Danish/Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson works in a wide range of media, including installation, painting, sculpture, photography, and film. Since 1997, his solo shows have appeared in major museums around the world. As part of his practice, he engages with arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability and climate change. Eliasson’s architectural projects include the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed together with Kjetil Thorsen; Your rainbow panorama, a 150-metre circular, coloured-glass walkway situated on top of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark (2006–11); and Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre (2005–11), which won the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013 and for which Eliasson created the facades in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects. Fjordenhus (Fjord House) is the first building that he has designed entirely by himself with his team at Studio Olafur Eliasson. Situated by the shore of Vejle Fjord in Denmark, it was commissioned by Kirk Kapital to be its new headquarters, and was conceived as a “total work of art”, incorporating site-specific artworks by Eliasson with specially designed furniture and lighting.
