Under Snyder's direction, the museum has made important acquisitions, among them the Beth Shean Venus (3rd Century CE); the First Nuremberg Haggadah, Germany (ca. 1449); Nicolas Poussin’s Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem (1625); Rembrandt van Rijn’s St. Peter in Prison (1631); Jackson Pollock’s Horizontal Composition (1949); the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art; and Olafur Eliasson’s Your Activity Horizon (2004).
At the time of the new building's opening, the museum's holdings included 1,800 objects, nearly 500 of which were acquired only in 2013, including pieces by John Baldessari, Olafur Eliasson and Dan Flavin.
Olafur Eliasson | Ólafur Arnalds | Jan Eliasson | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson | Ólafur Páll Snorrason | Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson | Ólafur Jóhannesson | Ólafur Haukur Símonarson | Mattias Eliasson |
The wide industrial space has proven to be a worthy backdrop to modern art, with the famous turbine hall hosting artists including Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Ai Weiwei.
It consist of interviews with contemporary artists, critics, and collectors such as Olafur Eliasson, Harald Falckenberg, Damien Hirst, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Marina Abramović, Olaf Breuning, Terence Koh, Genesis P-Orridge, Boris Groys, and Tobias Rehberger.
He curated several one-person exhibitions, including Kai Althoff, Gerard Byrne, Olafur Eliasson, Brian Jungen, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Billy Apple, Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina and Cerith Wyn Evans.
Established in 2009, the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) is an educational research project initiated by Olafur Eliasson, and is affiliated with the College of Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).