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4 years
Cellular landscape – the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, nuclear magnetic resonance, and cryoelectron microscopy datasets. Credit: A cross-section through a eukaryotic cell, by Evan Ingersoll & Gael McGill
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Today 20 years ago, Olafur created 'The weather project' for the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. Video: Documentation of 'The weather project', 2003; previously shown @Tate Modern London (The Unilever Series) in 2003.
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20 years ago, Olafur’s installation 'The weather project', 2003, filled the Turbine Hall inside @Tate Modern.
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We are the weather. ‘The weather project’, 2003, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
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Imagine Peace Tower, Iceland. Here are 17 steps towards a more peaceful world. @yokoono @SDGaction #GlobalGoals
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A mushroom releasing spores into the atmosphere – those millions, even billions, of expelled spores produce tiny droplets of water through condensation, and those tiny droplets build up into proper rain clouds, according to scientists. Video credit: Villareal C Jojo
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Happy 20th birthday to @Tate Modern! Thanks for an incredible two decades of shaping culture through bold exhibitions & diverse programming. We're proud to have been a part of it from early on, from ‘The weather project’ in 2003 to ‘In real life’ in 2019. Here’s to 20 more years!
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Olafur investigates how bodily and sensuous experiences lead to insights. In his artistic production he has considered with how the physical world, nature’s fundamental elements, and basic phenomena such as light, darkness, and reflections can result in cognitive experience.
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We have no choice but to use this moment as an opportunity to give rise to new movements built on respect and empathy.
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The Turner colour experiments - isolating and recording Turner’s use of light and colour and translating them into circular oil paintings.
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Postcard pollution meter colour chart - hold up to the sky to calibrate the eye to air quality. by artist Macarena Ruiz Tagle, at the Shanghai Biennale - via. @DehliaHannah
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Lissajous curves, via Reddit A Lissajous curve is the graph of a system of parametric equations that describe complex harmonic motion. How it is expressed visually is highly sensitive to the ratio, which when shifted can create simple to complex curves, often looking like knots.
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Olafur’s ‘Moss wall’, 1994 (photo: Hyunsoo Kim) and Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Lichenes’, from ‘Kunstformen der Natur’, 1904. ‘Moss wall’ is now on view as part of Olafur’s solo exhibition ‘In real life’ @MuseoGuggenheim in Bilbao
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‘Feelings are facts’, 2010, installed at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
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‘The weather project’, 2003, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern London (The Unilever Series) (photo: Jens Ziehe)
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‘One of the first times I was conscious of light having an effect was when I was a child during the oil crisis in Iceland. The electricity went off every evening. Today they use geothermal energy.' - Olafur. Image: ‘Contact’, 2014. Photo: Iwan Baan
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‘Waterfall’, installed @ARoSArtMuseum , Denmark, 2004 (photo: Poul Pedersen)
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An eco-friendly 3D-printed house, known as a TECLA, under construction in Ravenna, Italy. The house, made entirely from recyclable materials recovered from local soil samples, is manufactured by  @3dwasp  and is adaptable to any climate or context.
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'Mirror my compassion Buddha in me', 2021 (photo: Jens Ziehe).
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‘Room for one colour’, 1997, now on view @MuseoGuggenheim Bilbao (photo: Erika Ede)
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8 years
Icelandic light.
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3 years
Created for the exhibition ‘Take your time: Olafur Eliasson’, ‘One-way colour tunnel’ is now in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where the piece is currently on view. @sfmoma
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9 years
Why art has the power to change the world. @LeoDiCaprio , @iamwill , and Yao Chen @wef
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‘Spatial orbit’, 2021 (photo: Jens Ziehe)
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Have you seen the new season of @AbstractNetflix ? Many have been commenting on Olafur’s “slow mirror”.. Can you see through the illusion? Be sure to check out the whole episode, and the other great artists and designers featured @netflix
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‘Your rainbow panorama’, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2011
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‘Model for decelerated light’, 2021 (photo: Jens Ziehe) – now on view as part of Olafur’s solo exhibition ‘Your ocular relief’ @TanyaBonakdar Gallery in New York, open through 24 April.
