Ólafur Elíasson Contemporary Artist exhibition September 23 2022 - January 23 2023 Palazzo Strozzi

Olafur Eliasson: contemporary art is coming back to Palazzo Strozzi

From 22 September 2022 to 22th January 2023 Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting the new exhibition by Olafur Eliasson.

Starting from 22 September 2022 to 22th January 2023 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting a major exhibition exploring the art of Olafur Eliasson, one of the most visionary contemporary artists. 

Curated by Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition is a creation of the artist’s direct interaction with the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi. The artist has worked on all of the Palazzo’s Renaissance spaces, from the courtyard to the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina undercroft in a path that features new installations and historic works that combine elements as colour, water, and light to create an interaction with our senses and the Renaissance architecture. The historical and symbolic architecture of the Palazzo is reimagined with installations built around the visitor who becomes an integral part of the artwork.

The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, which opens an exhibition by the artist on 3 November. 

"Olafur Eliasson. Nel tuo tempo": exhibition tickets 

On Destinationflorence.com you can buy the exhibition tickets: first select the time slot, then choose from the full, reduced rate or under 18. 

Olafur Eliasson 

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967) works with sculpture, painting, photography, film, installation, and digital media. His art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self and community. Not limited to the confines of the museum and gallery, his practice engages the public through architectural projects, interventions in civic space, arts education, policy-making, and climate action. 

Since 1997, his wide-ranging solo shows have appeared in major museums around the globe. For the exhibition Life, in 2021, Eliasson removed the glass facade of the Fondation Beyeler, in Basel, Switzerland, and conducted the bright green waters of the existing pond into the museum’s galleries, along with a host of aquatic plants and the odd duck or spider.

Located in Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, art historians, and specialised technicians.