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Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection, 2022 - Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022 - Photo: Rafael Suarez | TBA21
Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection, 2022
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022
Photo: Rafael Suarez | TBA21
Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection, 2022 - Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022 - Photo: Rafael Suarez | TBA21
Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection, 2022
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022
Photo: Rafael Suarez | TBA21
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Tate Modern, London - Photo: Michael Waldrep / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Tate Modern, London
Photo: Michael Waldrep / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús - Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Reykjavík Art Museum, Hafnarhús
Photo: Alcuin Stevenson / Studio Olafur Eliasson
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020
Photo: Erika Ede
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 (detail) - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 (detail)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020
Photo: Erika Ede
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020
Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Installation view, The curious desert - National Museum of Qatar, Doha – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view, The curious desert
National Museum of Qatar, Doha – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024 - Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024
Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
Installation view - Multiple shadow house and The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019 - Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024 - Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
Installation view - Multiple shadow house and The glacier melt series 1999/2019, 2019
Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024
Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
Installation view of 'Your unexpected encounter' - Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Türkiye – 2024 - Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Installation view of 'Your unexpected encounter'
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Türkiye – 2024
Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Behind the scenes with Olafur Eliasson as he re-photographs the Icelandic glaciers that he first photographed twenty years ago, in 1999.
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In 1999, Olafur Eliasson photographed several dozen glaciers in Iceland as part of his on-going project to document the natural phenomena of the country; this particular series of photographs formed a work called The glacier series. Twenty years later, Eliasson decided to return to Iceland to photograph the glaciers again. A new work, The glacier melt series 1999/2019, brings together thirty pairs of images from 1999 and 2019 to reveal the dramatic impact that global warming is having on our world.