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9 years
Very excited to announce upcoming exhibition at Versailles this summer! @CVersailles
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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light get's in. Leonard Cohen
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‘The weather project’, 2003, Turbine Hall, @Tate Modern London (The Unilever Series). Photo: Ari Magg
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Keep sharing the light! Imagine Peace Tower, Iceland. @yokoono @LittleSun
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‘Compassion sphere’, 2011 – studio view
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‘Rendezvous with a flare’, 2019 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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7 years
Bloomberg's new European headquarters in London sets new standards for sustainable office buildings. @BloombergDotOrg @MikeBloomberg
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‘The mediated motion’, 2001, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (photos: Markus Tretter)
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‘Waterfall’, Palace of Versailles, 2016
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‘Your uncertain shadow (colour)’, 2010
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‘Gravity stairs’, 2014, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (photo: Hyunsoo Kim/Courtesy of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art)
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‘Stardust particle’, 2014 (photo: Jens Ziehe) – now on view as part of Olafur’s solo exhibition ‘In real life’ @MuseoGuggenheim in Bilbao.
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Imagine yourself in the place of the other. Your other. #empathy #mirroring @yokoono
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‘Colour experiment no. 108’, 2020 Photos: Jens Ziehe
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Installation view of Olafur’s current solo exhibition 'Near future living light' at neugerriemschneider in Berlin.
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‘Care and power sphere’, 2016 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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Rem Koolhaas and Virgil Abloh Discuss Consumerism, IKEA and Millennial Design @virgilabloh via @ArchDaily
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‘Rainbow ellipse progression’, 2020 (photo: Matthias Kolb)
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‘Colour spectrum eye’, 2019 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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‘Your new bike’, 2009 – installed in Tiergarten, Berlin, 2010
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7 years
The floor is made of lava. Literally. #Reykjavik #Iceland
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Welcoming back the sun. #WinterSolstice
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‘Everywhere compass’, 2017 (photo: Jens Ziehe)
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‘Atmospheric compass’ watercolour series, 2021 #i8gallery
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The surface of a soap bubble as it freezes Video: Christian Kohl via YouTube
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‘Purple movie’, watercolour, 2012
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‘Your connectivity dance’, 2020 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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‘The experience of colour, closely related to the experience of light, is also a matter of cultivation. As much as perception is linked with memory and recognition, our relation to colour derives from our cultural habitat.' – Olafur, ‘457 Words on Colour’
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Happy winter solstice, northern hemisphere! Happy summer solstice, southern hemisphere! Happy Monday, Equator! ‘Midnight sun’, 2017 (photo: Jens Ziehe)
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‘Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.’ – Rebecca Solnit, ‘Hope in the Dark’, 2016 ‘Ice Watch’, 2014, installed at Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015 (photo: Martin Argyroglo)
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Green light is a lamp a learning platform a meeting ground a metaphor a methodology an act of welcoming! @yokoono
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10 years
Riverbed is running. Opens tomorrow at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. http://t.co/bve0In6XtK
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‘Colour experiment no. 108’, 2020 (photo: Jens Ziehe). Currently on view in Olafur’s exhibition ‘Your light spectrum and presence’ @TanyaBonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles.
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A camera situated in Zug took a series of photographs from the same position and angle & at the same time of day for a year. By tracking the changing position of the sun, Olafur’s Analemma for Kunsthaus Zug aims to make the movement of the earth over the course of a year explicit
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‘Algae window’, 2020 (photos: Franca Candrian, Jens Ziehe)
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'The colour-current dilemma', 2022, consists of twenty-four elliptical panes of colourful, handblown glass arranged in three rows one above the other (photo: Jens Ziehe).
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‘Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge’, 2020, at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston @MFAH .
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‘Tomorrow flare’, 2021 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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‘The open pyramid’, 2016 (photo: Anders Sune Berg)
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‘Atmospheric wave wall’, 2020, permanent installation on the exterior of Willis Tower, Chicago (photos: Darris Lee Harris)
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Olafur’s latest installation ‘The living observatory’ is now open at The Art Space 193, a new cultural space in Daejeon, Korea. Images: ‘The living observatory’, The Art Space 193, 2021 (photo credit: kdkkdk atelier)
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Celebrate light, wherever you are.
