Olafur Eliasson

Danish | 1967

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish Postwar & Contemporary photographer who was born in 1967. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Istanbul Modern. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York have featured Olafur Eliasson's work in the past.Olafur Eliasson's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 35 USD to 1,522,455 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2001 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,522,455 USD for Fivefold Eye, sold at Christie's London in 2007. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 39,438 USD, while his sculptures have sold for an average of 38,341 USD.Olafur Eliasson has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for FAD Magazine in March 2025.

Artist's alternative names: 脫lafur El铆asson

Featured for Sale

鈥淛枚kulsgilskvisl鈥� from 鈥淚slandsserien鈥� (The Iceland Series)

鈥淛ökulsgilskvisl鈥� from 鈥淚slandsserien鈥� (The Iceland Series) ,2003

By Olafur Eliasson

Bruun Rasmussen Bredgade

The Light Setup ,2005

By Olafur Eliasson

Bruun Rasmussen Bredgade

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Notable Lots

The Inner Cave ,1998

By Olafur Eliasson

Thirty-Two Works: SERIES - Olafur Eliasson

Thirty-Two Works: SERIES ,2001

By Olafur Eliasson

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Gletscher serien (The Glacier Series) - Olafur Eliasson

Gletscher serien (The Glacier Series) ,1999

By Olafur Eliasson

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鈥淛ökulsgilskvisl鈥� from 鈥淚slandsserien鈥� (The Iceland Series) - Olafur Eliasson

鈥淛ökulsgilskvisl鈥� from 鈥淚slandsserien鈥� (The Iceland Series) ,2003

By Olafur Eliasson

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The Light Setup ,2005

By Olafur Eliasson

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Recent Auction Results

Projekt für Hamburg Kunstverein - Olafur Eliasson

Projekt für Hamburg Kunstverein ,1995

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Stone Series", 1998 ,1998

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Big Stone", 1995 ,1995

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Current Exhibitions

Forever in Motion

Galerie Xippas, Geneva

Geneva | Switzerland

Mar 14,2025 - May 03,2025

Dynamics Of (Dis)order

Kunsthaus Zug

Zug | Switzerland

Aug 25,2024 - May 17,2025

Border Crossings: Contemporary Art from the Zirinsky Collection

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Oberlin | Ohio | USA

Jan 10,2025 - Jun 01,2025

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Articles

ArtDaily 20/04/2025

Stop Drawing. Architecture beyond Representation is the new project by the Department of Contemporary Architecture and Design, directed by Lorenza Baroncelli.

Revista Arta 10/04/2025

In Jean-Paul Sartre鈥檚 existentialist philosophy, memories are not seen as mere reflections of the past, but as elements that can influence and often constrain individual freedom.

Observer 08/04/2025

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa recently celebrated two decades of expansion marked by a narrowly focused curatorial vision shaped by both place and taste.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation artworks that employ elemental materials such as light, water and earth... 鈥�
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Stevenson, Cape Town

鈥� ..Olafur Eliasson is known for his use of colour, light and movement in his intense, experiential, and expansive installations... 鈥�
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Kunsthalle Mannheim

鈥� ..With Your body of work Eliasson, who is well known for his large-scale outdoor sculptures, interventions in urban space, and architectural projects, deliberately inserts his work and the experiences it... 鈥�
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Associação Cultural Videobrasil

鈥� ..seum`s architecture and design galleries, Your mobile expectations is accompanied by a short film focusing on a series of workshops related to the project in the artist`s studio, underscoring Eliasson`s... 鈥�
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SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

鈥� ..Eliasson鈥檚 work often involves industrial materials that, when brought together, create dramatic installations that are as beautiful as they are unexpected... 鈥�
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