• Current
  • Your uncertain archive
  • SOE.TV
  • Artworks
  • Exhibitions
  • Publications
  • Events
  • Read
  • Biography
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Future Assembly
  • Earth Speakr
  • Research map
  • The glacier melt series
  • Ice Watch
  • Green Light
  • SOE Kitchen 101
  • Studio Other Spaces
  • Little Sun
  • 121Ethiopia
  • Institut für Raumexperimente
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Kitchen Instagram
  • Contact
  • Press
  • Jobs
  • Legal
  • Privacy
  • Proposal for a park
  • Artworks
Menu
Thumbnails Images Information
  • Proposal for a park, 1997 - 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, Amos, California, 1997 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
  • Proposal for a park, 1997 - 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, Amos, California, 1997 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
  • Proposal for a park, 1997 - Foundation De 11 Lijnen – 2017 - Photo: Felix Tristan Hallwachs
  • Proposal for a park, 1997 - Foundation De 11 Lijnen – 2017 - Photo: Felix Tristan Hallwachs
Proposal for a park, 1997 - 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, Amos, California, 1997 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Proposal for a park, 1997 - 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, Amos, California, 1997 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Proposal for a park, 1997 - Foundation De 11 Lijnen – 2017 - Photo: Felix Tristan Hallwachs
Proposal for a park, 1997 - Foundation De 11 Lijnen – 2017 - Photo: Felix Tristan Hallwachs
1 of 4

Proposal for a park, 1997

intervention

landscape

public space

spatial potential

  • intervention
  • landscape
  • public space
  • spatial potential

Realised for the third Symposium on Visual Arts, in Amos, Quebec, Proposal for a park is a Romantic garden hidden in a dirt field. Curved chalk lines sketch out potential paths and vistas of a landscaped green space.

Artwork details

Title

Proposal for a park

Year

1997

Materials

Chalk
Related
Artist's books
  • Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Conversation books
  • Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series; vol. 13, 2008
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge, 2020
  • Y/our future is now, 2019
  • Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science, 2001
Interviews
  • Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2002
Monographs
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: Unspoken Spaces, 2016
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2002
Solo shows
  • Recalibrating the senses in Oudenburg, 2017
Back to Artworks