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1967 Born in Copenhagen
1989 – 1995 Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen
Lives in Copenhagen and Berlin

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009
Projekt Sammlung (6): Olafur Eliasson: The moving museum, Kunsthaus Zug

2008
50 moons of Saturn, Second edition of the Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte
Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, 2008-09
La naturalesa de les coses / La naturaleza de las coses / The nature of things, Fundació Joan Miró,
Barcelona; and Centre Cultural Caixa Girona – Fontana d’Or, Girona
Spatial vibration: string – based instrument, study II, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Summer solstice, Jarla Partilager, Stockholm
The inside of outside, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

2007
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 2007-08; travelled to The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY, 2008; Dallas
Museum of Art, Texas, 2008-09; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009. Continues to Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009-10.
Your tempo: Olafur Eliasson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 2007-08
Winter solstice, Jarla Partilager, Stockholm, 2007-08

2006
A laboratory of mediating space, Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin
Light lab (test I – XII), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2006-08
Omgivelser, Andersen-S Contemporary, Copenhagen
The endless study, Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler – Privatstiftung, Vienna
Your constants are changing, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Your engagement sequence, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Your uncertainty of colour matching experiment, in collaboration with Boris Oicherman, Ikon Gallery,
Your waste of time, neugerriemschneider, Berlin

2005
Meant to be lived in (Today I’m feeling prismatic), Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena
Notion motion, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005-06
The body as brain, Projekt Sammlung (3), Kunsthaus Zug
The light setup, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; and Malmö Konsthall, 2005-06
Your light shadow, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2005-06

2004
Colour memory and other informal shadows, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Frost activity, Reykjavik Art Museum–Hafnarhús, Reykjavik
I only see things when they move, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Minding the world, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2004-05
Photographs, Menil Collection, Houston
Your lighthouse: Works with light 1991 – 2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

2003
Funcionamiento silencioso, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – Palacio de Cristal, Parque del
Retiro, Madrid
Olafur Eliasson, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Sonne statt Regen, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich
The blind pavilion, Danish Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
The weather project, The Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London, 2003-04
The body as brain: Projekt Sammlung (1), Kunsthaus Zug, 2003-04

2002
Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Olafur Eliasson, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
The cartographic series I + II, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie und Verlag, Berlin, 2002-03

2001
Die Dinge, die du nicht siehst, die du nicht siehst, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Projects 73: Olafur Eliasson; Seeing yourself sensing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001-02
The mediated motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz
The structural evolution project, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana, 2001-02
Your only real thing is time, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

2000
Focus: Olafur Eliasson; Your intuitive surroundings versus your surrounded intuition, Art Institute of Chicago
Olafur Eliasson, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Surroundings surrounded, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; traveled to ZKM – Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, 2001
The curious garden, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Your now is my surroundings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

1999
Yet untitled, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Your circumspection disclosed: A project for the castle, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland

1998
Olafur Eliasson, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Yet untitled, neugerriemschneider, Berlin

1997
The curious garden, Kunsthalle Basel
Your sun machine, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Your windy corner, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm

1996
Tell me about a miraculous invention, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm; and Malmö Konstmuseum
Your foresight endured, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Your strange certainty still kept, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

1995
Eine Beschreibung einer Reflexion, oder aber eine angenehme Übung zu deren Eigenschaften, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Thoka, Kunstverein in Hamburg

1994
Einige erinnern sich, dass sie auf dem Weg waren diese Nacht, Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne
Lilja Lever (Petrun, Vølven), Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen, 1994-95
No nights in summer, no days in winter, Forumgalleriet, Malmö

1992
Expectations, Copenhagen