Ólafur Elíasson's practice explores the significance of art in the global context. He was born in Copenhagen to Icelandic parents and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he established Studio Olafur Eliasson as a laboratory for spatial research in Berlin which today comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians, and specialised technicians.
Ólafur Elíasson (b. 1967, Denmark) lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. He has had wide-ranging solo shows in major museums around the globe, including currently at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2024), and recently at the National Museum of Qatar (2023), Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland (2021) and the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain (2020). Eliasson has engaged in numerous projects in public space and architectural designs, including the façade of Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, and he represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
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Beyond human time 25 Jun - 15 Aug 2020 i8 GalleryÓlafur Elíasson’s newest exhibition at i8, Beyond human time, brings together recent watercolour artworks by the artist. Watercolours have been a sustained interest of Elíasson’s that he has used since...Read more -
SOE Kitchen
The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 11 Aug - 28 Oct 2018 OtherOn 11 August, chef Victoria Eliasdóttir and her brother, artist Olafur Eliasson, will open a culinary space in Reykjavik, hosted by the Marshall Restaurant + Bar. Running for almost three...Read more -
Studio Olafur Eliasson
The Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland 18 Mar 2017 - 1 Dec 2021 OtherÓlafur Eliasson recently opened the doors of his new satellite studio at the Marshall House in Reykjavík. Berlin has long been the artist's primary site for artistic production, where Studio...Read more -
Works on Paper
Birgir Andrésson, Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Ignacio Uriarte, Janice Kerbel, Karin Sander, Kristján Guðmunddsson, Lawrence Weiner, Ólafur Elíasson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir and more 5 Sep - 31 Oct 2013 i8 GalleryFeaturing 30 artists, Works on Paper uses the conventional subtitle as title to emphasize the exhibition’s shift in focus; from paper as merely media toward a wider interpretation for its...Read more -
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Tiltrú 6 Jun - 17 Aug 2013 i8 GalleryIcelandic nature is prominent in Elíasson’s work, and his artistic relationship with it often involves collection or documentation that is scientific in tone. The country becomes a sensory laboratory where...Read more -
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Winter Show
Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Ólafur Elíasson, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Lawrence Weiner and more 13 Dec 2008 - 10 Jan 2009 i8 GalleryNew works by Karin Sander, Þór Vigfússon, Kelly Jazvac, Ólafur Elíasson, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Finnbogi Pétursson, Ívar Valgarðsson, Guðrún Einarsdóttir, A.K Dolven, Kristján Guðmundsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Ragnar...Read more -
Summer Show
Ólafur Elíasson, Karin Sander, Roni Horn, Birgir Andrésson and more 20 Jul - 2 Sep 2006 i8 GalleryRead more -
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12 May - 22 Jun 2002 i8 GalleryThroughout history one can observe how different models of seeing and of relating to space – that is mans relation to his surroundings – have replaced each other, parallelly with...Read more -
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Ólafur Elíasson: Lifeworld
CIRCA 1 Oct - 31 Dec 2024Eliasson, internationally renowned for artworks that address how we co-create our worlds, is transforming several of the world’s most iconic urban screens into expansive abstractions. Lifeworld will appear every evening at 20:24 for three months (1 October—31 December 2024) on Piccadilly Lights in London, K-Pop Square in Seoul, Limes Kurfürstendamm in Berlin and throughout November in Times Square, New York and globally on WeTransfer.com.Read more -
Olafur Eliasson: OPEN
MOCA, Los Angeles 15 Sep 2024 - 6 Jul 2025Olafur Eliasson: OPEN is the first major solo museum show of Eliasson's work in Los Angeles and is part of the landmark Getty initiative PST...Read more -
Olafur Eliasson: Your unexpected encounter
Istanbul Modern 7 Jun 2024 - 9 Feb 2025Olafur Eliasson's first solo exhibition in Türkiye, “Your unexpected encounter,” reflects the artist's deep interest in light, color, perception, movement, geometry, and the environment. The...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Common Sky
the Buffalo AKG Art Museum 12 Jun 2023 - 12 Jun 2024Studio Other Spaces (SOS) – led by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann – designed Common Sky, a canopy of glass and mirrors that envelops the courtyard of the Seymour H. Knox Building. Both a sculpture and an architectural structure, Common Sky provides a space that is free and open to the public, and that reflects the museum’s vision of a twenty-first-century art institution of inclusion.Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: The curious desert
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar 19 Mar - 15 Aug 2023The curious desert is the first solo exhibition of Olafur Eliasson’s work in the Gulf region. The exhibition brings together a dozen new site-specific installations located in the desert, near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar, and an extensive gallery presentation at the National Museum of Qatar of artworks created over the artist's career.Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: Shadows travelling on the sea of the day
