Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) is a world-renowned Icelandic-Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. In 1995, Eliasson graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and opened his own studio in Berlin. Today, Studio Olafur Eliasson employs over one hundred professionals from designers and architects to researchers and technicians. Eliasson himself works in the fields of sculpture, painting, photography, film and installations. His awarded works have been exhibited in places such as the Venice Biennale, London’s Tate Modern, New York’s MoMA, Palace of Versailles and Denmark’s Louisiana Museum. He has also worked as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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