Museums are observatories

Out of space geometry - sliced meteorite revealing intricate Widmanstätten pattern #EliassonFLV

The eighteen moons in penumbra, 2014

We carry our horizons with us. #EliassonFLV

Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002

Bridge from the future #EliassonFLV

In process: Sculpting fivefold symmetry #EliassonFLV

To track the sun is to track yourself - #EliassonFLV

The sun tracker redirects sunlight onto a fixed point by adjusting a mirror in concert with the ‘movement’ of the sun across the sky.

The apparatus belongs to a family of optical devices known formally as heliostats – a word deriving from Greek roots that mean stationary sun.

To track the sun is to track yourself, because the sun tracker locates the centre of your orbital ellipse, giving your position right now and rendering visible your path. The reflexive potential lies in understanding that we are in a way the mirrors, circulating, tracking, spinning in our Keplerian ellipses. You and I are not the centre of the universe, but in fact spinning in altruistic space.

Olafur Eliasson

This meteorite just landed in the studio. Soon on its way to Paris.

Soon: Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

My exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton addresses that which lies at the edge of our senses and knowledge, of our imagination and our expectations. It’s about the horizon that divides, for each of us, the known from the unknown.

Olafur Eliasson

Objects are always a little bit out of phase with themselves and with one another... they are 'internally' out of phase with themselves, and this is what produces time and the possibility that they can interact. Timothy Morton, philosopher

Ice Watch - A project by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing

Twelve large blocks of inland ice, cast off from the Greenland ice sheet, were collected from a fjord outside Nuuk and shipped to Copenhagen. Presented in a clock formation in City Hall Square, from 26 to 29 October 2014, Ice Watch marked the publication of the UN IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change. The total weight of the ice – 100 tonnes – corresponds to the amount of inland ice melting every hundredth of a second, a rate that will only increase if global warming continues.

Out now: TYT Vol. 6: How to Make the Best Art School in the World - A visual representation of 5 years of the Institut für Raumexperimente

Freisetzung by Fabian Knecht - part of Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Now: Celebrating 5 years of the Institut für Raumexperimente - Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Continues until Saturday 1 November

Now: Festival of Future Nows opens tonight at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Everyone is invited!

Feature: The heat is on

Now: Olafur Eliasson at FIAC, Paris, 23 - 26 October, 2014