Yellow Fog by Olafur Eliasson

VERBUND is showing Yellow fog, the first permanent intervention in public space in Vienna by renowned artist Olafur Eliasson, every day at dusk.

The work was installed together with the artist in 2008 and has been on display for an hour every day at dusk ever since; during the winter months Yellow Fog is not on display due to safety reasons. The work transforms the square and the building into a stage of fog, light and wind.

The installation

When? Every day at dusk for one hour. More infoPDF / 2.0 MB
Note: during the winter months the Yellow Fog is not on display due to safety reasons.

Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna

Design, implementation, organization and maintenance

Michael Benseler, Infrastructure Management and Technology VERBUND
Christian Knechtl, Architect
Theresa Dann, Curatorial Assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION
Mehmet Gützlek, Etrex - lighting, electrical and security technology
Reinhard Ostendorf, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
Ana Sánchez de Vivar, curatorial assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION

View of the VERBUND building in the courtyard. It is dark and Olafur Eliasson's installation transforms the square and the building into a stage of fog, light and wind.

An der Fassade des Hauptgebäudes von VERBUND

Am Hof 6a | 1010 Wien

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Yellow fog by Olafur Eliasson along the façade of VERBUND

Yellow fog

For Olafur Eliasson, fog is a tool for making spatial connections and distances tangible. He chose the color yellow because it is particularly easy to perceive in the dark. Yellow fog thematizes the transition from day to night and subtly draws attention to the change in the rhythm of the day.

The work was first installed in 1998 on the occasion of the exhibition Light x Eight: The Hanukkah Project at the Jewish Museum in New York. Eliasson: "My idea of the potential of light, or of the ephemeral in general, is about how I can bring the communicative quality of a house closer to its function."

The artist

The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the meaning of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today consists of a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, chefs, programmers, art historians and specialized technicians.

Olafur Eliasson

www.olafureliasson.net

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Design, implementation, organization and maintenance

Yellow fog by Olafur Eliasson along the façade of VERBUND

Yellow fog

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Yellow Fog

Retrospect: Exhibitions

Yellow Fog byOlafur Eliasson

The installation

Design, implementation, organization and maintenance

Yellow fog by Olafur Eliasson along the façade of VERBUND

Yellow fog

The artist

feminist avant-garde | perceptionof spaces and places | gender identity and diversity

Yellow Fog by
Olafur Eliasson

feminist avant-garde | perception
of spaces and places | gender identity and diversity