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  • Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 - Photo: Hyunsoo Kim
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 - Photo: Hyunsoo Kim
  • Ventilator, 1997 - 1st Berlin Biennale, Germany, 1998 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
  • Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 – 1997 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Boros Collection, Berlin, 2008 – 1997 - Photo: Noshe
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1997 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
  • Ventilator, 1997 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Museum of Modern Art,  New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
  • Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Ventilator, 1997 - Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 - Photo: Hyunsoo Kim
Ventilator, 1997 - Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016 - Photo: Hyunsoo Kim
Ventilator, 1997 - 1st Berlin Biennale, Germany, 1998 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 – 1997 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Ventilator, 1997 - Boros Collection, Berlin, 2008 – 1997 - Photo: Noshe
Ventilator, 1997 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ventilator, 1997 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1997 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Ventilator, 1997 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Ventilator, 1997 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Ventilator, 1997 - Museum of Modern Art,  New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Ventilator, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Ventilator, 1997

and yet it moves

centripetal force

destabilisation

energy

expectations

making space explicit

pendulum

space scanner

uncertainty

wind

  • and yet it moves
  • centripetal force
  • destabilisation
  • energy
  • expectations
  • making space explicit
  • pendulum
  • space scanner
  • uncertainty
  • wind

Attached to a cord and suspended from the ceiling, an electric fan swings erratically and irregularly through a space, propelled by the air it displaces.

Artwork details

Title

Ventilator

Year

1997

Materials

Fan, wire, cable
Related
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, 2019
  • Olafur Eliasson: Works from the Boros Collection 1994-2015, 2015
  • Reality machines, 2015
  • Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007
  • Colour Memory and Other Informal Shadows, 2004
  • Funcionamiento silencioso, 2003
  • Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science, 2001
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2013
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2002
Solo shows
  • Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2020
  • Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2019
  • The parliament of possibilities, 2016
  • Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner, 2015
  • Olafur Eliasson. Werke aus der Sammlung Boros 1994 - 2015, 2015
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2009
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007-2008
  • Funcionamiento silencioso, 2003
  • Surroundings surrounded, 2001
  • Your sun machine, 1997
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