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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Olafur Eliasson

Apr 18 – July 11, 2021
Baselstrasse 101, 4125 Basel, Switzerland

The conceptual Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is concerned with sensorial experience. In 2003, for his installation The Weather Project in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, he created a burning sun that bathed the space in orange. In 2016, he brought waterfalls, fog, and mirrors to the Palace of Versailles, a mesmerizing spatial intervention. In this solo show, which spans Eliasson’s work of 25 years, sculptures, paintings, photography, film, and more are on display. Themes include the human and nonhuman, nature, culture, and societal conditioning. —E.C.

Olafur Eliasson, “Riverbed,” 2014. Installation view. Photo: Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy of the artist; Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.