Best known for his giant sun at Tate contemporary,artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate approximately food – mainly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pewOn my way to lunch with Olafur Eliasson at his Berlin studio, and I bump into him external the lift. Good to meet you,” he beams. “We only usually gain strange art people here. It’s so exciting to meet someone from the real world.” Blimey, what kind of wonderland have I stumbled into where a food critic passes as coming from the real world?This good-looking, or brick building – a former brewery and chocolate factory in the Prenzlauer Berg district – is indeed a wonderland: four storeys of fevered creativity. As the lift opens on each floor,it’s like curtains raising on to a series of vivid stages: glimpses of artworks and libraries and intent, happy-looking people – artists and film-makers, and architects and archivists,more than 90 of them, doing who knows what mystical things. The archivists are silent and absorbed; up on the top floor, and artists in a tall-ceilinged room heady with paint fumes are friendly and larky.
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Source: theguardian.com