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'Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge,' 2020, is an investigation into our perception of colour as a construct. 'Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge', 2020; Installation view: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Water down the drain, winds of hurricanes, currents in the ocean, the form of galaxies.
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‘Atmospheric wave wall’, 2020, permanent installation, Willis Tower, Chicago (photos: Darris Lee Harris)
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‘Life’ doesn’t go to sleep at night. @fondbeyeler Photo: Mark Niedermann
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We’re happy to announce that Olafur’s new double-kaleidoscope work ‘Gesellschaftsspiegel’ (‘Society mirror’) is being inaugurated today at its permanent public home at the Hamburg Alter Wall in Hamburg, Germany.
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Olafur’s installation work ‘Take your time’ (2008) is now on view in the newly opened LUMA Arles tower in France. Video: Jörg Schwarzburg
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Two huge icebergs that calved off of Greenland are currently floating past Iceland's northeastern coast near Hraunhafnartangi, near the Arctic Circle. So far, sadly, residents have expressed that this is not a normal event in their region. Photo source: Rannsóknastöðin Rif
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‘The exploration of the center of the sun’, 2017, currently on view at ‘Special Exhibition: Olafur Eliasson’, in 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, @Kanazawa_21 until 11 September 2022 (photos: Kazuo Fukunaga).
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‘Your sense of unity’, 2016, installed at the Palace of Versailles (photo: Anders Sune Berg)
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‘Black glass sun’, 2017 (photo: Luca Fascini)
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‘Cirkelbroen’ (Circle bridge), Copenhagen, 2015. Photo by @CosedisNicolas , 2021.
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‘Our glacial perspectives’, 2020, has just been inaugurated at the Hochjochferner glacier in South Tyrol. Photos: Martin Rattini, Riccardo Marianno
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‘Biosphere collective’, 2020 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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‘Your happening, has happened, will happen’, 2020 (photo: Kazuo Fukunaga) – on view soon at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
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‘Complementary green Thursday’, 2019 (photo: Jens Ziehe)
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‘Complementary orange Wednesday’, 2019 (photos: Jens Ziehe)
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"Lichen are ghosts that haunt us from the past, but they also peer at us from a future without us” - Introduction to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Ernst Haeckel, Lichen, 1904
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‘Panoramic awareness pavilion’, created for the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, Iowa, 2013 Photo: Brian Abeling
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Views of Olafur’s work ‘Model of invisible futures’, 2021, part of the larger installation ‘The living observatory’, now open at The Art Space 193, a new cultural space in Daejeon, Korea. @onlySHINSEGAE Photos: kdkkdk atelier
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‘Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.‘ – Rebecca Solnit, ‘Hope in the Dark’, 2004/2016 Image: ‘Your uncertain shadow (colour)’, 2010
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In Japan the lockdown is lifting and we’re delighted to announce that, as of today, Olafur’s solo exhibition ‘Sometimes the river is the bridge’ is finally open to the public @MOT_art_museum in Tokyo. Running until 27 September 2020.
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It's been 5 years since the completion of Fjordenhus, the first building designed by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann. Rising out of the water, the fjord flows directly through the building inviting in the wind, water, harbour, land, and the changing weather.
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Interesting: Art museum hires a neuroscientist to change the way we look at art @artsy
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‘The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.’ – Rebecca Solnit Image: ‘Stardust particle’, 2014
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‘Unforgetting solar exposure’, 2020, a series of 36 watercolours, is now on view as part of Olafur's solo exhibition 'Near future living light' at neugerriemschneider in Berlin.
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‘The world needs togetherness, not separation. Love, not suspicion. A common future, not isolation.’ – Etel Adnan In memory of artist and poet Etel Adnan (1925–2021) Image: ‘Untitled’, 2010
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‘Tree of Codes’, by Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx with dancers from Company Wayne McGregor and Paris Opera Ballet, 2015 Opera House, Manchester, 2015 Photo: Joel Chester Fildes
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Possibilities of synchronicity. ‘Your unpredictable sameness’, 2014 – installed at Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2016.
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