short biography

Ólafur Elíasson (b. 1967 in Copenhagen/Denmark) based in Copenhagen and Berlin, founded his Studio in Berlin in 1995, where he works with a team of over eighty people, including craftsmen, architects, archivists and art historians. Eliasson was known amongst others by The Weather Project (2003) at the Tate Modern and The New York City Waterfalls (2008). His intense experiential, large-scale installations are working with color, light and movement and often convert natural phenomena in unfamiliar contexts. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen.

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collection/s

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa ° ACUTE ART ARCO Foundation Collection ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj ARoS Aarhus Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Atelier Augarten, Wien CAC Malaga CIFO Art Space, Miami DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt EVN Sammlung Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao Esbjerg Kunstmuseum Espacio 1414, San Juan Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Fotomuseum Winterthur Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum ISTANBUL MODERN Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Brumadinho JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION DÜSSELDORF KAT_A, Bad Honnef KIASMA Helsinki Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi Kulturforum Berlin/Gemäldegalerie/Kunstbibliothek/Kupferstichkabinett ' Kunsthalle Bielefeld Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MUSAC Leon Malmö Konstmuseum Middlebury College Museum of Art Mills College, Oakland Museo Jumex, Mexico City Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Musée d´Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) NMAC Foundation, Cadiz National Museum of Photography Copenhagen Nomas Foundation, Rome PinchukArtCentre Kiew REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg Sammlung Boros, Berlin Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Sammlung Haubrok - FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin Sammlung Verbund - Vertikale Galerie, Wien Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Städtische Galerie Nordhorn TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza, Wien Tate Collection The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village UBS Art Gallery, New York Wanas Foundation, Knislinge Zabludowicz Collection, London Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna
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galleries

Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen Carolina Nitsch, New York Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo i8 Gallery, Reykjavik Koyanagi, Tokyo ° neugerriemschneider, Berlin Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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