This is a list of most of the exhibitions of Olafur Eliasson (born in 1967, Copenhagen).
Solo exhibitions
1994
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen No Days in Winter, No Nights in Summer, Forumgalleriet, Malmö Einige erinnern sich, dass sie auf dem Weg waren diese Nacht, Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne
1995 Eine Beschreibung einer Reflexion oder aber eine angenehme Übung zu deren Eigenschaften, neugerriemschneider, Berlin Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Thoka, Kunstverein in Hamburg Tommy Lund Galerie, Odense
1996 Your Strange Certainty Still Kept, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Your Foresight Endured, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan Tell Me About a Miraculous Invention, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm; Århus Kunstmuseum Malmö Konstmuseum
1997 The Curious Garden, Kunsthalle Basel Your Sun Machine, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen Kunsthalle Levyn, Vienna
1998 Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich Yet Untitled, neugerriemschneider, Berlin Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York Kjarvalsstadir, The Reykjavík Art Museum Aquarium, Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel Fotografier, BildMuseet, Umeå Raum für eine Farbe, Kunsthalle Bremen Tell me about a miraculous invention, Århus Kunstmuseum
1999 Your Position Surrounded and Your Surroundings Positioned, Dundee Contemporary Arts Your Circumspection Disclosed, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin Yet Untitled, Kunstverein Wolfsburg Olafur Eliasson, Job Koelewijn, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam Riflessi di una certa importanza, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan Your Double Day Diary, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main Beauty, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles Galleri Ingólfsstraeti, Reykjavík
2000 Surroundings Surrounded, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz The Only Thing That We Have in Common Is That We Are Different, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Focus: Olafur Eliasson, Your intuitive surroundings versus your surrounded intuition, The Art Institute of Chicago The Curious Garden, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Your Now Is My Surroundings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York Your Orange Afterimage Exposed, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo Your Blue Afterimage Exposed, Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut IASPIS, Stockholm Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2001 Your Only Real Thing Is Time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Mediated Motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz Surroundings Surrounded, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Projects 73: Olafur Eliasson: Seeing Yourself Sensing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Structural Evolution Project, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana Die Dinge, die du nicht siehst, die du nicht siehst, neugerriemschneider, Berlin The Young Land, Barge Project, The Institute of Modern Art, Boston Reykjavík Art Festival, Reykjavík The Cartographic Series I,
2002 Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris The Cartographic Series I+II, Udsigten der aldrig tænker, Galleri Kirke Sonnerup, Såby Overgaden, Copenhagen i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
2003 Delight and Other Luminous Movements, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan The Weather Project, Tate Modern, London The Blind Pavilion, Danish Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale Funcionamiento silencioso, Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Sonne statt Regen, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2004 Ólafur Elíasson: Forgetting, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Ólafur Elíasson: Minding the world, ARoS Århus Kunstmuseum Ólafur Elíasson: Your colour memory, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside I only see things when they move, Aspen Art Museum The Body as Brain. Projekt Sammlung (I), Kunsthaus Zug Your Lighthouse. Works with light 1991–2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Ólafur Elíasson: Photographs, The Menil Collection, Houston Colour Memory and Other Informal Shadows, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Frost Activity, Hafnarhus, The Reykjavík Art Museum
2005 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Malmö Konsthall, Malmö Lunds Konsthall, Lund Ólafur Elíasson, 101 gallery, Reykjavík Ólafur Elíasson: The Colour Spectrum Series, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie und Verlag, Berlin Ólafur Elíasson: Meant to be lived in (Today I feel prismatic), Emi Fontana West of Rome, Los Angeles, [USA]. Ólafur Elíasson: The endless study, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
2006 The Collectivity Project / Fellesprosjektet, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo Your Uncertainty of Colour Matching Experiment (in cooperation with Boris Oicherman), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Your constants are changing, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo Caminos de Naturaleza, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid The endless study, Kiesler Stiftung, Vienna Mediating Space / A Laboratory, Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin Light Lab, Portikus, Frankfurt/ Main The Water Tower Concert. Project Sammlung (4), Kunsthaus Zug Your engagement sequence, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Remagine Large Version, Kunstmuseum, Bonn Your waste of time, neugerriemschneider, Berlin Omgivelser, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen
2008 50 Moons of Saturn, T2 Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy Winter solstice, Equinox, Summer solstice, Jarla Partilager, Stockholm Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munchen The Nature of Things, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Yellow fog, Verbund Collection, Vienna (permanent exhibition) New York City Waterfalls, East River, New York
2007 The shadow studies. Projekt Sammlung (5), Kunsthaus Zug SF MOMA PKM Gallery, Korea Serpentine Gallery
