Olafur Eliasson
28 Apr - 09 Aug 2010
© Olafur Eliasson, Spiegeltunnel, 2009, Mirror, Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Inner City Exterior
28 April - 9 August 2010
Inner City Exterior is the first one-man show by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Berlin institution. The theme of the exhibition was suggested by Olafur Eliasson’s close relationship with Berlin – a city in which he has lived and worked for many years. It is also where he has set up his unusually adaptable studio, combining the functions of research, production and teaching.
After numerous international overview exhibitions and projects in such places as London, New York, Kanazawa and Sydney, this exhibition will profit from the fact that Berlin, as a site of constant change, is still open to experiments with architecture and urban structure. Numerous new installations specially made for the exhibition will make the Martin-Gropius-Bau into a showcase for Olafur Eliasson’s work.
Inner City Exterior takes a close look at the relationship between museum and city, architecture and landscape, as well as between space, body and time. The investigations in the museum itself are supported and commented on by ephemeral projects in the public domain, thus linking the Martin-Gropius-Bau to various places inside the city.
The exhibition is being curated by Daniel Birnbaum, critic, exhibitor and rector of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and the contemporary exhibition space Portikus attached to it. In 2009 he was in charge of the art exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Artist and curator have been engaged in a longstanding collaboration in the fields of book publications, exhibitions and projects in the public domain, which goes back to the 90s. Inner City Exterior, which is being specially mounted for the Martin-Gropius-Bau, is their most ambitious cooperation project to date.
Curator Daniel Birnbaum
Inner City Exterior
28 April - 9 August 2010
Inner City Exterior is the first one-man show by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson in a Berlin institution. The theme of the exhibition was suggested by Olafur Eliasson’s close relationship with Berlin – a city in which he has lived and worked for many years. It is also where he has set up his unusually adaptable studio, combining the functions of research, production and teaching.
After numerous international overview exhibitions and projects in such places as London, New York, Kanazawa and Sydney, this exhibition will profit from the fact that Berlin, as a site of constant change, is still open to experiments with architecture and urban structure. Numerous new installations specially made for the exhibition will make the Martin-Gropius-Bau into a showcase for Olafur Eliasson’s work.
Inner City Exterior takes a close look at the relationship between museum and city, architecture and landscape, as well as between space, body and time. The investigations in the museum itself are supported and commented on by ephemeral projects in the public domain, thus linking the Martin-Gropius-Bau to various places inside the city.
The exhibition is being curated by Daniel Birnbaum, critic, exhibitor and rector of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and the contemporary exhibition space Portikus attached to it. In 2009 he was in charge of the art exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Artist and curator have been engaged in a longstanding collaboration in the fields of book publications, exhibitions and projects in the public domain, which goes back to the 90s. Inner City Exterior, which is being specially mounted for the Martin-Gropius-Bau, is their most ambitious cooperation project to date.
Curator Daniel Birnbaum