Inverted campfire series, 2006 - i8, Reykjavik, 2009 – 2006 - Photo: Vigfus Birgisson

Active memory: from the burning archive

Iceland series #73, 2002
Your perfect lovers, 2005 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2005
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Contact is content, 2014

Preview of Contact is content, 2014, on view as part of Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Your uncertain archive, 2014

Your uncertain archive!: drift, explore, connect – embrace uncertainty

"I wanted the chance to allow for a higher degree of negotiability, and also that little bit of discomfort in being slightly lost sometimes. Not too lost but lost in the sense of having to work a little harder to find your path.... We're so used to commodified home pages, everything is about predictability, in order to make people feel safe."

Olafur Eliasson on Your uncertain archive.

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Movement microscope, 2011, on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Movement microscope, a film by Olafur Eliasson, depicts a normal day at Studio Olafur Eliasson, with one major difference: Eliasson invited 'movement specialists' (street performers, mimes, dancers) to come perform a kind of spatio-temporal intervention throughout the studio during the work day.
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Movement microscope is now on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, until 4 January, 2015.



Watch the film online here:

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View from the studio

View through Olafur Eliasson's Know-how kaleidoscope, 2014, Kabelparken, Copenhagen

View of Know-how kaleidoscopes, 2014, Kabelparken, Copenhagen
Video: Bo Tengberg

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Now: Know-how kaleidoscopes, 2014, Kabelparken, Copenhagen

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Now: Gravity stairs, 2014, on view at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea until 28 December

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How does it feel to keep balance?
How does it feel to lose it?

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Model room, 2003, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Ping-pong on the façade of the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall

Ping-pong on the façade of the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall

Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg

Riverbed is now open at Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Riverbed, 2014 - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Astrolafur: anti-gravity dance

Model for a timeless garden, 2011 – A film by Tomas Gislason

Active memory: from the anti-gravity archive

Excerpt from: Your Gravitational Now



Originally published in David Featherstone and Joe Painter, eds.,
Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (Chichester, 2013), pp.125–32.



Imagine standing on the vast banks of black sand just south of Vatnajökull,
the largest glacier in Iceland, looking northwards onto the tip of Skeidarárjökull,
one of its glacier tongues. From this particular point, the wide glacier takes up
a large part of the horizon, and its gravel- and ash-covered nose sprawls into an
ungraspable mass. Abstraction and impalpability pervade, filtered through your
here-and-now body. Standing right in front of the glacier, you may first begin to
feel a degree of intimacy and familiarity. The experience of proceeding onto the
glacier itself is a moment of intense physical drama. Pressurised by the mass
of ice, a sub-glacial water current causes the otherwise dry black sand right in
front of the tongue to undulate like a fatigued trampoline. Cautiously trying to
cross the few yards of billowing sandy surface to the glacier itself, you develop
a funny, anti-gravity-like gait – a bit like moon-walking. Hoping to defy physics,
you make yourself light, distribute your weight as evenly as possible, heart
pounding. Quicksand below threatens to pull you in.

The inverted verge, 2003 - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, 2003 - Photo: Roberto Marossi
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‘Contact is content is a visual narrative that takes you up close and far away, that asks you to turn around, to look at the landscape anew, to look at yourself. As the material came together, content arose through contact between landscapes and artworks, bodies and weather conditions, light and relative darkness.’

Olafur Eliasson

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No nights in summer, no days in winter, 1994 - Forumgalleriet, Malmö, 1994 - Photo: Flemming Brusgaard

Active memory: images from the archive

No nights in summer, no days in winter, 1994 - Forumgalleriet, Malmö, 1994 - Photo: Flemming Brusgaard
Infinity, 1991 - Overgaden, Kulturministeriets Udstillingshus for Nutidig Kunst, Copenhagen, 1992; Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 1992 – 1991
Mirror moon, 2003 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2003
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Inspiration: The Last Whole Earth Catalog

Excerpt from Clip, Stamp, Fold by Beatriz Colomina, New York 2010. pp.11
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Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei's Moon

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Books we are reading at the moment

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Grey Sheep: A-B-A-B-A: from here to hear

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Invitation for Grey Sheep, 11 July 2014
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