Northern Heritage sites, Doha, Qatar 24 Oct 2022Olafur Eliasson’s site-specific work ‘سفر الظلال في بحر النهار (Shadows travelling on the sea of the day)’ opens today north of Doha as part of...Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: In your time
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy 22 Sep 2022 - 22 Jan 2023The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi is proud to announce Nel tuo tempo (In your time), a major exhibition by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson on display throughout...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Vertical Panorama Pavilion
Sonoma, California, USA 1 Aug 2022The Donum Estate, one of the leading California Pinot Noir producers, inaugurates Vertical Panorama Pavilion, a space dedicated to tasting wine, enabling a contextual and...Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: Det lyttende spejl
Regional Hospital Gødstrup, Herning, Denmark 20 Apr 2022The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s installation Det lyttende Spejl (The listening mirror) at the entrance to the newly opened Regional Hospital Gødstrup generates a unique...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Sonnenernergie 22
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany 15 Apr - 4 Sep 2022For the first time, an artistic installation presented in the light-flooded Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne focuses on the sun. From mid-April the earth's rotation around the sun will become the protagonist of an ephemeral light painting - Olafur Eliasson's expansive artwork Sonnenenergie 22 (Solar Energy 22).Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: The living observatory
The Art Space 193, Daejeon, South Korea 17 Sep 2021‘The living observatory’ is a multipart work of art that renders the viewer’s perspective both explicit and complicit through each element. It comprises six interrelated...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: LIFE
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland 1 Apr - 31 Jul 2021‘“Life” presents a model for a future landscape. It is hospitable. When Sam Keller, the Director of the Fondation Beyeler, and I first discussed the...Read more
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ETERNAL RECURRENCE
Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik Art Museum 27 Mar - 19 Sep 2021In this extensive exhibition, the works of Jóhannes S. Kjarval (1885-1972) create a thread which connects different periods in time. His art is displayed along...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: ATMOSPHERIC WAVE WALL
Willis Tower, Chicago, USA 12 Jan 2021EQ Office today revealed Atmospheric wave wall, a new cultural landmark and the first public art installation in Chicago by globally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson....Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 21 Nov 2020Sometimes an underground movement is an illuminated bridge, 2020, is a site-specific artwork installed in the tunnel linking the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building and...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Our Glacial Perspective
Hochjochferner glacier in South Tyrol 9 Oct 2020Our glacial perspectives, 2020, a new, permanent, public work of art by Olafur Eliasson will be unveiled on Mount Grawand on 9 October 2020. The...Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: Sometimes the River is the Bridge
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan 9 Jun - 27 Sep 2020The title of the exhibition, Sometimes the river is the bridge , suggests the possibility of bestowing form and function onto formless things—like invisible rivers...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Symbiotic Seeing
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland 17 Jan - 22 Mar 2020At its centre is a large scale installation created exclusively for Zurich that addresses a key issue of our age: the relationship and interplay between...Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: Seeing spheres
Chase Center, San Francisco, California 3 Sep 2019Seeing spheres, 2019, consists of five fifteen-and-a-half-feet-tall polished hydroformed steel spheres that stand in a circle around a central space. Each sphere supports a flat,...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: In real life
Take Modern, London, UK 11 Jul 2019 - 5 Jan 2020The exhibition brings together over 40 works of art made between 1990 and today by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Born in 1967, Eliasson has...Read more
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Ólafur Eliasson: How to build a sphere out of cubes
Texas A&M University, Texas, USA 7 Sep 2018How to Build a Sphere Out of Cubes, 2018, features two open geometric structures, situated at the outer extremes of an elliptical lawn engaging in...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: The unspeakable openness of things
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China 25 Mar - 12 Aug 2018We are pleased to present Olafur Eliasson: The unspeakable openness of things, at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing. This extensive exhibit comprises an...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Reality Projector
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 1 Mar - 15 Aug 2018For his first major exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade, Eliasson has created a spectacular immersive work for the Marciano Foundation's Theatre Gallery....Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: The Parliament of Possibilities
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 28 Sep 2016 - 26 Feb 2017Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is pleased to host The parliament of possibilities, a major solo exhibition by Olafur Eliasson. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is...Read more
