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Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Justin Sutcliffe
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Justin Sutcliffe
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Justin Sutcliffe
Ice Watch, 2014 - City of London, outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - City of London, outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Bankside, outside Tate Modern, London, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - City of London, outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters, 2018 - Photo: Charlie Forgham-Bailey
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 - Photo: Martin Argyroglo
Ice Watch, 2014 - Photo: Jørgen Chemnitz
Ice Watch, 2014 - Photo: Jørgen Chemnitz
Ice Watch, 2014 - Photo: Jørgen Chemnitz
Ice Watch, 2014 - Photo: Group Greenland
Ice Watch, 2014 - Photo: Group Greenland
Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Cover of Ice watch Paris newspaper, published by Studio Olafur Eliasson - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Spread from Ice watch Paris newspaper, published by Studio Olafur Eliasson - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Spread from Ice watch Paris newspaper, published by Studio Olafur Eliasson - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
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Twelve large blocks of ice cast off from the Greenland ice sheet are harvested from a fjord outside Nuuk and presented in a clock formation in a prominent public place. The work by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing raises awareness of climate change by providing a direct and tangible experience of the reality of melting arctic ice. Ice Watch has been installed in three locations.

The first installation was in Copenhagen, at City Hall Square, from 26 to 29 October 2014, to mark the publication of the UN IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change. The second installation took place in Paris, at Place du Panthéon, from 3 to 13 December 2015, on the occasion of the UN Climate Conference COP21, and the third version of Ice Watch was on view from 11 December 2018 to 2 January 2019 at two locations in London – outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters and in front of Tate Modern.