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Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is 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.
Olafur has engaged in a number of projects in public space, including the intervention Green river, carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008. 2009-2014 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and since 2014 he is an adjunct professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Abeba.
July 15th -- Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and it's where he still has one of his studios. The work that put Olafur on the map was the weather project, in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London, in 2003. It featured a glowing, half sun, that was reflected and completed by a mirror in the ceiling. Smoke and mirrors is one of his specialities.
http://www.ted.com In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of...
Like lava from a volcano, Olafur Eliasson’s fascinating installation ‘Riverbed’ runs through the Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The highly praised artist here shares his intriguing thoughts behind the installation. “The currency of trust” is the fundament on which ‘Riverbed’ is built - an installation that, according to Eliasson, bears resemblance to both the contemplative power of a Japanese garden as well as of ancient Pompeii after the destructive outbreak of Mount Vesuvius. In our society, a lot of things are defined by exclusion, and public institutions such as museums have to show that they have full trust in the artwork, the artist and the visitor in order for the latter to feel completely included. “If an audience feels trusted, then they dare to get involved”, says Elias...
Artist Olafur Eliasson, known for his immersive large-scale installations, creates art in order to share ideas and challenge why we do things. By affecting the space around us, Eliasson's works touch people, challenging them to think and act in ways that make a difference. His notable work includes Little Sun, Waterfalls and Your Rainbow Panorama. www.olafureliasson.net Read more: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/exclusive-video-olafur-eliasson-creates-a-sun-you-can-fit-in-your-pocket ___ SUBSCRIBE to The Creators Project: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_to_TheCreatorsProject SUBSCRIBE to The Creators Project Newsletter: http://bit.ly/HhxuUN ___ The Creators Project is a partnership between Intel and VICE: http://thecreatorsproject.com/ ___ Check out our full video catalog: http:...
A rare insight into the creative workings of Eliasson’s Berlin based studio, by the artist himself.
by Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern, London. Winter 2003/04.
The space that ideas stem from is similar to a treasure room, according to artist Olafur Eliasson, who here discusses his remarkable art installation ‘Model Room’. A beginning has the shape of an idea, and before the idea is something one might call intuition or something that is ‘felt’: “It’s meaningful but it has no words,” Elisasson says. Adding words to an idea, therefore, can sometimes be counterproductive and makes the idea more pragmatic as it has to be explained: “Intuition is always a flow, it’s like a little poem of something which has not yet come to verbalization.” This is why Eliasson or people from his team, among these mathematician Einar Thorsteinn, make models, because these “small spatial experiments” help him realize whether the actual work of art is as good as the i...
The Royal Academy Schools Annual Lecture. Renowned Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson is joined by the RA’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow to discuss his extraordinary architectural projects and works in public spaces over the past 20 years. Artist Olafur Eliasson’s diverse works – in sculpture, painting, photography, film, and installations – have been exhibited widely throughout the world. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the broader public sphere through architectural projects and interventions in civic space. His art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self, as well as his desire to make the concerns of art relevant to society at large. His projects have included The blind pavilion fo...
http://www.weforum.org/ A conversation with world-renowned artist and Crystal Award recipient Olafur Eliasson on design that changes lives and communities. · Olafur Eliasson, Artist, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Germany Moderated by Carol Becker, Dean of Faculty, School of the Arts, Columbia University, USA.
“Artists should have confidence in the fact that making a drawing is changing the world.” Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, here presents his strong and personal advice to young artists. “Making art is making the world”, Eliasson continues, stressing his point that art should not be marginalized, as art is not fragile, but quite the opposite: “Working with art is working with something that is very fierce, very strong and very robust.” Artists should be very sensitive to their surroundings and the context in which they find themselves. They should, however, also stay true to themselves and make sure that the strong market and its attractiveness does not commercialize them. Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) works with sculpture, painting, photography, film and installations. He grew u...
In his impressive presentation, artist Ólafur Elíasson demonstrated what light means for people and for himself, putting it in the context of his work. He also talked about his many years of collaboration with Zumtobel.
