If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.
Olafur EliassonI believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve peopleโ lives.
Olafur EliassonI always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.
Olafur EliassonOver the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.
Olafur EliassonI don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
Olafur EliassonYour rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside โ where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.
Olafur Eliasson