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Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Iwan Baan
Riverbed, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014
Photo: Iwan Baan
Sketch for Riverbed, 2014 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Sketch for Riverbed, 2014
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014 - QAGOMA – 2019 - Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Riverbed, 2014
QAGOMA – 2019
Photo: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Footage from Eliasson’s artwork ‘Riverbed’ 2014, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. ‘Riverbed’, created specifically for the Louisiana Museum, filled the building’s entire south wing with a rocky landscape and a stream that threaded down through the galleries.
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A walk through Eliasson’s exhibition ‘Riverbed’ filmed from the foot’s point of view.

Created specifically for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, ‘Riverbed’, 2014, filled the entire south wing of the museum with a rocky landscape that threaded a stream through the galleries.
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Riverbed fills the white space of the museum with a grey, rocky landscape through which a narrow stream meanders. The landscape, comprising stones of various size and shape and in a range of grey tones, slopes up gently from where visitors enter and the stream disappears. Visitors are free to choose their own path as they move up towards the source of the stream, where the water bubbles up mysteriously through the stones. The contrast between these entirely new pathways and the routes suggested by the museum’s architecture challenges visitors’ expectations and invites them to find innovative ways of navigating the space.

 

 

Artwork details

Title

Riverbed

Year

2014

Materials

Water, Icelandic rock (volcanic stones [blue basalt, basalt, lava], other stones, gravel, sand), wood, steel, plastic sheeting, hose, pumps, cooling unit