Olafur Eliasson
With his monumental conceptual pieces—reverse waterfalls, indoor sunsets, rivers dyed green—Olafur Eliasson is creating art that mesmerizes critics and crowds alike.
Olafur Eliasson behind his Berlin studio.
Beauty, 1993, installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Your Colour Memory, 2004, wooden panels, stainless steel, fluorescent tubes, colored filter foil, electric supply net, backlight foil, black theater foil (installation view, 2000).
© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Reversed Waterfall, 1998, water, metal, wood. foil, pump.
© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Ice Pavilion, 1998, steel, sprinkler, water.
© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin
La Situazione Antispettiva (The Antispective Situation), 2003, stainless steel.
© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin