Olafur Eliasson, perhaps my favourite contemporary artist, has an excellent solo exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, in Berlin, which runs until the 9th of August. Visiting the exhibition was a large motivation for my recent trip to Berlin.
A number of works were on display, all magical, awe-inspiring and breathtakingly simple in their execution. You can read more at the exhibition website.
Below is a video I recorded of one of the pieces, where you travel through two rooms completely engulfed in fog. Lights in the ceiling give the rooms different coloured hues, although you’re not quite sure where the light is coming from and it it can be quite overpowering, in the sense that at times you feel like you are walking directly into a light source. Your fellow exhibition-goers appear from no-where as ghosts. It’s very still and quiet.
I won’t ruin the surprise of the other pieces, but they are also highly experiential and you can’t help but smile and wonder at them. Sadly, video and photographs don’t capture the experience, you really do need to see them first-hand.
Olafur Eliasson’s Innen Stadt Außen from Clint on Vimeo.
All photographs copyright of the artist.
