002 - Photo: Bertrand Huet
Fivefold eye, 2000 - neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2000 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Fivefold sphere projection lamp, 2004 - Jarla Partilager, Stockholm, 2007 - Photo: Mathias Johansson
Sphere, 2003 - Fünf Höfe, Viscardihof, Munich, 2011 – 2003 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Sphere, 2003 - Fünf Höfe, Viscardihof, Munich, 2011 – 2003 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Map for unthought thoughts, 2014 - Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
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Sliced meteor reveals intricate Widmanstätten pattern. Instagram

Walking ‘Riverbed’

Video: Riverbed, 2014, as seen from the perspective of a pair of feet

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#EliassonMirrored: over the course of the exhibition, this site will grow with visitors' visual responses, texts, poems, and films

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New Green light website
An artistic workshop and learning platform at TBA21, Vienna

Your rainbow panorama, AROS, Aarhus, Denmark

Featured video: A walk through the rainbow walkway

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Your rainbow panorama - an orientation tool.

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Cirkelbroen under way, Copenhagen, 18 March

Time-lapse: Cirkelbroen, Copenhagen, 18 March

Close readings from ‘Never Tired of Looking at Each Other – Only the Mountain and I’

Feature: (e)merging space

Four handgardens, 2008
At Studio Olafur Eliasson - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson / María del Pilar García Ayensa, 2011
Olafur Eliasson, email correspondence with Hu Fang, 19 February 2013
Space molecule, 2011 - Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2011
Your disappearing garden, 2011 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2012 - Photo: Jean Vong
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PONG+ during Sónar Reykjavík 2015

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'Pong' played on the façade of Harpa, Sónar Reykjavík 2015

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Preparing for tomorrow's solar eclipse

Inside the horizon, 2014

Video feature: Inside the horizon, permanent installation at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

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Bridge under way - Cirkelbroen, Copenhagen, Thursday 12 March

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Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming

Now: We have never been disembodied at Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China

Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Your circular now, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Attraction, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
The seeing galaxy, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
The seeing galaxy, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Installation view - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
Time amplifier, 2015 - Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Panyu, Guangzhou, China, 2015 - Photo: Luo Xianglin, Chen Shengming
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Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou

While developing the exhibition We have never been disembodied, I worked with the idea that the architecture would find itself reflected in and identified by the artworks; visitors would find themselves in the artworks; the artworks would find themselves in the architecture; and the architecture would find itself within the visitors. This is not to say that all become one. The focus, instead, is on an economy of shifting identifications. The mirroring of Mirrored Gardens is not about the reflections themselves; it is rather about the ability to nurture identification, the same way we identify with something unknown yet emotionally familiar.

Olafur Eliasson

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Video tests at Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2010

Feature: Body in motion

Non-stop park (Zeitlupenstudie), 2009 - Rheinhardt Park, Berlin, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Non-stop park (Zeitlupenstudie), 2009 - Rheinhardt Park, Berlin, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Non-stop park (Zeitlupenstudie), 2009 - Rheinhardt Park, Berlin, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Love letter from us by Olafur Eliasson, Christina Werner and Eric Ellingsen in Akademie  - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Love letter from us by Olafur Eliasson, Christina Werner and Eric Ellingsen in Akademie  - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Slow-motion shadow in colour, 2009 - Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2010 - Photo: Gallery Koyanagi
Mat for multidimensional prayers, 2014 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2014 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Now: Time-sensitive activity, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa
On view until 15 April

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