Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen, Denmark) creates artworks that use light, water, colour, and movement to recalibrate how we perceive the world. Moving fluidly between sculpture, installation, and architecture, he builds environments that heighten awareness—fog-filled chambers, shifting suns, rivers of refracted light. Rooted in ecology and social engagement, Eliasson’s practice invites viewers to experience themselves as part of a larger, shared system. His works are at once sensorial and civic, transforming perception into a catalyst for connection and change.
9 July 2019 • Mark Westall
Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) returns to Tate Modern with a major survey exhibition of his career to date, following his world-renowned installation The weather project in 2003.
2 July 2019 • Mark Westall
Louis Poulsen, the world-renowned Danish lighting brand have revealed their collaboration with Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson the OE Quasi Light.
4 June 2019 • Mark Westall
To offer inspiring everyday tools where renewable energy contributes to a sustainable and independent life: this is the ambition behind SAMMANLÄNKAD, a series of new products, created through a collaboration between IKEA and the social business, Little Sun.
30 December 2018 • Mark Westall
Our Top 5 news stories feature: Stuart Semple x 2, Olafur Eliasson, Punk and Adrien Brody
6 December 2018 • Mark Westall
Olafur Eliasson, working in collaboration with leading geologist Minik Rosing, will display blocks of melting ice across two public sites in the centre of London to create a major artwork, Ice Watch.
3 December 2018 • Mark Westall
Curated by Hou Hanru together with the curatorial and research teams of the museum, ‘The STREET. Where the world is made’ will transform the MAXXI into an intense and somewhat chaotic street scene.
28 November 2018 • Mark Westall
RIMOWA and Olafur Eliasson have joined forces to create a special collection of 46 nature-inspired luggage stickers. For the Little Sun Foundation.
11 February 2018 • Tabish Khan
Turn black and white, cactus seduction, a pussyhat, witchcraft, a palaeontology dig, tar and suspended by the tongue.
13 December 2017 • Mark Westall
A solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson is opening in the new year at the Espace Muraille a unique space dedicated to contemporary art
11 June 2017 • Mark Westall
Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons and Olafur Eliasson are premiering new artwork on the world’s most ambitious virtual reality art platform, Acute Art.
11 January 2017 • Mark Westall
I know , I know it’s really late but I’m busy it’s not easy being the Editor of one of the most interesting art platforms in London anyway I’ve made a resolution to take things a bit slower this year to stop and think , contemplate, learn and stuff … highlights below
16 June 2016 • Staff
TBA21 has announced that Olafur Eliasson’s Green light – an artistic workshop will be presented at Art Basel on June 18th and 19th within Zome Alloy, an architectural structure by Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon.
25 May 2016 • Mark Westall
Featuring an intuitive charge and battery indicator, a powerful battery (4400mAh) and a handy inbuilt lamp, Little Sun Charge is as useful to those wanting a smart, portable way to charge their phone, camera, e-reader, MP3 player and other small devices on the go, as it is for those living without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
21 April 2016 • Syndicate
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pew
12 April 2016 • Mark Westall
At FAD we love art that crosses cultural boundaries, art that tries to instigate debate, art that tries to make a difference and not least art created by artists who are aware of and interested in the world outside of art. Olafur Eliasson is such an artist; interested in renewable energy, sustainability, ways of working and living and above all, ways of making the world work better and with his studio team in Berlin, he produces projects that he wants to improve the world.
19 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Opening Friday, November 20th 7 pm, at The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy
BAROQUE BAROQUE brings together a significant selection of artworks by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson from the private collections of Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) and Juan and Patricia Vergez
1 July 2015 • Mark Westall
Gerhard Richter, Arvo Pärt, Björk, Ed Atkins, FKA twigs, Douglas Gordon, Hélène Grimaud, Charlotte Rampling, Nico Muhly, Paris Opera Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, Jamie xx, Maxine Peake, Antony, Justin Fletcher, Arca, Invisible Dot Ltd, Damon Albarn, Rufus Norris.
27 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Doug Aitken to own the summer- A Solo show at Victoria Miro – A major show at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt a 30 day Happening at The Barbican and then a Film Premier !
29 December 2014 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features Turner, Schiele, Gothic art and literature, a history of Germany and the legacy of war.
12 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Artworks from some of the world’s most influential contemporary artists went under the hammer last night (11th December) at Unicef UK’s first ever contemporary art auction SyriART, raising vital funds to help protect Syrian children from danger.
3 December 2014 • Mark Westall
Fondation Louis Vuitton is launching the second phase of its inaugural programme with an expansive exhibition by Olafur Eliasson..
27 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Unicef UK announced yesterday that 35 world-renowned artists have donated artworks to their first ever contemporary art auction, SyriART, which will raise vital funds to help protect Syrian children from danger.
19 November 2014 • VC Maurer
through the sale of Constant Dullaart’s encrypted treasure map and Aranda / Lasch’s Treasure Chest this evening, during Phillips’ Contemporary Evening Sale for Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition: the latest art and conservation project conceived by TBA21-ACADEMY, the arts foundation chaired by philanthropist Francesca von Habsburg.
