Olafur EliassonDanish, 1967Your watercolour machine
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Copenhagen, Denmark
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- KMS8591
In the catalog
Sources
- SMK
- Image: SMK — National Gallery of Denmark — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Olafur Eliasson
The whole life2006
Eye See You lamps for Louis Vuitton and the 121Ethiopia foundation
Commissioned by Louis Vuitton, about four hundred deliberately low-tech lamps — a monofrequency light source and a parabolic mirror — are installed in the stores' Christmas windows, while a lamp titled You See Me goes on permanent display at Louis Vuitton Fifth Avenue in New York. All fees are donated to 121Ethiopia.org, a charitable foundation he initially established with his wife to renovate an orphanage.
2007 · Award
Joan Miró Prize
2007–2010
“Take Your Time” — his first major US survey
SFMOMA, with curator Madeleine Grynsztejn, presents Eliasson's first major survey in the United States, spanning his work from 1993 to 2007; the museum's skylight bridge is turned into the installation “One-way colour tunnel”. The exhibition then tours to the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 in New York (2008), Dallas (2008–2009), Chicago (2009) and Sydney (2009–2010).
2008 · Award
Fritz Winter Prize
April 2009
Opens the Institute for Spatial Experiments
As professor at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2009 to 2014, he founds the Institute for Spatial Experiments (IfREX), which opens in April 2009 within his studio building.
2010 · Award
Telenor Culture Award
