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Feature: Your relativity of black

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Your House, 2006

Feature: book as sculpture

Your House, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York 2006 - Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Cover from Never Tired of Looking at Each Other – Only the Mountain and I, edited by Anna Engberg-Pedersen / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Hu Fang, Huang Shan, and Lu Jiu, Beijing / London 2012
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Riverbed, 2014

Featured video: Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2014

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The inventive velocity, 1998 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 1998

Feature: Vortical flow

The inventive velocity, 1998 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 1998
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Untitled (Spinning Mirror), 1998 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 1998
Detail of Vortex for Lofoten, 1999 - Kunstfestivalen Lofoten, Norway, 1999
Vortex for Lofoten, 1999 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 1999 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
The glacier mill series, 2007 - neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2008 – 2007 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Well from the parallel garden, 1998 - Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjalvarsstadir, 1998 - Photo: Einar Falur Ingolfsson
Well from the parallel garden, 1998 - Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjalvarsstadir, 1998 - Photo: Einar Falur Ingolfsson
Model for Spiral tower, 2000 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2012 - Photo: Viola Heyn-Johnsen
Sketch for Wirbelwerk, 2012
Wirbelwerk, 2012 - Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2013 - Photo: Thilo Frank / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Wirbelwerk, 2012 - Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2013 - Photo: Lenbachhaus
Sketch for Bridge from the future, 2014
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Mihret Kebede, poem for the Time-sensitive activity catalogue

Life of a planet, 2015 - Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2015

Tomorrow: Time-sensitive activity opens at Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa

Life of a planet, 2015 - Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2015
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Concert and poetry night, 27 February, Alliance Ethio-Francaise d'Addis Abeba
Organized by Institut für Raumexperimente

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Instagram

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Contact closes today. Stay in contact.

Olafur Eliasson, Contact - a film by SHIMURAbros

Video: Contact - a film by SHIMURAbros

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Out now: Catalogue for the exhibition, Contact, at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Available here

Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, limited edition printed with flourescent ink - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, limited edition printed with flourescent ink - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin 2014
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Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Contact, limited edition printed with flourescent ink - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Contact – A film by Claire Denis

Video: Contact - a film by Claire Denis

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Bridge from the future

Video: Bridge from the future - a film by SHIMURAbros

Double infinity

Video: Double infinity - a film by SHIMURAbros

Bruno Latour, Anti-Zoom

The optical devices and unexpected courses of events in Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition disturb our perceptions and force us to address the question of scale in space and time in an entirely new manner.

For in fact neither the schema of space nor that of time appears continuous: levels of reality do not nestle one within the other like Russian dolls. It cannot be said that the small or the short lies within the large or the long, in the sense that the largest or the longest contain them but with just “fewer details.” When one shifts from a map on a scale of 1 cm. to 1 km. to one on 1 cm. to 10 km. the latter does not contain the same information, if less exact, as the former: it contains other information that might (or might not) coincide with what appears in the former.

This metaphor emerges from the optics of photography, from the zoom created by the use of a lens called—it’s obvious why—”telescopic.” In fact, one might almost posit a rule: good artists do not believe in zoom effects.

Bruno Latour, Anti-Zoom, excerpt from Contact catalogue

Map for unthought thoughts

Video: Map for unthought thoughts - a film by SHIMURAbros

Caroline A. Jones, Event Horizon

We are convinced that horizons exist, even if we never reach them. Relational and species-specific, horizons take very different forms for the scurrying beetle, the preying hawk, and the navigating shark. The etymology for the word itself is rooted in a “limiting circle,” yet we also learn, in living with it, that the horizon is limitless and untouchable: it’s just over there, where the future promises to reveal itself, and there, where the past recedes– eternally morphing as we approach, eternally disappearing behind us.

Caroline A. Jones, Event Horizon
Excerpt from Contact catalogue

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Liminal, Richard Sennett, excerpt from Contact catalogue

Liminal: an arty, abstruse, abused word. Also, a real experience. “Liminal” names that moment when things are on the edge of appearing or disappearing, you aren’t sure which. “Liminal” can name the play of shadows on a wall; uncertainty comes because you don't know whose bodies casts the shadow, or, if the shadow is giant, whether the real body is also giant, or instead, minute -- the shadow, as it were, greater than the self. Again, a liminal experience can be one in which a strong, contained light obscures rather than illuminates the space around it, like the penumbra of strong light and deep dark which occurs as an eclipse of the moon comes and goes; during this transition, you are aware of darkness in a way you normally aren’t.

Richard Sennett, Liminal, excerpt from Contact catalogue

Innen Stadt Aussen, 2010

Feature: city shapes

Non-stop park (Entwurf für einen Park), 2009 - Rheinhardt Park, Berlin, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Non-stop park (Entwurf für einen Park), 2009 - Rheinhardt Park, Berlin, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Suncity drawings & Suncity model Stockholm, 2005
Suncity drawings & Suncity model Stockholm, 2005
Suncity drawings & Suncity model Stockholm, 2005
Sense of space produces space shades life, 2011
Model for spiral city, 2001 - neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2001 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Sketch for 5-dimensionel pavillon, 1998 by Einar Thorsteinn
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The collectivity project, 2005 - 3rd Tirana Biennale, Albania, 2005 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Sketch for the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Innen Stadt Außen, 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2010
Olafur Eliasson discusses his collaboration with Michel Bitbol

Olafur Eliasson talks about his collaboration with Michel Bitbol at Fondation Louis Vuitton, 23 January 2015

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