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Ólafur Elíasson: Nothingness is not nothing at all
Long Museum, Shanghai, China 20 Mar - 26 Jun 2016The Long Museum, Shanghai, is pleased to announce the first survey exhibition of the work of world-renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Chinese museum:...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Reality Machines (Verklighetsmaskiner)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Oct 2015 - 17 Jan 2016Stockholm’s Moderna Museet and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design present: Reality Machines– a series of colour spectrum installations conceived by Olafur Eliasson. Continuing...Read more -
Ólafur Elíasson: Contact
Fondation Luis Vuitton, Paris, France 17 Dec 2014 - 16 Feb 2015Fondation Louis Vuitton launches the second phase of its inaugural program with an expansive exhibition by Olafur Eliasson, from 17 December 2014 to 16 February...Read more -
Olafur Eliasson: Your Rainbow Panorama
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark 28 May 2011In 2007 Eliasson and his studio won an invited architectural competition with a proposal to transform the rooftop of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, in Denmark,...Read more
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Ólafur Eliasson: SUNSPACE FOR SHIBUKAWA
HARA MUSEUM ARC, JAPAN 10 Oct 2009Situated on the grounds of the Hara Museum ARC, in Shibukawa, Japan, Sunspace for Shibukawa is set against the backdrop of the museum building and...Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: THE PARLIAMENT OF REALITY
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 15 May 2009The parliament of reality nestles gently within the green campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. A ring of trees circumscribes a gathering place...Read more -
Ólafur Eliasson: Umschreibung
KMPF Deutsche Treuhand- Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany 24 Mar 2004Permanently installed in the atrium of an office building in Munich, two spiral staircases interlock with each other, creating a continuous loop in the form...Read more
b. 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in Berlin, Copenhagen and Reykjavik
EDUCATION
1989 - 1995
Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Olafur Eliasson - Your psychoacoustic light ensemble, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, United States
Olafur Eliasson: OPEN, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Your unexpected encounter, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2023
A harmonious cycle of interconnected nows, Azubudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Olafur Eliasson: The curious desert, National Musuem of Quatar, Doha, Quatar
2022
Olafur Eliasson and Claude Monet, The Frick Collection, New York, United States
Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Navigación situada, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Your Light Spectrum and Presence, Tanya Bonkdar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sonnenenergie 22, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2021
Your ocular relief, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Life, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Olafur Eliasson: The Forked Forest Path, Fabrica, Brighton Festival, UK
A View Becomes a Window, Lazano Galdiano Museum, Madrid, Spain
2020
Sometimes the river is the bridge, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Beyond human time, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Symbiotic seeing, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
In real life, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Near future living light, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2019
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, Tate Modern, London, Uk
Y/our future is now, The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Olafur Eliasson: The glacier melt series 1999/2019, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2018
Objets définis par l'activité, Espace Muraille, Genève, Switzerland
Una mirada a lo que vendrá (A view of things to come), Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Reality Projector, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
The unspeakable openness of things, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Olafur Eliasson: WASSERfarben (WATERcolours), Graphische Sammlung - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2017
Olafur Eliasson, Fischli/Weiß, Art Project Ibiza & Lune Rouge, Ibiza, Spain
Olafur Eliasson: Pentagonal landscapes, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finnland
Olafur Eliasson: Green light - An artistic workshop, The Moody Center of the Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Olafur Eliasson: The listening dimension, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Olafur Eliasson: Models for coexistence, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Olafur Eliasson: Multiple shadow house, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Olafur Eliasson: Recalibrating the senses in Oudenburg, Foundation 'De 11 Lijnen', Oudenburg, Belgium
2016
Olafur Eliasson: Green light - An artistic workshop, TBA21-Augarten, Vienna, Austria
Olafur Eliasson: Nothingness is not nothing at all, Long Museum, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Olafur Eliasson Versailles, Palace of Versailles, France
Olafur Eliasson: Notion motion, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2015
Space minding, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Time-sensitive activity, Modern Art Museum, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
We have never been disembodied, Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
Olafur Eliasson: Works from the Boros Collection 1994 - 2015, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Tree of Codes, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA
Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Olafur Eliasson: The collectivity project, The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
Olafur Eliasson: BAROQUE BAROQUE, The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna, Austria
2014
Riverbed, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Olafur Elaisson: Beauty, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Olafur Eliasson, Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, USA
Olafur Eliasson, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China, May
Olafur Eliasson: Dein Ausstellungsguide (Your Exhibitionguide), K20, Düsseldorf, Germany
Eugene Mc Demott Award 2014, Campus Recidency at MIT
Olafur Eliasson: Your successful uncertainty, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2013
Olafur Eliasson: Your orbit perspective, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Olafur Eliasson: Your orbit perspective, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Olafur Eliasson: Den trekantede himmel (The triangular sky), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
Olafur Eliasson: Tiltrú, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Olafur Eliasson: Sua fogueira cósmica (Your cosmic campfire), Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
Olafur Eliasson, Marie-Christine Gennart, Brussels, Belgium
Olafur Eliasson: Eine Feier, elf Räume und ein gelber Korridor, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
2012
Olafur Eliasson: Your uncertain shadow, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Olafur Eliasson: Little Sun, Tate Modern, London, UK
Olafur Eliasson, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
Olafur Eliasson: Volcanoes and shelters, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, USA
Olafur Eliasson: Volcanoes and shelters, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
سفر الظلال في بحر النهار (Shadows travelling on the sea of the day), Northern Heritage sites, Doha, Qatar
Your view matter, A VR artwork by Olafur Eliasson presented by Metapurse & Acute Art
Det lyttende spejl (The listening mirror), commissioned by Ny Carlsbergfondet, Regionshospitalet Gødstrup, Herning, Denmark
Take your time, permanent installation, Luma Foundation, Arles, France
The living observatory, permanent installation, The Art Space 193, Shinsegae Department Store Daejeon, Seoul, South Korea
Your submerged spectator, permanent installation, commissioned by Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
2019
Northwest Passage, MIT.nano Building, Boston, permanent installation, commissioned by MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA
Seeing spheres, permanent installation, commissioned by Chase Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Northwest Passage, MIT.nano Building, Boston, USA
2018
Fjordenhus, commissioned by KIRK KAPITAL, Vejle, Denmark
Overdeepening, permanent installation, commissioned by, Amorepacific Museum of Art, South-Korea, Seoul
SOE Kitchen 101, Marshall House, Reykjavik, Iceland
How to build a sphere out of cubes, commissioned by Texas A&M University, Houston, USA
Ice Watch, Bloomberg Headquarters and Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2017
No future is possible without a past, Bloomberg SPACE, London, United Kingdom, permanent installation, commissioned by Walbrook Square Limited
2016
Vær i vejret, permanent installation, commissioned by Ordrupgaard Museum and Nordea-fonden, Denmark
2015
Cirkelbroen, permanent installation on Christianshavns Kanal, Copenhagen, a gift by Nordea-fonden to the city of Copenhagen
Raum für Bildung und Bilder, permanent installation, commissioned by Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2014
Panoramic awareness pavilion, permanent installation, commissioned by Des Moines Art Center, John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Gravity stairs, permanent installation, commissioned by Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Inside the horizon, permanent installation, commissioned by Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Tree of Codes: A contemporary ballet, commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Paris Opera Ballet, and Sadler's Wells, Manchester, UK. Travelled to Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA
2013
Den trekantede Himmel, permanent installation at Kunsten Museum of Mordern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Wirbelwerk, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich, Germany. Permanent installation
Knowing doing planet, permanent installation, commissioned by Statoil, Sculpture Park Olso, Norway
2012
Little Sun, launched at World Economic Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Your glacial expectation, a collaborative project by Vogt Landscape Architects and Olafur Eliasson, permanent installation, commissioned by Kvadrat, Denmark
The blind pavilion, Red Brick Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dialogues with Turner: Evoking the Sublime, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
Light Sound Senses, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, Austria
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, US
PHANTOM VISION, Light Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Les Mondes imaginaires (Imaginary Worlds), Espace Monte-Cristo - Fondation Villa Datris Paris, France
2023
x+, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin, Germany
Concerning Nature, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Light: Works from Tate's Collection, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Primordial Waters, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France
The Mind's Eye, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Kaleidoscope: Icelandic 21st Century Art, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Visiones expandidas, Fotographía y experimentación, CaxiaForum, Barcelona, Spain
