Víkingur Ólafsson & Olafur Eliasson: Goldberg Variations

Víkingur Ólafsson’s performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations becomes an extraordinary late-night experience in this collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, created for the Lucerne Festival’s Pulse – a mini-festival curated by Ólafsson himself in 2026. The Grammy-winning pianist presents Bach’s vast cycle against the ever-shifting visual universe of Eliasson’s installation The Shadows of Sounds and the Unforeseeable Shapes of Love, which transforms the translucent marble walls of the Piuskirche in Meggen into a constantly changing landscape. At times meditative, at times almost hallucinatory, this remarkable concert invites the audience to lose themselves in Bach’s endlessly unfolding music as never before.