Ólafur Elíasson

Ólafur Elíasson (fæddur 1967 í Kaupmannahöfn í Danmörku) er dansk-íslenskur listamaður. Ólafur er þekktastur fyrir skúlptúra og umsvifamiklar innsetningar þar sem hann notar frumefni eins og ljós, vatn og lofthita til að auka reynslu áhorfandans af verkinu. Árið 1995 stofnaði hann Studio Ólafs Elíassonar í Berlín sem er tilraunastofa fyrir rýmisrannsóknir. Ólafur Elíasson var fulltrúi Danmerkur á Feneyjatvíæringnum árið 2003 og síðar það ár setti hann upp The Weather Project í The Turbine Hall í Tate Modern, London.

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Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London.

Olafur has engaged in a number of projects in public space, including the intervention Green river, carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008. 2009-2014 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and since 2014 he is an adjunct professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Abeba.