Feature: From the melting archive
Feature: New film of Model room, 2003, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2014
Now: Extinction Marathon at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 18 - 19 October 2014
Soon: Extinction Marathon 18 - 19 October 2014, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
Poster by Olafur Eliasson
Now: Schools of movement sphere, 2014, on view at Frieze London, 15-18 October 2014
Now: Model room, 2003, as part of Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
On view until 4 January 2015
Now: Model for a timeless garden, 2011, part of Light Show at Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Until 8 February 2015
Feature: Olafur Eliasson - Trust, Confidence, Intuition: Contact Is Content, 2014
A film by SHIMURAbros
Now: Sensing the Future - László Moholy-Nagy, the Media and the Arts
Group exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin. On view until 12 January 2015
Now: Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
On view until 4 January 2015
Now: Olafur Eliasson, Graphic Works, Borchs Butik, Copenhagen
On view until 29 October 2014
Your compound view, 1998, installation view at Reykjavik Art Museum, 2014
Feature: La situazione antispettiva, 50th Biennale di Venezia, 2003
Landscape - looking in, looking out
Nervous landscapes
Feature: The very large ice floor, 1998, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Our relation to space, a curious line
Scale is you in relation
'During my childhood in Iceland, electricity was rationed because of the oil crisis in the early seventies. As a five-year-old child, I remember a siren in the city sounding very clearly, and suddenly the whole city blacked out at once. It was like a massive work of urban land art. What was more remarkable, though, was that the experience of the sunlight would change. As the sunlight was also visible at night in the summer, albeit faintly, it was as if the daylight had suddenly been turned on. Seen from inside a house, the twilight outside the windows became much more apparent the moment the lights went out. This intensity and beauty of light outside struck me then, and it has influenced me since.'
Adapted from Olafur Eliasson, 'The Rise of Little Sun', blog entry, 19 July 2012
Latest issue of Disegno magazine, featuring Your uncertain archive
The question is if an archive is something retroactive, which, informally or not, tends to suggest an objective view of the past; or if it’s more of a subjective facilitator, which actually nurtures a proactive approach and suggests that is also about writing a narrative that’s more concerned with the future than the past. There is also a general need to find a systematic way to make use of archives, which are collections of knowledge. Instead of archives turning into dust-collecting heaps of knowledge, they can be proactive reality machines.\
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Olafur Eliasson interviewed in Disegno, no. 7, A/W 2014–15
Two years of uncertainty: visualising the entanglements of artworks and ideas for the development of Your uncertain archive
Now: Spiegeltunnel, 2009, one of three works on view at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, as part of the group exhibition, Schwindel der Wirklichkeit