2009 Your chance encounter, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Andersen\\\'s Contemporary, Copenhagen i8 Gallery, Reykjavik The Body as Brain: Projekt Summlung (6), Kunsthaus Zug The parliament of reality: A permanent outdoor installation at Bard College, Bard College, New York Mediating experience: Olafur Eliasson\\\'s books, Biblioteca Universitarua di Bologna, Bologna Sunspace for Shibukawa, permanent installation, Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan Is the sky part of landscape, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Utopia – Olafur Eliasson, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark Multiple shadow house, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Innen Stadt Außen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, as part of the Berliner festspiele, Berlin, Germany Kepler was wrong, Galería Elvira González, Madrid Olafur Eliasson & Ma Yansong: Feelings are facts, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing When rainbows appear, site-commission, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Olafur Eliasson: Notion Motion, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Your black horizon Art Pavilion, with David Adjaye, organized by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Lopud Island, Croatia Olafur Eliasson: Feeling things, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan Cars in rivers, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík
2011 Your emotional future, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine Your rainbow panorama, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Olafur Eliasson: Your body of work, 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, SESC São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Your uncertain shadow, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea Little Sun, Tate Modern, London, UK Olafur Eliasson, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway Volcanos and shelters, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New YorkExhibition page for installation at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY Volcanos and shelters, neugerriemschneider,Interview in ArtInfo Magazine prior to the opening of his sixth show at neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Berlin, Germany
2014 Riverbed, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, DenmarkLouisiana Museum of Modern Art , 20.8.2014 – 4.1.2015 Turner colour experiments, Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries, London, United Kingdom Contact, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2015
Some 40 works from the Boros Collection are shown in the rooms of the Langen Foundation, Museumsinsel Hombroich, Neuss, GermanyHelga Bittner, "Ein Weltstar der Kunst in Hombroich", NGZ Online, April 18, 2015Langen Foundation: Olafur Eliasson: Works from the Boros Collection 1994-2015 Cirkelbroen in Copenhagen, Denmark Time-sensitive activity, Modern Art Museum, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia We have never been disembodied, Mirrored Gardens, Hualong Agriculture Grand View Garden, Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China Werke aus der Sammlung Boros 1994–2015, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany Verklighetsmaskiner, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Baroque Baroque, The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna, Austria
2016
Nothingness is not nothing at all, Long Museum, Shanghai, China Versailles, Palace of Versailles, Paris, France The parliament of possibilities, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea The presence of absence, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2017 Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, CanadaMusée d'art contemporain de Montréal The listening dimension, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, United States of America Models for coexistence, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Maison des ombres multiples, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Recalibrating the senses in Oudenburg, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
2018
Una mirada a lo que vendrá (A view of things to come), Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2019 Tate Modern, London, EnglandIn Tate Modern
Group exhibitions
1989
Ventilator Projects, Charlottenborg Konsthall, Copenhagen
1990 Street Signs, BIZART, Copenhagen
1991 Overgaden, Copenhagen Young Scandinavian Art, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen
1992 Overdrive, 10 Young Nordic Artists, Projektraum, Copenhagen Lightworks, Demonstrationslokalet for Kunst, Copenhagen Paradise Europe, Poster Project, Copenhagen
1993 1700 CET, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen Black Box, GLOBE Kuratorengruppe, Copenhagen Opening Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1994 Europa, Ausstellung Münchner Galerien, Munich
1995 (Landschaft) mit dem Blick der 90er Jahre, Mittelrhein-Museum, Koblenz; Museum Schloss Burgk/Saale; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Kunst & Ökologie, Kunstverein Schloss Plön Campo 95, Corderie dell'Arsenale, Venice; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
1996 Manifesta 1, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands Nach Weimar, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar Alles was modern ist, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main Tolv, Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm Prospect 96: Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Views of Icelandic Nature, Kjarvalsstadir, The Reykjavík Art Museum Provins-Legende, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde Glow: Sublime Projected and Reflected Light, New Langton Arts, San Francisco The Scream: Borealis 8, Nordic Fine Arts, 1995–1996, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Remote Connections, Neue Galerie Graz; Wäino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku; Artfocus, Tel Aviv Campo 95, Malmö Konstmuseum
1997 Été 97, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen 1997, Bonner Kunstverein Heaven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties: 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Trade Routes: 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, SITE Santa Fe Alikeness, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy