Olafur Eliasson, the acclaimed Icelandic-Danish artist known for his immersive and nature-inspired installations, has opened his first major solo exhibition in Taiwan at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, reports TaiwanNews.com.tw
Titled Your Curious Journey, the exhibition runs until 21 September 2025. It presents a retrospective of Eliasson’s three-decade career. Seventeen works are on display, including installations, sculptures, paintings, and photography.
Your Curious Journey is part of a five-city tour that began in 2024. It has previously been shown in Singapore and Auckland, and will continue to Jakarta and Manila after its stop in Taipei.
Among the highlights are Beauty, one of Eliasson’s early landmark works featuring a rainbow created by mist and light, and The Last Seven Days of Glacial Ice, a climate-themed piece comprising seven bronze blocks modeled on melting ice fragments from Iceland’s Diamond Beach. Each block is paired with a glass sphere representing the equivalent amount of melted water.
The exhibition emphasizes interaction and perception, inviting visitors to co-create their experience. Eliasson’s artistic approach often incorporates natural elements and scientific phenomena, aiming to make the viewer aware of their sensory relationship to the world.
Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967 and raised in both Iceland and Denmark. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin in 1995. He represented Denmark at the 2003 Venice Biennale and gained international recognition for his large-scale installation The Weather Project at Tate Modern later that year.
Eliasson has also produced several public works around the world, including The New York City Waterfalls and Ice Watch. Since 2019, he has served as a UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for Climate Action.
