ART | TALENT
ABOUT
“Art is not the object, but what the object does to the world,” Olafur Eliasson reflects. Using elemental forms—light and water, colour and movement—the Danish-Icelandic artist brings perceptual systems into sharp relief. Though Eliasson’s work spans many forms, he is best known for large-scale installations like the artificial sun shrouded in mist that transformed the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (The weather project, 2003), a series of glacial slabs of ice left to slowly melt in city squares during climate summits (Ice Watch, 2014-18), and monumental man-made waterfalls installed everywhere from the Palace of Versailles (Waterfall, 2016) to the base of the Brooklyn Bridge (The New York City Waterfalls, 2008). Eliasson relocated to Germany from Denmark in 1995. In a sprawling building that once housed a Berlin brewery, he established Studio Olafur Eliassion: a transdisciplinary space where projects are imagined and brought to life by a team of architects, philosophers, researchers, historians, technicians, cooks, and craftspeople.
Talent: Olafur Eliasson
Photographer: Vidar Logi @ Directors LAB
Stylist: Gabriella Norberg
Hair and Makeup Artist: Tobias Sagner
Photo Assistant: Florian Köllisch
Styling Assistant: Kitty Schäfer
Fashion Coordinator: Houda Ouakili
Editor-in-Chief: Sasha Kovaleva
With special thanks to Studio Olafur Eliasson
