Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliassonis a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionArtist
CountryDenmark
architects designers exhibit hardly noticeable reflected
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
architect asked beijing breathe certainly directly harmful museum project protect safe smoke whether
I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.
certain landscape looking moment mountain mountains move stand start starts walked
I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
russia choices india
If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
past cities berlin
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
thinking safe-haven cities
It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.
berlin firsts germany
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
art thinking museums
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
art ideas creating
I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.
distance reality artist
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
photograph said relevance
Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.
art thinking trying
I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.