Riverbed is running, tweeted Olafur Eliasson and so it is. A massive riverbed has been installed in Copenhagen's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Taking up a large part of the museum's space, the Danish-Icelandic artist has installed a rocky riverbed all over the floors.

 

Tons of rock have been installed: constructed to be a riverbed for a stream of water that winds through the galleries.

 

Visitors walk (or stumble) along the stones and pebbles that have been piled up, even making the doorways submerged. Just as a river is ever-changing, so is this installation as people make their way through, climbing through the rubble and water.

 

No looking at pictures on the walls here: it's the journey of walking through the stones and paths that becomes the central focus of the experience.

 

It changes the way that one experiences a museum.

 

Olafur Eliasson's work has been concerned with environmental and social issues. He sprang to international fame with his Weather Project exhibition at London's Tate Modern in 2003 when he filled the vast atrium of the gallery with light and mist to replicate the weather seeping into the gallery.