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The award-winning Danish\u2013Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is renowned for his work with sculptures, photography and installation art which explores issues around perception, climate and public response. For the past months he\u2019s been working on his next project called \u201cLife\u201d, at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland this April and has granted In The Studio special access to follow his creative process.

Olafur is on a mission to ensure that he doesn\u2019t pre-empt his audience\u2019s response to the final work- and that includes not releasing much detail about the project beforehand. But, as reporter Neil McCarthy finds out, it involves a major reconfiguration of the gallery \u2013 including removing the famous full-length gallery windows and flooding it with water from the outside lily pond. Reporter Neil McCarthy talks to Olafur at different stages in the execution of the work and also hears from the gallery\u2019s Director Sam Keller about the technical challenges which will need to be overcome to create a work which poses many questions about the nature of space and environment \u2013 and which stays watertight!