‘We have now on our planet the largest generation of children Earth has ever seen. Through Earth Speakr, they showed us that they know what is happening and they know what needs to be done. And they know what kind of world they dream of. It is up to us to listen and take action.’ – Olafur Eliasson in ‘Talking to You’, 2022
‘Olafur Eliasson: Orizzonti tremanti / Trembling horizons' opens at Castello di Rivoli on 3rd November. The exhibition transforms the Manica Lunga wing of Castello di Rivoli by installing a new series of immersive wedge-shaped optical device-like artworks in the long gallery. Inside each, the viewer can watch complex patterns unfold in fluid motion within a 360-degree panoramic space that seems more expansive than physically possible – optical illusions created through mirrors and light projections.
Image: ‘Your power kaleidorama', 2022 (photo: Agostino Osio).
At Studio Olafur Eliasson, testing light projections for 'Olafur Eliasson: Orizzonti tremanti (Trembling horizons)’, curated by Marcella Beccaria. Opening this week at Castello di Rivoli, from 3 November 2022. (photo: Tegan Emerson / Studio Olafur Eliasson).
'Firefly double-polyhedron sphere experiment', 2020. Part of 'Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo’ at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio).
'Under the weather', 2022. Part of 'Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo’ at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio).
'Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo’ (In your time) opens at Palazzo Strozzi this week on 22nd September. The exhibition brings together new and older works that respond to the Renaissance architecture of the palazzo, immersing the building in light, fleeting shadows, reflection, patterns, and intense colour.
Image: 'Just before now', 2022 (photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio).
'Your view matter', 2022.
A VR artwork by Olafur Eliasson presented by Metapurse & Acute Art. A new immersive artwork exploring bodily perception in the digital space, can be explored in VR today at yourviewmatter.art.
'Rainbow compass', 2011 (photo: Jens Ziehe).
'Vertical Panorama Pavilion', designed by Studio Other Spaces is now complete at the Donum Estate in Northern California.
Taking inspiration from the history of circular calendars, the wine-tasting pavilion has an elevated conical canopy lined with recycled glass panels. Stacked up vertically above 12 columns that emulate the months in a year, the colourful hues of the glass panels depict the weather conditions essential for the creation of Donum’s wine – solar radiance, wind intensity, temperature, and humidity. (Photo: Adam Potts)
‘Sonnenenergie 22’ (Solar energy 22), 2022. Currently on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, until 4 September 2022. Photo: Juliane Eirich
Starting 22 September 2022, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting a major exhibition 'Nel tuo tempo', exploring the art of Olafur Eliasson, whose multifaceted output invariably places the visitor at the heart of his reflection on the notion of shared experience and interaction with reality. Image: 'Firefly double-polyhedron sphere experiment', 2020 (photo: Jens Ziehe).
Installation view of ‘Seeing sensitivity flare’, 2022 in Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Inside the new blind spots’ solo exhibition at PKM Gallery, Seoul. Photo: Yongjoon Choi / PKM Gallery
Installation view of Olafur Eliasson’s current solo exhibition ‘Inside the new blind spots’ at PKM Gallery, Seoul. Photo: Yongjoon Choi / PKM Gallery
‘Feeling backward’, watercolour and pencil on paper, 2022. Photo credit: Jens Ziehe
‘The Seeing City’ is a new site-specific, permanent artistic installation designed by Studio Other Spaces (a studio for spatial experimentation co-founded by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann) for the top two floors of the former Préfecture de Paris on Boulevard Morland.
‘Sun window’, installed Kunsthalle Wien, 1997. Some of the glass panes in a pre-existing window frame are covered with colour filters so that when the sun shines, the coloured glass creates a colourful pattern in the room inside.
‘Sonnenenergie 22’ (Solar energy 22), 2022. Currently on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Photo: Gunnar Gustafsson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MP_nyqNJk
In celebration of Earth Day, you can watch the short film ‘Talking to You’ from Earth Speakr. Directed by Anni Ólafsdóttir. Narrated by Olafur Eliasson. Story and script by Eva Lind Höskulddsdóttir, Anni Ólafsdóttir, and Andri Snær Magnason. Based on messages from more than 10,000 children in more than 70 languages, all made with Earth Speakr.
‘Sonnenenergie 22’, 2022. On view at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich from the spring equinox to the fall equinox of 2022.
‘We humans are very familiar with the extraordinary importance of sunlight for all life on earth – after all, the path of the sun shapes the very rhythm of life and provides orientation in our world. The earth’s daily rotation and annual orbit make the sun the natural clock for all living creatures on our planet.’ – Olafur Eliasson
‘Big Bang Fountain’, 2014. Installed at Tate Modern in London, 2019. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
‘Reversed waterfall’, 1998. TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary collection. Now on view as part of the group exhibition ‘Abundant Futures’, curated by Daniela Zyman at Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía in Córdoba. Photo: Hyunsoo Kim
‘Din blinde passager’ (Your blind passenger), 2010. Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Olafur Eliasson explores where we are now and how we navigate – in our everyday lives and in the highly complex world of today. One thing is to inquire into our sense of presence; another is to consider where we are going and what the future will look like… There’s only a slight risk of getting lost. Self-reflection and partial knowledge may accompany you.
Detail of ‘Unforgetting solar exposure’, watercolour, 2020