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Olafur Eliasson

Geboren 1967 in Kopenhagen, Dänemark Lebt und arbeitet in Berlin

Ausbildung

1989-95 Königlich Dänische Kunstakademie, Kopenhagen, Dänemark

Auszeichnungen

Nominierung für den Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, 2000 Nominierung für den Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, 1997 The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 1998, Schweden

Ausstellungen

Einzelausstellungen

2001 Project for Garden Hall, Museum of Modern Art, New York [USA] Surroundings Surrounded, ZKM_Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe [D] - Kat. Your only real thing is time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston [USA] - Kat.ß The mediated motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz [A] - Kat.

2000 Surroundings Surrounded, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz [A] - Kat. The only thing we have in common is that we are different, CCA, Kitakyushu [J] The Curious Garden, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin [IRL] Your intuitive surroundings versus your surrounded intuition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago [USA]; u.a. IASPIS, Stockholm [S]

1999 Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee [GB]; sowie u.a. De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam [NL]; [mit Job Koelewijn]; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt| M. [D]; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg [D]; Castello di Rivoli, Turin [I]; Galleri Ingólfsstraeti, Reykjavík [IS]

1998 Olafur Eliasson, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig [D] neugerriemschneider, Berlin [D] Tell Me about a Miraculous Invention, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus [DK] Photoworks, Bildmuseet, Umea [S]ß Aquarium, u.a. Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York [USA]; Kjarvalstadir Museum, Reykjavík [IS] - Kat.; Galerie Peter Kilchmann , Zürich [CH]

1997 The curious garden, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel [CH]; Stalke Out of Space, Kopenhagen [DK] Sonnenfenster, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien [A]

1996 Your foresight endured, Galleria Emi Fontana, Mailand [I] Tell me about a miraculous invention, Galeri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm [S]; Kunstmuseet, Malmö [S]

1995 A Description of A Reflection, or a Pleasant Exercise Regarding Its Qualities, neugerriemschneider, Berlin [D]; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart [D] Thoka, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg [D]

1994 Some People Remember Walking That Night, Lukas & Hoffmann, Köln [D]ß No Days in Winter, No Nights in Summer, Forumgallereit, Malmö [S]

Gruppenausstellungen [Auswahl]

2001 Black Box, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern [CH] Freestyle - Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen [D]

2000 Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin [D] Raumkörper, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel [CH] Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek [DK] Over the edges, SMAK, Gent [B] The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London [GB] Under the same sky, Kiasma, Helsinki [FIN]

1999 La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig [I]ß Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York [USA]ß Landscape: Outside the Frame, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge [USA]ß Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg [D]ß Sommerens mørke og lyse naetter, Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus [DK]ß

1998 Auf der Spur, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich [CH] The 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Cool Places, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius [LT] New Photography 14, Museum of Modern Art, New York [USA] The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 1998, Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö [S] XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo [BR]ß Sydney Biennial, Sydney [AUS]ß Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Fridericianum, Kassel [D] Brytningstider, Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Norrkoping [S] Pakkus: Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss [N]; Villa Medici, Academie de France de Rome, Rom [I] Do All Oceans Have Walls?, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany Mai '98, Kunsthalle Köln, Köln [D] Nuit blanche, La jeune scène nordique, Musee d Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris [F] Interferencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid [E] Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam [NL] - Kat. Sightings: New Photographic Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, London [GB]

1997 Heaven, P. S. 1, New York [USA] 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul [TR] Trade Routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg [ZA] New Scandinavian Art, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek [DK] 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, LANDART, Amos [CDN] Platser, Public Space Projects, Stockholm [S]; Kunsthalle Wien, Wien [A]

1996 Manifesta 1, Rotterdam [NL] - Kat. Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt| M. [D] - Kat. Remote Connections, u.a. Neue Galerie Graz, Graz [A]; Artfocus, Tel Aviv [IL] Views of Icelandic Nature, Kjarvalsstadir Museum, Reykjavik [IS] The Scream, Nordic Fine Arts 1995-96, Arken Museum, Ishoj [DK]

1995 Landschaft, u.a. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin [D] Campo 95, Venedig [I]; Turin [I], Malmö [S], 1996; kuratiert v. Francesco Bonami

1991 Young Scandinavian Art, Stalke Out of Space, Kopenhagen [DK]

1989 Ventilator Projects, Charlottenborg Konsthall, Kopenhagen [DK]

Bibliographie

2001 Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded. Essays on Space and Science, edited by Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria and ZKM_Karlsuhe, Germany; my now is your surroundings process as object. Olafur Eliasson, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln; Your only real thing is time, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA [with texts by Jill Medvedow Plaut, Lars Lerup, Jessica Morgan].

2000 Barbara Hess, Nase im Wind, in: Texte zur Kunst, 39, September 2000, S. 189-196; Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Ausstellungskatalog Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, UK; Ralf Christofori, The Vitality of Non-Orthogonal Abstraction, in: Raumkörper, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Schweiz; Maren Lübbke, Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded, in: Camera Austria, 71, 2000, S. 61; Rochelle Steiner, Wonderland, in: Wonderland, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, USA.ß

1999ß Michael Brenson & Madeleine Grynsztejn, Fact and Fiction, in: Artforum, September 1999, S. 67-70; David Birnbaum & Peter Nilsson, Like Virginity, Once Lost: Five Views on Nordic Art Now, 1999, S. 74; Edward Leffingwell, Report From Sao Paulo: Cannibals All, in: Art in America, May 1999, S. 48-55.

1998ß Francesco Bonami, Olafur Eliasson, in: Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, London, Phaidon, 1998, S. 104-107; Simon Grant, Olafur Eliasson, in: Every Day, Catalogue for the 11th Biennale of Sydney, S. 90-91; Christian Haye, The Iceman Cometh, in: Frieze, May 1998, S. 62-65; Daniel Birnbaum, Openings: Olafur Eliasson, in: Artforum, April 1998, S. 106-107; Jan Winkelmann, Project: Olafur Eliasson, in: Art + Text, February|April 1998, S. 44-49; Olafur Eliasson & Barbara Steiner, Gegen die Zeit gehen, in: Kunst Bulletin, January| February 1998, S. 10-17.

1997 Jonathan Crary, Visionary Events, in: the curious garden, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, S. 43-49; Charles Dee Mitchell, Reports From Santa Fe: New Narratives, in: Art in America, November 1997, pp. 43-47; Roxana Marcoci & Diana Murphy, Eve Sinaiko, eds., New Art, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997, S. 51.

1996 Christiane Schneider, Olafur Eliasson, in: Frieze, January|February 1996, S. 77; Francesco Bonami, Olafur Eliasson, in: Flash Art, May|June 1996, S. 105.

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