Olafur Eliasson is an artist who brings nature into his art. Without depending on modern technology, he presents the digital visual works with imaginary interactions, image fluidity, and frame destructions. Eliasson was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967 and was influenced by his father to become an artist. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1989 and 1995 and during his years at the Academy, he became fascinated by the nature that surrounded the school. He began incorporating the beauty of nature into his artwork, using light, water, fog, ice, temperature, and other things found in nature to create a truly unique form of modern art. .
In 1995, he founded a studio for architects, scientists, and technicians to prepare the foundation for a collaboration of professionals in these fields. By imitating the repetition, harmony, and unification of nature and by using a variety of mechanical equipment, he changed the art world's perception of sculpture.
Olafur Eliasson calls the audiences' involvement and temporality as the keyword for his art because audiences can experience space and the matrix physically through the aid of the set-ups. He was appointed as the main artist of Venezia Biennale in Denmark in 2003. Also in the same year, he has recorded two million audiences and gained the international fame by having the ˜Weather Project,' in which he set up the gigantic artificial sun at Tate Modern in London. With the thick steam with colored light bulbs and aluminum covering the whole ceilings to reflect lights, he could express the sunset of Northern Europe. This was literally the best work expressing the nature phenomenon. A lot of audiences were fascinated by this work of Eliasson and visited multiple times to find themselves from the deem reflections on the ceiling.
From 2007 to 2008, Eliasson had a long tour from Modern Art Museum of San Francisco, New York Modern Art Museum, PS1 Modern Art Museum, and Dallas Art Museum to prove ability once again.