Olafur Eliasson - Riverbed

The main component of Olafur Eliasson - Riverbed is a giant landscape of stone and water that curls through the museum's South Wing, "affording the viewer the opportunity to think about the aesthetic experience as more than just the encounter between the visitor and works on the floor or walls," per a statement from the museum. The museum goes on to describe the installation as "a radical, site-specific exhibition dealing with the reality of the museum as an institution and physical locality."

Photographs give the perception that the museum's walls and glowing ceiling have been dropped onto an alien landscape. Of course the inverse is true and Eliasson has transplanted the stone into the galleries, creating an "empty landscape [that] can perhaps restore to us a time and space purged of information and meaning," per the museum.

The exhibition also consists of the model room, which Eliasson developed with Icelandic artist Einar Thorsteinn, and three video works (Your embodied garden, 2013; Movement microscope, 2011; Innen Stadt Aussen, 2010) on display in the museum's Large Hall. Not surprisingly, these three films are about movement, just as the landscape inserted into the galleries heightens museumgoers movements across the stones and through the spaces.