A discussion between Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen: Co-founders, Little Sun. Moderated by Chintan Vaishnav, Sr. Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management. Olafur Eliasson came to MIT as the recipient of the 2014 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. The McDermott Award celebrates innovative talents in all arts disciplines and includes a $100,000 cash prize, a campus residency and a gala held in his honor. http://artsm.it/eliassonmit Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen, Co-founders of Little Sun, discussed their art and social entrepreneurship venture with Fellows from the Tata Center for Technology and Design. The discussion was moderated by Chintan Vaishnav, Senior Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management. The Tata Center for Technology and Design is part of MIT's Energy...
Artist Olafur Eliasson and the scholar Lin Lerpold, Stockholm School of Economics - where invited to partake in a discussion on how create more sustainable societies.
VIA TED Talks: https://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_every_light_bulb?language=en What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower — and do it in a way that's more efficient, secure and widespread.
http://www.ted.com Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED ...
In our pilot episode of The Creators Project Meets, host Kathleen Flood heads to New York's Park Avenue Armory to talk with acclaimed choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Olafur Eliasson about their latest project, a dance performance inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's sculptural book, Tree of Codes. In their interview, the two collaborators talk about melding McGregor's adventurous and kinetic choreography, Eliasson's dazzling, kaleidoscopic art design, and composer Jamie xx's futuristic electro-pop score, into a challenging and immersive take on modern dance. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Ravi Deepres Learn More on The Creators Project here: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/show/tree-of-codes-the-creators-project-meets-wayne-mcgregor--olafur-eliasson Watch Trailer: Spike Jonze & Jonah ...
Discovering the carillon during her freshman year at Yale, Julie Zhu, with a bit of luck and sight-reading, joined the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs--the only student-run carillon organization in America. She toured Europe with the Yale Guild, gradually falling in love with the sound of the bells. After graduating from Yale in 2012 with a double major in mathematics and art, she embarked on her studies at the Royal Carillon School of Mechelen under the Belgian-American Education Fellowship. Zhu is also a painter and member of the visual arts faculty of the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. As a child, she watched her mother do Chinese calligraphy, but trained as an oil painter in high school. During her senior year of high school, President George W. Bush awarded her a double Presidential Scholar title...
Olafur Eliasson interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Produced by the Institute of the 21st Century with support from ForYourArt, The Kayne Foundation, Brenda R. Potter, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros
Olafur Eliasson, Artist, Berlin/Copenhagen in conversation with Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Filmed on site at Art Basel in Miami Beach, Thursday, December 5, 2013
In this interview Olafur Eliasson talks about his view of Frank Gehry's architecture and Inside the Horizon, 2014 the permanent installation that he developed in response to Frank Gehry's building. Central to the work of both of them is the visitor’s physical experience in a space that offers multiple perspectives.
ENGLISH BELOW: Olafur Eliasson i samtal med Timothy Morton I samband med utställningen Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner bjöd Moderna Museet och ArkDes in till ett Artist talk där den utställande konstnären Olafur Eliasson samtalar med Timothy Morton, verksam vid Rice University, Houston, Texas. Timothy Morton, som bidrar med en text i utställningskatalogen, är en del av den nya objektorienterade filosofin och har bland annat uppmärksammats för sin bok: Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013). Samtalet ägde rum den 2 oktober 2015 i Auditoriet på Moderna Museet/ArkDes. Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner 3.10 - 2015-17.1 2016 Moderna Museet/ArkDes. ENGLISH: Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Timothy Morton In relation to the exhibition Olaf...
'A moment of poetry' Ai Weiwei calls this interview made through Skype by Olafur Eliasson. 'I cannot talk on the internet or talk to foreigners and that is why doing it in this way is so important', Ai Weiwei says. Ai Weiwei (b 1957) was not allowed by the Chinese authorities to attend his exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in November 2011. Danish artist Olafur Eliasson interviewed Ai Weiwei at the opening through Skype asking him questions about his conception of a public space, poetry and how he would like resourceful people to use their voice. Eliasson also addresses the fact that Ai Weiwei might experience difficulties because of his taking part in this interview. 'There will always be difficulties, that's why answering of the questions become more meaningful', Ai Weiwe...
Art Documentary / 30 min / 2005 A portrait of the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. The film introduces Eliasson's work and aesthetic theories as it documents one of his largest exhibitions ever, Notion Motion, at the Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. Directed by Jan Schmidt-Garre Produced by PARS MEDIA Co-Produced by ZDF/3sat Supported by Media+ WWW.PARSMEDIA.COM