A huge thank you from the MCA team for taking your time over the past few months. We’ll still be posting bits and pieces (including the competition winner!) here over the next few weeks. Make sure that you take the time to stop by.
Ever since Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opened on December 10, 2009, we have been running a competition that aims to directly connect one of you with Copenhagen, where Eliasson grew up. To enter, all you need to do is see the exhibition (very important!) and then tell us how it made you feel. Here are [...]
Olafur Eliasson’s upcoming exhibition Innen Stadt Außen is especially significant for two reasons. One, because it is his first solo exhibition in a Berlin institution. And two, because it centres on his close relationship with the city in which he works and lives.
This one is for all the New Yorkers out there (or those lucky enough to be visiting the Big Apple in the next week). Tanya Bonakdar Gallery recently opened a new exhibition by Olafur Eliasson titled Multiple shadow house. The namesake work in the exhibition combines Eliasson’s long running fascination with optics, light, colour and… us.
You might have read about Olafur Eliasson’s skateboard collaboration, ‘Your mercury ocean’ (2009) , with Mekanism Skateboards. Now – if you’re headed Japan way – you can see the real thing.
It had collaborated with Philippe Stark and Takashi Murakami, but when fashion house Louis Vuitton commissioned Olafur Eliasson to create a work for its store windows in 2006, it got something entirely different with ‘Eye see you’ (2006).
Toby Chapman was one of the many volunteers who devoted hours to the preparation of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. Here, he provides a brief insight into the process.
Working on the weekend installing Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, MCA’s Install Coordinator, Tony Mighell takes us behind the scenes as the team gets down to the pointy end of installation…
The start of another busy week! MCA’s Install Coordinator, Tony Mighell, posts his behind the scenes diary for Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.
Feelings are facts