Olafur Eliasson

Danish-Icelandic artist (born 1967), known for large-scale installations of light, atmosphere, and geometry.

Eliasson is an internationally prominent contemporary artist whose practice — including works such as The Weather Project at Tate Modern — treats perception, environment, and space as material. His Berlin studio operates as a large interdisciplinary workshop, positioning him in the mold of a "comprehensive designer" who unites art, science, architecture, and geometry.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: influenced-by-fuller. Eliasson's geometric work is directly indebted to R. Buckminster Fuller, reached in large part through his long collaboration with the Icelandic architect and geometer Einar Thorsteinn, who had worked in Fuller's orbit. Thorsteinn brought Fuller-derived spatial and polyhedral models into Eliasson's studio (notably the ongoing "Model room"), grounding Eliasson's spheres, domes, and space-frame structures in the kind of Synergetics-adjacent geometry Fuller pioneered.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• Synergetics (Synergetics) — Fuller's geometry underlying the Fuller-derived models in Eliasson's practice

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.