Unspoken Spaces

Olafur Eliasson is an artist known for sculptures and large-scale installations which utilize natural elements, including light, water, fire and wood, often combined to re-create the outdoors inside. Born in 1967 he grew up in Iceland and Denmark. He studied, from 1989 to 1995, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work is represented in public and private collections including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Deste Foundation, Athens and the Tate, London. He represented Denmark in the 2003 Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Berlin.

'It seems incredible that such a staggeringly inventive body of work could be contained, much less summarised, in one tome, but 'Unspoken Spaces' succeeds in being both thorough and highly accessible' - Aesthetica

• Olafur Eliasson: Preface • Projects and Artist’s Statements (c. 55 projects and 35 statements) • Carol Diehl and Terry Perk: Your Geometric Engagement • Lorraine Daston: Dazzled • Alex Coles: The Art-Architecture Ping Pong • Eric Ellingsen: Now Memory Molly Nesbit: An Entry for Olafur Eliasson’s Parliament of Reality • Minik Rosing: Extravagant Parsimony: A Study From Nature • Caroline Jones: Users in the Field Timothy Morton: From Things Flows What We Call Time • Project Documentation Biography