Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is the first major solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson in Los Angeles, OPEN is part of the landmark Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Continuing Eliasson’s career-long exploration of light and colour, geometry, and environmental awareness, the exhibition presents a series of site-specific installations responding to MOCA Geffen’s building and the atmospheric conditions of Los Angeles.

Olafur Eliasson: OPEN features over a dozen works commissioned for MOCA, along with a selection of recent works organised around the artist’s research on perception, optical devices, physics and natural phenomena, navigational instruments, and colour experimentation. Eliasson draws attention to the relativity of our perception and challenges habitual ways of seeing and experiencing the world. The exhibition is informed by the artist’s belief in the potential of inconclusiveness—the idea that every artwork contains an aspect that is radically open.

Your OPEN experience is a tool for experimenting, experiencing, and reflecting based on the artworks in the exhibition. It is developed by the artist and his studio in Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson (SOE) and Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER), an art-science project led by artist Olafur Eliasson and scientist Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus University) and funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (2019-2025).