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Designer
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson (Iceland/Denmark), born in 1967, is an artist who works in a wide range of media, including installation, painting, sculpture, photography and film. Since 1997 his solo shows have appeared in major museums around the world.
Biography
Background
Olafur Eliasson (Iceland/Denmark), born in 1967, is an artist who works in a wide range of media, including installation, painting, sculpture, photography and film. Since 1997 his solo shows have appeared in major museums around the world.
Signature Style
His practice engages with arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability and climate change. He has long pursued geometric investigations of polyhedrons, spheres and curves with his studio team, stemming from a desire to create alternatives to the dominant orthogonal thinking of modern architecture, art and design.
Notable Works
His public art includes The New York City Waterfalls (2008), Your rainbow panorama (2006–11), Ice Watch (2014) and Fjordenhus in Vejle (2018). For Louis Poulsen he conceived the OE Quasi Light.
Legacy
In 2012 he founded the social business Little Sun, which produces solar lamps for off-grid communities, and in 2014 he and architect Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for art and architecture.
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