Algae window, 2020 - Symbiotic seeing, Kunsthaus Zürich
Black out at the museum. On Thursday at 8 pm Kunsthaus Zürich is turning of the lights in their collection, allowing visitors to experience and explore it with Little Sun. Part of Olafur’s exhibition Symbiotic seeing
Olafur Eliasson: Symbiotic seeing opens today at Kunsthaus Zürich
On view until 22 March 2020
Testing new artwork for Symbiotic seeing, a solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich, opening later this month
Huge congrats to our friends at Little Sun - who just delivered their 1 millionth solar lamp. The one million solar lamps have created a substantial social and health impact, accounting for 920,284,517 hours of light. As a result, 2,629,384 people now use clean solar energy instead of harmful fossil fuel–based lighting sources.
“We started the Little Sun project to raise awareness about the unequal distribution of energy today and to deliver a healthy, safe and affordable light to the people who needed it the most. What we have achieved today is a major milestone, not only for communities living without electricity, but for everyone fighting for the end of the fossil fuel era, global climate justice and a better future for us and our planet.” - Olafur
Yes, again, 2019, watercolour on paper
Riverbed, 2014 - now installed at Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
1 million lights means 1 million stories. This weekend Little Sun is celebrating the fact that they will be selling the 1 millionth solar lamp!
The glacier melt series 1999/2019 Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Colour mirror wheel, 2019
Detail of The glacier melt series 1999/2019 (Krossarjökull)
Detail of The glacier melt series 1999/2019 (Krossarjökull)
Every glacier lost reflects our inaction. Every glacier saved will be a testament to the action taken in the face of the climate emergency. One day, instead of mourning the loss of more glaciers, we must be able to celebrate thier survival
In 1999, Olafur photographed several dozen glaciers in Iceland as part of his on-going project to document the natural phenomena of the country; this particular series of photographs formed a work called The glacier series. Twenty years later, Eliasson decided to return to Iceland to photograph the glaciers again. A new work, The glacier melt series 1999/2019, brings together thirty pairs of images from 1999 and 2019 to reveal the dramatic impact that global warming is having on our world.
The glacier melt series 1999/2019 is on view as part of the exhibition In real life – at Tate Modern, London, through 5 January 2020 and at Guggenheim Bilbao from 14 February to 21 June 2020; it is also on view in an exhibition at Reykjavik Art Museum from 28 November 2019 to 9 February 2020.
Behind the scenes with Olafur Eliasson as he re-photographs the Icelandic glaciers that he first photographed twenty years ago, in 1999.
How can artists and arts institutions respond to the migrant crisis?
Join us for the panel talk: Art in real life: Migration, 18 November 2019, 18:30, Tate Modern
Taking Olafur’s project Green Light – An artistic workshop (2016) as a catalyst, this event will question how artists and art institutions can engage with migration in a moment of crisis. Examining a broad range of strategies, the speakers will discuss the potential of art and its limits. Speakers include artists Larissa Sansour and Imran Perretta, and Michaela Crimmin, co-director of Culture+Conflict
A transmitter of concrete and abstract ideas - SOE.TV
Vær i vejret, Orddrupgaard, Denmark. Video by Kyle Basilius
Have you seen the new season of Abstract: The Art of Design on Netflix? Many have been commenting on Olafur’s “slow mirror”.. Can you see through the illusion? Be sure to check out the whole episode, and the other great artists and designers featured
Beauty, 1993. Now part of In real life, Tate Modern, London