Build your vision using just white Lego bricks
Creating a Lego city with Olafur Eliasson's The cubic structural evolution project 2004 / ABS plastic / Purchased 2005.QAG Foundation Grant / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © 2004 Olafur Eliasson / Photograph: J Ruckli © QAGOMA / View full image
As a hands-on opportunity to build a perpetually evolving ‘city of the future’, The cubic structural evolution project 2004 celebrates creativity and collective effort. Since 2005, when it entered the QAGOMA Collection, generations of children and adults have taken up Olafur Eliasson’s invitation to join together and become co‑producers of this work.
You are invited to build your vision of an ideal city using the Lego bricks piled up on and spread over long tables. Your work is modified and elaborated on by subsequent visitors over the course of the exhibition, in an immense collaborative project that is constantly changing and growing, The cubic structural evolution project is transformed every day, and therefore is never finished.
Watch | Thousands of pieces of white Lego are transformed every day
Olafur Eliasson: Presence
6 December 2025 – 12 July 2026
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
Gallery 1.1 (The Fairfax Gallery), Gallery 1.2 & Gallery 1.3 (Eric and Marion Taylor Gallery)
Brisbane, Australia