Olafur Eliasson

Exploring the fluid boundaries between nature and culture is Olafur Eliasson's trademark. He is often inspired by nature or natural phenomena from the Icelandic landscape. In the early 1990s, Eliasson began photographing nature during his annual vacations on his childhood island of Iceland. The pictures were taken while he was walking, sailing, climbing or flying. They range from more traditional landscapes to close-ups of moss and glacier ice, often assembled into large series. Olafur Eliasson is one of the world's best-known contemporary artists. His work has been shown in virtually every major art institution around the world, including Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He has made site-specific works in New York and at Versailles in France.