Little Sun and Earth Hour 2020 – Let’s come together digitally for us and our planet
On Saturday night, the Little Sun team joins people around the world to celebrate Earth Hour by switching off the lights for the environment. Although all physical events have been canceled, we come together digitally to honor our planet and raise awareness for the urgent need of climate action – now more than ever.
Little Sun and Materials Part 1: The Plastic
We are looking into sustainable material alternatives and conducting R&D projects with different companies to see what the future holds. Read our blog post for an overview of our research!
In real life: Olafur’s exhibition travels from the Tate Modern to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
From July 2019 to January 2020, Olafur returned to the Tate Modern with his exhibition In real life, highlighting the crucial role the environment plays in all our lives. You now have the chance to see the exhibition in Spain, where it is now on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from 14 February until 21 June 2020. Find out more about the exhibition and discover our top 3 favorite artworks!
Little Sun 2019 | A Year in Pictures
New on Netflix: Season two of Abstract: The Art of Design
The new season features some of Olafur’s most amazing works, gives an inside look into the studio and of course explains the vision for Little Sun. Check it out!
Olafur starts Climate Week NYC off with a Little Sunrise
“The eyes of all future generations are upon you” – impressions of the climate strike
From remote islands in the Pacific to the streets of New York, some 5,000 climate strikes happened around the globe on the 20th of September. Read more on our blog!
Little Sun in Conversation: Olafur and Nabil
Watch Olafur and Nabil, our distribution partner in Ethiopia, talk about arts, energy access and global solutions in four unique videos which we shot last month during Nabil’s first visit to Berlin.
Give light to communities in urgent need of clean energy
How Does Solar Power Save Lives?
Bringing together digital health care and solar energy in Zanzibar. Read more about it here.
20 million additional study hours
Little Sun Foundation increases access to education with solar energy. In February 2019, we reached a milestone and equipped all of the school children without electriciy in Kamonyi, Rwanda with our solar lamps. Learn more here.
One million solar lamps worldwide!
Little Sun reaches a milestone by successfully delivering one million solar lamps worldwide
we are celebrating a major milestone in our pursuit of clean energy access for all. The one million solar lamps have created a substantial social and health impact, accounting for 613,523,012 hours of light. As a result, 2,629,384 people now use clean solar energy instead of harmful fossil fuel-based lighting sources. Read more
We are all #ConnectedByTheSun
In 2012, artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen started the Little Sun project and since then, our global team has been working day by day, solar lamp by solar lamp, to bring the sustainable energy and the awesome power of the sun to everyone. Join our solar mission!
Where Little Sun is Making an Impact
"Art helps us identify with one another and expands the notion of 'we' from the local to the global."
Little Sun light is bringing solar energy in more than 10 African countries, including Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana – with many more to come. So far (as of December 2018), we have distributed a total of 838,308 Little Suns worldwide. Of those, over 510,844 lamps went to areas without electricity. And that number is rapidly growing…
