Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1967 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

1989-95 Royal Academy of Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards

Nomination for The Prize of the National Gallery for Young Art, 2000, Berlin, Germany Nomination for The Art Prize of the Boettcherstraße in Bremen, 1997, Germany The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 1998, Sweden

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001 Project for Garden Hall, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Surroundings Surrounded, ZKM_Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany [catalogue] Your only real thing is time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA [catalogue] The mediated motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria [catalogue]

2000 Surroundings Surrounded, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria [catalogue] The only thing we have in common is that we are different, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan The Curious Garden, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Your intuitive surroundings versus your surrounded intuition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

1999 Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Scotland; De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; [with Job Koelewijn]; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt| M., Germany; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Galleri Ingólfsstraeti, Reykjavík, Iceland

1998 Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Tell Me about a Miraculous Invention, Arhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark Photoworks, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden Aquarium, Galerie Enja Wonnenberger, Kiel, Germany; Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA; Kjarvalstadir Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland [catalogue]; Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland

1997 The curious garden, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen, Denmark Sonnenfenster, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

1996 Your foresight endured, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milano, Italy Tell me about a miraculous invention, Galeri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden; Kunstmuseet, Malmö, Sweden

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

1994 Some People Remember Walking That Night, Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne, Germany No Days in Winter, No Nights in Summer, Forumgallereit, Malmö, Sweden

Selected Group Exhibitions

2001 Black Box, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Freestyle - Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2000 Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Raumkörper, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark Over the edges, SMAK, Gent, Belgium The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Under the same sky, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

1999 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Photography: An Expanded View, Recent Acquisitions, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Landscape: Outside the Frame, MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Sommerens mørke og lyse nætter, Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark

1998 Auf der Spur, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland The 7th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Cool Places, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania New Photography 14, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA The Edstrand Foundation Art Prize 1998, Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Brytningstider, Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Norrkoping, Sweden Pakkus: Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway; Villa Medici, Academie de France de Rome, Rome, Italy Do All Oceans Have Walls?, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany Mai ‘98, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany Nuit blanche, La jeune scène nordique, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Interferencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue] Sightings: New Photographic Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1997 Heaven, P. S. 1, New York, USA 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Trade Routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa Truce, Site-Sante Fe, Santa Fe, USA New Scandinavian Art, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark 3rd Symposium on Visual Arts, LANDART, Amos, Canada Platser, Public Space Projects, Stockholm, Sweden; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

1996 Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue] Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt| M., Germany [catalogue] Remote Connections, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria; Artfocus, Tel Aviv, Israel Views of Icelandic Nature, Kjarvalsstadir Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland The Scream, Nordic Fine Arts 1995-96, Arken Museum, Ishøj, Denmark

1995 Landschaft, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany Campo 95, Venice, Italy; Torino, Italy, Malmö, Sweden, 1996; Curated by Francesco Bonami

1991 Young Scandinavian Art, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen, Denmark

1989 Ventilator Projects, Charlottenborg Konsthall, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Bibliography

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, Cologne, Germany; 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, pp. 189-196; Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Exhibition catalogue, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, UK; Ralf Christofori, The Vitality of Non-Orthogonal Abstraction, in: Raumkörper, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Andreas Spiegl, Olafur Eliasson, Non-Trueness as the Nature of Theatre, in: Afterall, 2, 2000, pp. 99-106; Maren Lübbke, Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded, in: Camera Austria, 71, 2000, p. 61; Markus Wailand, Olafur Eliasson, Neue Galerie Graz, in: Frieze, pp. 127-128; Rochelle Steiner, Wonderland, in: Wonderland, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, USA.

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

1998 Francesco Bonami, Olafur Eliasson, in: Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, London, Phaidon, 1998, pp. 104-107; Simon Grant, Olafur Eliasson, in: Every Day, Catalogue for the 11th Biennale of Sydney, pp. 90-91; Christian Haye, The Iceman Cometh, in: Frieze, May 1998, pp. 62-65; Gregory Volk, On the Edge. Olafur Eliasson: Fire and Iceland, in: Artnews, April 1998, p. 200; Daniel Birnbaum, Openings: Olafur Eliasson, in: Artforum, April 1998, pp. 106-107. Jan Winkelmann, Project: Olafur Eliasson, in: Art + Text, February|April 1998, pp. 44-49; Olafur Eliasson & Barbara Steiner, Gegen die Zeit gehen, in: Kunst Bulletin, January| February 1998, pp. 10-17.

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

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

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