Olafur Eliasson

As Olafur Eliasson (b.1967, Iceland) expresses it himself: Among other things I am preoccupied with what it is that constitutes a space. Is it created through our presence as viewers and the way we perceive it?  How are we integrated in this creative process?  Is essential for me that every single work is given the possibility of evaluating its own position and role in relation to things, people or nature. Therefore my works only exist when there is a viewer present. Which possibilities do we have of perceiving ourselves from
the outside?  In order for us to find directions in something as abstract as society I think we need tools of some sort and art could be such a tool.
(From an interview with the Danish newspaper Politiken, 2002)

In 1995 curator Francesco Bonami invited Eliasson among others to participate in the  exhibition ”Campo” in Venice. The exhibition, which consisted exclusively of photographic works, became the starting signal for a whole new generation of significant artists working internationally.

Olafur Eliasson has his first solo exhibition through Stalke Galleri in 1993, and has been exhibited thrugh all the years from 1990 to 2005.

10 years in Stalke
Prints from Stalke Edition