Featured time-lapse video: The turning of a sphere - work in progress
Olafur Eliasson: Boros Collection 1994 - 2015 at the Langen Foundation
On view until 18 October, 2015
Featured video: Contact, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2014 - 2015
Feature: Fivefold symmetries
Explored in collaboration with geometer Einar Thorsteinn, fivefold symmetry constitutes a recurring theme in Olafur Eliasson’s work. This particular symmetric pattern stems from five groups of parallel lines, each group derived from one side of a pentagon. As they spread, the lines cross at distinct angles, giving rise to a rhythmic but aperiodic pattern marked by regular pentagons in two sizes and five-pointed stars. The web of lines produces a sense of harmony as well as confusion – a dialectic of expectations in the viewers’ mind.
Sliced meteor reveals intricate Widmanstätten pattern. Instagram
Video: Riverbed, 2014, as seen from the perspective of a pair of feet
#EliassonMirrored: over the course of the exhibition, this site will grow with visitors' visual responses, texts, poems, and films
New Green light website
An artistic workshop and learning platform at TBA21, Vienna
Featured video: A walk through the rainbow walkway
Time-lapse: Cirkelbroen, Copenhagen, 18 March
https://vimeo.com/122900808
'Pong' played on the façade of Harpa, Sónar Reykjavík 2015
Preparing for tomorrow's solar eclipse
Video feature: Inside the horizon, permanent installation at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou
While developing the exhibition We have never been disembodied, I worked with the idea that the architecture would find itself reflected in and identified by the artworks; visitors would find themselves in the artworks; the artworks would find themselves in the architecture; and the architecture would find itself within the visitors. This is not to say that all become one. The focus, instead, is on an economy of shifting identifications. The mirroring of Mirrored Gardens is not about the reflections themselves; it is rather about the ability to nurture identification, the same way we identify with something unknown yet emotionally familiar.
Olafur Eliasson