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Artist Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun Is Teaming Up With Ikea on a New Line of Solar-Powered Products

Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun has big plans. The Danish-Icelandic artist and co-founder of the social enterprise has teamed up with Swedish furniture giant Ikea to research and develop a new line of ...
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‘We Are Living in a Climate Emergency’: Olafur Eliasson on How He’s Using His Tate Modern Show to Combat Earth’s Greatest Crisis

Olafur Eliasson is using his mid-career survey at Tate Modern in London to look forward, not back. Seventeen years after the Danish-Icelandic artist created The Weather Project, which transformed the ...
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Olafur Eliasson's 'Breathing earth sphere' seeks to breathe new life into Shinan County

In the southernmost part of Korea is the country’s largest archipelago, Shinan County. Comprised of roughly 1,025 islands, only 77 are inhabited. The rural region is on the brink of going extinct due ...
CNN

Olafur Eliasson on what art can do to fight climate change

For an artist who deals in ephemera, Olafur Eliasson likes to take the long view. Outside the gallery, he fears humanity is transfixed on now at the expense of tomorrow – and warns that obsession ...
CNN

Olafur Eliasson: The man who creates bold new worlds to remind us we only have one

Olafur Eliasson likes to play with fire – but also ice, light, temperature and pressure. His larger-than-life art installations remix the elements and shock the senses to provoke a reaction, physical ...
PBS

How Olafur Eliasson uses elements of the natural world to see it in new ways

Eliasson is a globally renowned artist who uses elements of the natural world to make us see that world in new ways. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown spoke with Eliasson for our arts and ...