I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

Eliasson has engaged in a number of projects in public space including the intervention Green river carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 London a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008. Life

Olafur Eliasson born in Copenhagen in 1967 to Icelandic parents studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1989 and 1995. Hundreds of fluorescent lights are installed in the ceiling as a grid of red green and blue zones.

Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light water and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he establiOlafur Eliassond Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson has engaged in a number of projects in public space including the intervention Green river carried out in various cities between 1998 and 2001; the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 London a temporary pavilion designed with the Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen; and The New York City Waterfalls commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008.