Your watercolour machine

2006

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 · Distinction

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 · Distinction

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 · Distinction

Telenor Culture Award