Olafur Eliasson will bring his fog tunnel to Tate Modern | Art and design

A blinding fog tunnel of 45 meters, through which few people can walk at any time, must be installed at the Tate Modern, which is part of a huge summer exhibition of the artist Olafur Elibadon.

The Danish-Icelandic artist is best known for installing Weather Project in the gallery's Turbine Hall in 2003. This is one of the most popular installations in the history of the Tate Modern, where people lie down and bask under the false sun.

Titled Your Blind Pbadenger, 2010, the Fog Tunnel will ask questions about the human senses. Elibadon said that people tended to go into the tunnel and immediately thought that they could not see anything.

"Very quickly, you realize, and I think literally, that you are not completely blind after all, you have a lot of other senses that are starting to react," he said.

"This shows that the relativity of our senses is far superior to what we think we have in our ability to recalibrate or at least stop being numb."

Speaking of his installation Weather Project, the artist revealed that some couples had more than enough to get tired. When asked if his work in the fog could be a "tunnel of love", he replied that it was a possibility. "We had opportunities with the Weather Project that I think could be described as love and beyond," he said.

Tate Modern will feature more than 30 works from almost three decades of Elibadon's work on 1,000 square meters of exhibition space.

It will include a version of the Moss Wall, 1994, which features Iceland reindeer moss on a large wall; Your spiral view, 2002, an installation with kaleidoscopic mirrors in which people walk; and Room for one color, 1997, a strangely yellow piece that makes everyone look so yellow.

Beyond the exhibitions, a weekly call on Skype is planned between visitors of the exhibition and his studio.

Elibadon will work with Tate Modern's catering team to offer Terrace Bar a type of organic, vegetarian and ethical food that he and his team eat together daily for lunch.

The artist said he also hoped to "colonize" part of Tate Modern's outdoor space, though some details were kept secret. In December, Elibadon placed 24 large blocks of Greenland ice on the outside of the gallery to highlight the effects of climate change.

Tate Modern exhibition director Achim Borchardt-Hume said the gallery would present the largest ever survey of Elibadon's work. "I think that Olafur's extraordinary work lies in the fact that he condenses very complex ideas into apparently simple and extremely accessible images and experiences."

• Olafur Elibadon: In real life, Tate Modern, July 11 as of January 5, 2020.