Sonne. Quelle des Lichts | The Sun: Source of Light in Art, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
2022
This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Kinetismus – 100 Years of Electricity in Art, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republik
Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
When The Wind Blows, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abundant Futures, Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Centro de Creacion Contemporanea de Andalucia C3A, Cordoba, Spain
Fault Lines: Art and the Environment, North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Raleigh, NC, USA
2021
Wanderers on the Boundary, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
Ecologies: A Song for Our Planet, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Contemporary optics, Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Eilíf endurkoma / Eternal Recurrence, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
Natureculture, Collection display at Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Light. Works from Tate’s Collection, Museum of Art Pudong (MAP), Shanghai, China; travelled to Seoul Art Museum (SeMA), South Korea
Hyperrealities: Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Nothingtoseeness, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Ivory Press, Neues Museum Berlin, Germany
Nothing is lost. Art and Matter in Transformation, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
Up Close & Personal: The Body in Contemporary Art, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, USA
Time, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
Calder Now, Konsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Light&Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenha
2020
Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Electric, presented by Daniel Birnbaum at Serralves Foundation, Porto
My Carthography. The Erling Kagge Collection, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, travelled to Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France
Mappa Mundi, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Radical curiosity: On the Buckminster Fuller Orbit, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
Bright Golden Haze, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, USA
About Time, White Cube, as part of online exhibition platform, London, United Kingdom
It’s Urgent!, LUMA Arles, France
Local Talents, curated by Thomas Demand, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
The Return of the Real, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA Studio Berlin, A Berghain and Boros Collection collaboration, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Szene Berlin. Berlin kommt nach Niedersachsen. Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano, The Erling Kagge Collection, Museion Bolzano, Italy,
Radical Curiosity: in the Buckminster Fuller Orbit, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
BeZug, Werke der Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland, September
E Luce fu / And light was made, Castello di Rivoli, Italy
2019
Living in a Lightbulb, curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Interaction of colour and form, UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Köln, Germany
The Nature Rules, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The world around you, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
It's Urgent!, Billboards across Denmark, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Borch Editions: 40 years printing workshop, Royal Danish Embassy, Berlin
Art through the stars and planets, Iwami Art Museum, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Sense Me, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, Kolding, Denmark
Eco-visionaries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Water, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Momentum 10: The Emotional Exhibition, Nordic Biennial Of Contemporary, curated by Marti Manen, Moss, Norway
Goethe. Verwandlung der Welt, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Tomorrow is the question, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Europa Endlos, Kunsthale Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blending the quintessence of modern and contemporary art WT, Fondation du musée nichido, Kasama, Japan
Santander Sala de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Tanz. Bewegung. Geste. Bild., Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
2017
Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Colori, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea & Castallo di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Sense of Smell, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Treasures of a Nation. Selected Works from the Collection, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Variable Dimensions. Artist and Architecture, MAAT, Lisboa, Portugal
Auto Vision: Media Art from Nam June Paik to Pipilotti Rist, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Olafur Eliasson: Green light - An artistic workshop, In collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia VIVA ARTE VIVA, Venice, Italy
SUR/FACE, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Olafur Eliasson: Green light - An artistic workshop, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Victory Over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse, KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, August 19 - December 3., J. F. Willumsen's Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark
7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Performing History, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai, China
