Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic: Ólafur Elíasson; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish performer known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and ventilate temperature to tally up the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he acknowledged Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. In 2014, Eliasson and his long-time collaborator, German architect Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for architecture and art. Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and unconventional that year installed The Weather Project, which has been described as “a milestone in contemporary art”, 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 in the middle of 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, London, a substitute pavilion designed like the Norwegian architect Kjetil Trædal Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008. He along with created the Breakthrough Prize trophy. Like much of his work, the sculpture explores the common ground in the middle of art and science. It is molded into the fake of a toroid, recalling natural forms found from black holes and galaxies to seashells and coils of DNA.
Olafur was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009 to 2014 and is an complement professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa back 2014. His studio is based in Berlin, Germany.
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