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Above/featured: “Aus eigener Kraft”. Photo, 16 Jul 2025 (X70).

Is that red-hot steam?

It’s a warm and breezy summer evening, the colour of the light is illusory, and the blanket of mist is cool on contact.

At the southwest corner of the Am Hof square in central Vienna is the corporate headquarters of Verbund. Installed outside the building is Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s 2008 sculptural work “Yellow Fog“. The open public square becomes the arena to changing light, colour, and transparency; asking questions of perception and perspective. The display occurs every night for an hour after dusk, but not in winter.

Nightly-activated art installation of “Yellow fog” (Olafur Eliasson, 2008) at Verbund corporate headquarters at Am Hof in Vienna. Photo, 16 Jul 2025 (X70).

“Yellow fog” (Olafur Eliasson, 2008). Photo, 16 Jul 2025 (X70).

The very southwest corner of Am Hof in Vienna. Photo, 16 Jul 2025 (P15).

(ENGLISH) “Yellow fog” is an intervention by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. It is his first work in public space in Vienna. Every day at dusk, the façade of the VERBUND headquarters is shrouded in yellow fog, thus changing the perception of the entire plaza ensemble.

(DEUTSCH) “Yellow fog” ist eine Intervention des dänisch-isländischen Künstlers Olafur Eliasson und sein erste Kunstwerk im öffentlichen Raum in Wien. Täglich zur Abenddämmerung steigt an der Fassade der VERBUND-Zentrale gelber Nebel auf und verändert die Wahrnehmung des gesamten Platzensembles.

2-minute video at dusk, 16 Jul 2025 (P15).

Location

Public transport with Wiener Linien: U-Bahn U3 line to station “Herrengasse”. Sculpture installation is in front of the Verbund headquarters at the southwestern corner of Am Hof.

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I received neither pre-visit support nor post-visit compensation from either Verbund or the City of Vienna for this post. I made all media above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime (X70) and an iPhone15 (P15) on 16 July 2025. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-xkk.