Talks

People Who Shape Our World: Olafur Eliasson

  • April 28, 2009

Ambitious in scale but materially elemental and ephemeral, Olafur Eliasson’s installations, sculptures, and photographs call for nothing less than a full transformation of our understanding of the art experience. In this talk with one of today’s most ambitious and influential artists, Eliasson discusses past projects, collaboration, and his studio and the exhibition as sites of production, among other aspects of his work.

The talk is presented on the final days of the installation of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.

One sphere of yellow and orange light is connected to another sphere of multicolored circles by two larger yellow and orange circles in the dark background.
Olafur Eliasson, Colour space embracer, 2005. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase through a gift of Chara Schreyer and the Accessions Committee Fund; photo: Jens Ziehe; © 2009 Olafur Eliasson.