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Installation view of Olafur Eliasson s Life installation at the Fondation Beyeler
Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. © 2021 Olafur Eliasson, Photo: Mark Niedermann
Usually when a museum is flooded with water, something has gone seriously wrong. But at the Fondation Beyeler just outside the Swiss city of Basel, the flooding of the museum is all part of the show: a new site-specific installation called
Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
The artist has removed one side of the Renzo Piano-designed building (with the architect’s blessing) and let the feature pond usually separated from the climate-controlled interior by a large glass wall into the museum. Visitors can navigate the waters, which are up to 80cm deep, using a series of walkways that run in and out of the building. At night, the interior is lit up with blue light. ....

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