Art Lesson, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The World is Made of Stories (Works from Astrup Fearnley Collection), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Art and Space, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2016
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2016: Garden in Movement, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Wir suchen das Weite - Reisebilder von Albrecht Dürer bis Olafur Eliasson, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Art Alive, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
The Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then, BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Use of Time, Wege der Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Book beyond Artists: Words and Images, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
Corps Simples / Show me your moves, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain
Panorama, High Line Art, The Diller - von Furstenberg Building, New York, NY, USA
Simple Forms, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Vidéodanse: Le corps en jeu [The Body at Play or The Body in Game], Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Land Möter Vatten / Land Meets Water, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
Love Story: Works from Erling Kagge's Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
The Nordic He(art)beat / Nordic Conteporary Art and Culture, DOMA Art Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
J'aime les Panoramas, appropriations du monde, (MAH), Geneva, Switzerland, travelled to (MuCEM), Marseille, France
Über Wasser. Malerei und Photographie von William Turner bis Olafur Eliasson, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Are you experienced?, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening. A Project by Doug Aitken, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Enlight my Space. Kunst nach 1990, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Eppur si muove (And yet it turns), MUDAM Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée
17, 2016; travelled to Laboratoires de l'art, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, France
IJCAI, 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cycle Music and Art Festival, Kópavogur Art Museum - Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland
Tanz im August, Sammlung Haubrok, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Artists in Their Time, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey
Nuit Blanche Toronto, Union Station - Grand Hall, Toronto
Nature Encounters, The J. F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark
Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Regisseure des Lichts. Von Rembrandt bis Turell, Kunsthalle Bremen, Kupferstichkabinett
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Andersen's Anniversary Show - The Essential Bruce Springsteen, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Die Kräfte hinter den Formen (The Forces behind the Forms), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, travelled to Museums Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
2014
Everybody is Nobody, Fundación Banco Santander, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
The Return of the Real, Olafur Eliasson, Joakim Eskildsen, and Adam Jeppesen, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery & Editions, Berlin, Germany
The Five Senses, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, USA
Designer of the Everyday - Rudolf Steiner, EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland
Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, traveled to Bauhaus Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany
Spuren der Moderne / Traces of Modernism, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Auga Doce, Fundación Cidade da Cultura de Galicia - Museo Centro Gaiás, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Pace Gems: Selection from the Linda Pace Foundation Permanent Collection, SPACE, San Antonio, TX, USA
Saga - Wenn Bilder erzählen. Kunst aus Island, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
The Space: Hack The Space event at Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK
Sculptures and Works on Paper, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany
Iceland: Artists Respond to Place, Katonah Museum of Art, NY, USA
Correspondence, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Gwangju Biennale 2014 - Burning Down the House, South Korea
Somewhere between Creation and Destruction, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA
Schwindel der Wirklichkeit, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Three Narratives, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
Iceland: Artists Respond to Place, Scandinavia House, New York, NY, USA
Die Vogelperspektive, Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Into the Field, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Un Mondo Novo, Espace Louis Vuitton Venice, Italy
2013
Lines. A Brief History, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ground. Materiality no. 2 (earth)/Grundlag. Materialitet no. 2 (jord), Sorø Kunstmuseum, Søro Denmark
Light show, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Yoko Ono. Half-a-Wind Show, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany, travelling to Louisiana Museum in Humlebæk/Denmark; in the Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao/Spain
interferenz_en013, Showroom Berlin, EnBW, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Wirtschaft und Politik, Berlin
Re:emerge - Towards a New Cultural Cartography,Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
Yes Naturally. How art saves the world, Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, Holland
The Insides Are on the Outside / O interior está no exterior, The Instituto Lina Bo e P.M. Bardi / Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil
