London was the third location of Ice Watch. The first instalment opened in 2014 in front of Copenhagen City Hall to mark the publication of the UN Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change by the IPCC. In 2015, Ice Watch Paris, at the Place du Panthéon, accompanied the 2015 COP 21 talks that led to the Paris Agreement.
On the occasion of COP24 in Katowice, Poland, and the third anniversary of the Paris Agreement. In Bankside outside Tate Modern and City of London outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters. From 11 December 2018 until the ice melted.
 
Ice Watch, a major public art installation created by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson and award-winning geologist Minik Rosing highlighting the impact of climate change.

The installation is in two parts: 24 blocks are arranged on Bankside outside Tate Modern, where a major exhibition of Eliasson’s work will open in July 2019, and six blocks are on display in the heart of the City of London outside Bloomberg’s European headquarters.

The blocks of ice were sourced from the waters of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, where they were melting into the ocean after having been lost from the ice sheet. As the ice gradually thaws, members of the public will have an opportunity to encounter the tangible effects of climate change by seeing and feeling the ice melt away. Depending on weather conditions, Ice Watch is expected to be on view in London until 21 December 2018. Any remaining ice will then be taken to local community and cultural institutions as part of an extended educational programme. Studio Olafur Eliasson has partnered with Julie’s Bicycle for the second time to understand and take action to minimise the environmental impacts of Ice Watch.
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​Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Copenhagen between 1989 and 1995. He represented Denmark at the 2003 Venice Biennale and has exhibited his work at numerous international museums. His work is part of private and public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and Tate Modern in London, where his seminal work The Weather Project was exhibited. Eliasson lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.

Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project at Tate Modern, London. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, a survey exhibition organised by SFMOMA in 2007, travelled until 2010 to various venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

As a professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Eliasson founded the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute of Space Experiments) in 2009, an innovative model of arts education. In 2012, he launched Little Sun, a solar-powered lamp developed together with the engineer Frederik Ottesen to improve the lives of the approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide without access to electricity. Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, for which he created the façade in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Award 2013.

Verklighetsmaskiner (Reality machines) at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2015, became the museum’s most-visited show by a living artist. In 2016 Eliasson created a series of interventions for the palace and gardens of Versailles, including an enormous artificial waterfall that cascaded into the Grand Canal.

His other projects include Studio Other Spaces, an international office for art and architecture which he founded in Berlin in 2014 with architect Sebastian Behmann; and Little Sun, a social business and global project providing clean, affordable light and encouraging sustainable development, with engineer Frederik  Ottesen.

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Minik Thorleif Rosing. (b. 1957) Professor of geology at the Natural History Museum, Copenhagen University. He has participated in the geological exploration of Greenland and is world famous for having backdated the origin of life on Earth by several hundred million years.

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Published on: December 26, 2018
Cite: "Ice Watch London by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing " METALOCUS. Accessed
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