Olafur Eliasson: OPEN from September 15, 2024, through July 6, 2025, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The first major solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson in Los Angeles, OPEN is part of the landmark Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide and is organised by José Luis Blondet, Senior Curator, and Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant, and Anastasia Kahn, former Curatorial Assistant. Continuing Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and colour, geometry, and environmental awareness, Olafur Eliasson: OPEN presents a series of site-specific installations responding to MOCA Geffen’s building and the atmospheric conditions of Los Angeles.
Olafur Eliasson: OPEN features over a dozen works commissioned for MOCA, along with a selection of recent works organised around the artist’s research on perception, optical devices, physics and natural phenomena, navigational instruments, and colour experimentation. Eliasson draws attention to the relativity of our perception and challenges habitual ways of seeing and experiencing the world. The exhibition is informed by the artist’s belief in the potential of inconclusiveness—the idea that every artwork contains an aspect that is radically open.
Image: 'Kaleidoscope for plural perspectives', 2024; Installation view: Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin; Photo: Henri Lacoste | Studio Olafur Eliasson