The Hunter and the Factory, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Fritz Winter. Das Innere der Natur, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Moving. Norman Foster on Art, Carré d'art - Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes, France
Panorama del Paisaje. Fotográfica Bogotá, Museo Nacional de la Fotografia, Bogota, Colombia
Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
El Arte del Presente. Colección Helga de Alvear. Mecenazgo al servicio del arte,CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
Elemental, Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden
ambient, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Conceptual form and material actions, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Do it 2013. A group art show. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Still. Photography at the Museum, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Dobrecen, Hungary
frm vs fnctn nd bck gn, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Fugitive Structures, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation SCAF, Sydney, Australia
Copenhagen 93, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
An Artificial Wilderness. The Landscape in Contemporary Photography, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Station to Station (Project by Doug Aitken), from New York to San Francisco, USA
White, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lightopia, Vitra Design Museum, Wheil am Rhein, Germany
Ante el horizonte / Facing the Horizon, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Centre Pompidou mobile, Musée national d`Art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, King Abdul Aziz Center, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Go! You sure? Yeah. A POOL Exhibition, LUMA /Westbau. Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Distracting surface, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
2012
Neue Realitäten. FotoGrafik von Warhol bis Havekost, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany
Discussing Metamodernism, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
Fresh Widow. Fenster-Bilder seit Matisse und Duchamp, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, K20 Grebbeplatz, Düsseldorf, Germany
Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
SPRINGDANCE 2012, sculptured bodies & body sculptures, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Art in Ethiopia, Goethe-Institut and Modern Art Museum/Gebre Kristos Destra Center, Addis Ababa, travelled to Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
DEAF 2012 (Dutch Electronic Art Festival), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Future Archive, n.b.k. (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Berlin, Germany
The Slide Show. Mekanism Skateboards, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Wonders, Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Sense of Place. European Landscape Photography, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Painting in Space: An Exhibition to Benefit CCS Bard, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Beijing Posthastism, Vitamine Creative Space (The Pavilion), Beijing, China
New Nordic - Architecture & Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nasher Museum of Art, Olafur Eliasson: The uncertain museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Infinite tasks. When art and book unbind each other, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisboa, Portugal
Nam June Paik's 80th Anniversary: Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Art at the Verge of Architecture and Design, Yu-Un, Tokyo, Japan
Portfolio Berlin 02, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Common Ground, La Biennale di Venezia: 13th International Architecture Exhibition
Grenzgänge, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Light and Lightscape, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, USA
Buzz, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
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Frieze London 2024
The Regent's Park 9 - 13 Oct 2024For our Frieze 2024 stand, i8 Gallery presents works by four artists with Icelandic roots central to our program: Ólafur Elíasson, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Eggert Pétursson,...Read more -
CHART 2024
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2024i8 Gallery's presentation at Chart 2024 features artworks by established artists associated with the gallery’s history. The exhibition showcases important works from each artist’s respective...Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Miami Beach Convention Center 6 - 10 Dec 2023i8 Gallery's presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 features artists who are key figures within the gallery's history from past to present.Read more -
Frieze London 2023
The Regent's Park 11 - 15 Oct 2023i8 Gallery's presentation for Frieze London 2023 features artists who are key figures within the gallery's history. Two new works by Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967,...Read more -
Market 2023
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 12 - 14 May 2023i8 Gallery returns to Stockholm for Market Art Fair presenting works by Alicja Kwade, Callum Innes, Ólafur Elíasson, Kristján Guðmundsson, and Yui Yaegashi.Read more -
Market 2022
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 29 Apr - 1 May 2022i8 Gallery returns to Stockholm for Market Art Fair 2022, presenting textile works, photography, prints, sculptures, and works on paper by four gallery artists: Birgir...Read more -
CHART 2021
Copenhagen, Denmark 26 - 29 Aug 2021Watercolours have been a sustained interest of Ólafur Elíasson, which he has used to investigate colour, movement, and time since 2009. The works often conjure...Read more -
The Armory Show 2020
5 - 8 Mar 2020Read more