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The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians, and specialised technicians. Since 1997, his wide-ranging solo shows – featuring installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and film – have appeared in major museums around the globe. He represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The weather project, an enormous artificial sun shrouded by mist, in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London, which was seen by more than two million people. In 2014, Contact was the opening exhibition of Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. Verklighetsmaskiner (Reality machines), at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2015, became the museum’s most visited show by a living artist. In 2016, Eliasson created a series of interventions for the palace and gardens of Versailles and mounted two large-scale exhibitions: Nothingness is not nothing at all, at Long Museum, Shanghai, and The parliament of possibilities, at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul. Green light – An artistic workshop, created in 2016 in collaboration with TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), offered a response to the challenges of mass displacement and migration. Eliasson’s site-specific installation Reality projector opened at the Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, in March 2018, the same month as The unspeakable openness of things, his solo exhibition at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing. In 2019, In real life, a wide-ranging survey exhibition of Eliasson’s artistic practice over the past twenty-five years, opened at Tate Modern, in London, before travelling to Guggenheim Bilbao in 2020. Olafur Eliasson: Symbiotic seeing opened at Kunsthaus Zürich in January 2020, and Sometimes the river is the bridge was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from April to September 2020. For the exhibition Life, in 2021, Eliasson removed the glass facade of the Fondation Beyeler, in Basel, Switzerland, and conducted the bright green waters of the existing pond into the museum’s galleries, along with a host of aquatic plants and the odd duck or spider. Eliasson has also produced numerous projects in public space. Green river was carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001. Eliasson designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 together with architect Kjetil Thorsen for London’s Kensington Gardens. The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, were installed along the city’s waterfronts in 2008. Your rainbow panorama, a circular coloured-glass walkway atop ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, opened in 2011. Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, 2011, for which Eliasson created the facades in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, won the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013. For Ice Watch, Eliasson and geologist Minik Rosing brought free-floating icebergs from a fjord outside Nuuk, Greenland, to public squares in European cities (Copenhagen, 2014; Paris, 2015; and London, 2018) to raise awareness of the climate crisis. Fjordenhus in Vejle, Denmark, the first building designed entirely by Eliasson and the architectural team at Studio Olafur Eliasson, was completed in June 2018. On the occasion of the 2020 German Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Eliasson created Earth Speakr together with children around the world and with support from the German Federal Foreign Office; the global artwork invites kids to speak up for the planet. In 2014, Eliasson and his long-time collaborator, architect Sebastian Behmann formed the office for art and architecture Studio Other Spaces to focus on interdisciplinary and experimental building projects and works in public space www.studiootherspaces.net. As a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, Eliasson led the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments; 2009–14), a five-year experimental programme in arts education located in the same building as his studio www.raumexperimente.net. Since 2012, Little Sun, the social business founded by Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen, has produced and distributed solar lamps and chargers for use in off-grid communities, and has worked to spread awareness about the need to expand access to clean, sustainable energy to all www.littlesun.com. In 2019 Eliasson was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for renewable energy and climate action by the United Nations Development Programme. Eliasson lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.

艺术家奥拉维尔-埃利亚松的作品探讨了艺术与整个世界的关系。埃利亚松生于1967年，在冰岛和丹麦长大，1989年至1995年在丹麦皇家美术学院学习。1995年，他搬到了柏林，成立了奥拉维尔-埃利亚松工作室，如今该工作室由一个由工匠、建筑师、档案员、研究人员、管理员、厨师、程序员、艺术史学家和专业技术人员组成的庞大团队。 自1997年以来，他广泛的个人展览--包括装置、绘画、雕塑、摄影和电影--已经出现在全球各大博物馆。2003年，他代表丹麦参加了第50届威尼斯双年展，同年晚些时候，他在伦敦泰特现代美术馆的涡轮大厅安装了 "天气项目"，一个被薄雾笼罩的巨大的人造太阳，有200多万人观看。2014年，《接触》是巴黎路易威登基金会的开幕展览。2015年，在斯德哥尔摩现代美术馆举办的《现实机器》（Verklighetsmaskiner），成为该馆在世艺术家参观最多的展览。2016年，埃利亚松为凡尔赛宫和花园创作了一系列的干预作品，并举办了两个大型展览： 虚无并非一无所有，在上海龙美术馆举办；可能性的议会，在首尔Leeum三星艺术博物馆举办。2016年与TBA21（Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary）合作创建的 "绿光--艺术工作坊"，对大规模流离失所和移民的挑战做出了回应。2018年3月，埃利亚松的特定场地装置《现实投影仪》在洛杉矶马西亚诺基金会开幕，同月，他在北京红砖美术馆的个展《事物的不可言说的开放性》也在此开幕。2019年，在现实生活中，埃利亚松过去25年的艺术实践的广泛调查展览在伦敦的泰特现代美术馆开幕，然后在2020年前往毕尔巴鄂古根海姆。奥拉维尔-埃利亚松：共生之见》于2020年1月在苏黎世美术馆开幕，《有时河是桥》于2020年4月至9月在东京当代艺术馆展出。为了2021年的 "生命 "展览，埃利亚松拆除了瑞士巴塞尔的贝耶勒基金会的玻璃外墙，将现有池塘的翠绿水面引入博物馆的画廊，同时还有大量的水生植物和奇怪的鸭子或蜘蛛。