Exhibition Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour
Discover why the colour yellow represented courage and renewal in the 19th century, and what this fascinating colour means in the arts.
‘I see red, I see blue, but I experience yellow’. This is the feeling that the colour yellow evokes in artist Olafur Eliasson. Especially for the Yellow-exhibition he brought together several elements from earlier installations to create a site-specific installation. In the exhibition, you can also experience the enchanting Who is afraid yellow flower ball from 2006. Both installations are on display on the first floor of the exhibition.
Experience the sensation of yellow
In the site-specific installation, Eliasson combines Colour experiment no. 78 (2015) with mono frequency lamps from the 1997 work Room for one colour. These lamps emit light as a single wavelength within the yellow spectrum. All colours gradually disappear, except for shades of yellow and black. Eliasson confronts you with the effect of yellow, and invites you to experience the sensation of that colour:
‘Being in a room with yellow light is very intense. Being in one with blue light, we feel it is like sunset or darkness or evening. It is not doing so much. But yellow… yellow is like wow!’