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Cover of Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Cover of Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open house
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Studio team in Fog assembly, at Olafur Eliasson Versailles - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Studio team in Fog assembly, at Olafur Eliasson Versailles
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Harvesting ice from the sea off the coast of Greenland, 2014; Ice Watch (2014) in Copenhagen, 2014,  - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Harvesting ice from the sea off the coast of Greenland, 2014; Ice Watch (2014) in Copenhagen, 2014,
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, The gaze of Versailles, 2016 (2016) peering out of the studio kitchen - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, The gaze of Versailles, 2016 (2016) peering out of the studio kitchen
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Solar empowerment spiral, 2016 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Solar empowerment spiral, 2016
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Green light, 2016 – An artistic workshop at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Green light, 2016 – An artistic workshop at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, moving The shape of disappearing time, 2016 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, moving The shape of disappearing time, 2016
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Institut für Raumenexperimente – documentation of marathons, exhibitions, walks, and road trips - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Institut für Raumenexperimente – documentation of marathons, exhibitions, walks, and road trips
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, constructing a steel structure for Cubic crystals, 2015 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, constructing a steel structure for Cubic crystals, 2015
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing materials and design in the metal workshop - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber/ Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing materials and design in the metal workshop
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber/ Studio Olafur Eliasson
Drawing by Olafur Eliasson
Drawing by Olafur Eliasson
Some of the studio team - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Some of the studio team
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing light and shadow effects - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing light and shadow effects
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Pentagonal mirror tunnel, 2017 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Pentagonal mirror tunnel, 2017
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Your sense of unity, 2016 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Your sense of unity, 2016
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Deep mirror (yellow), 2016 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Deep mirror (yellow), 2016
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Rainbow assembly, 2016 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Rainbow assembly, 2016
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, tests for Green light, 2016 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, tests for Green light, 2016
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, unloading extra glacial ice from Ice Watch (2015) - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, unloading extra glacial ice from Ice Watch (2015)
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, transporting The shape of disappearing time, 2016 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, transporting The shape of disappearing time, 2016
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, in the glass workshop - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, in the glass workshop
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, mixing glacial rock flour - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, mixing glacial rock flour
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, mock-up of Your unpredictable path, 2016 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, mock-up of Your unpredictable path, 2016
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Care and power sphere, 2016 - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, working on Care and power sphere, 2016
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Deep mirror (black) and Deep mirror (yellow), 2016 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing Deep mirror (black) and Deep mirror (yellow), 2016
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, Olafur and the team testing a light and shadow installation - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, Olafur and the team testing a light and shadow installation
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Studio Olafur Eliasson – Open House, conceived and edited in collaboration with independent curator Joanna Warsza, who conducted extensive interviews with studio members, is a candid self-portrait of the studio. Texts and photographs invite readers to explore the kitchen’s hands-on take on the politics of food; the processes of the metal and wood workshops; the experimental approach to arts education at the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments); the strategies for spatial research at Studio Other Spaces, an office for art and architecture founded by Eliasson together with Sebastian Behmann; and the global dialogues of Little Sun, Eliasson’s social business.

Open House focuses on both artistic processes within the studio and the studio’s exchanges with the broader world, following ideas from their initial emergence to their embodiment as artworks or projects and shows the forms of engagement in which Olafur and the studio are increasingly invested – research, dialogue, and ideas-turned-into-action. Photographs of the studio, interviews with Olafur and members of the studio team, excerpts from books that inspire the studio’s daily practice, and texts from external collaborators – including neuroscientists, economists, social scientists, curators, playwrights, philosophers, psychologists, and climate scientists – bring readers into the very midst of the studio as a site of artistic production, intellectual exchange, and social engagement.