Olafur Eliasson: Next Door

Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno return to Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart: The Rieckhallen were once part of a larger complex of industrial warehouses extending towards Invalidenstraße. Between 2002 and 2013, the five artists had studios here, directly next to Hamburger Bahnhof. Ideas, experiments and works developed in these studios continue to shape their practices today. More than twenty years later, and on the occasion of the museum’s 30th anniversary, Next Door brings their work together again.

For Next Door at Hamburger Bahnhof Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman collaborate on a newly commissioned film referencing Nauman's permanent on-site installation Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care at the end of the Rieckhallen. Thomas Demand floats pavilions across the space, carrying some of his large-scale photographs. Olafur Eliasson translates audio waves into visual phenomena by projecting circles of light that fade in and out in reaction to a composition of sounds. Henrik Håkansson presents a video installation exploring ecological systems focusing on a choreography related to the flap of a butterfly wing, and Tomás Saraceno presents for the first time in over fifteen
years the installation 14 Billions (Working Title) and ongoing research into spider/webs and how to move from arachnophobia to Arachnophilia.