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About German artist, Carsten HÖLLER (b.1961, in Brussels)
Carsten HÖLLER is a German object and installation artist. In the 1980s, while still working as a scientist, he began to realize the experiment as a process in artistic works. As early as 1993, Höller exhibited in the 'Aperto' section of the Venice Biennale, at which he finally took part in the Swedish pavilion together with Miriam Bäckström in 2005. His works often invite the viewer to participate in order to evoke aesthetic or emotional experiences in a very direct way, such as the gigantic slides he installed in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Gallery in London in 2006 or the animal enclosure in the Hamburger Bahnhof in 2010, where paying guests spent the night. In 2013, the Swedish fashion label Acne exhibited one of his oversized mushroom sculptures in their store in Los Angeles. In June 2014, the 31-metre-high Vitra Rutschturm designed by him was opened in Weil am Rhein. As part of the 'survey show' Decision, the Hayward Gallery in London exhibited his works on the themes of perception and decision-making from June 2015. Höller was ranked 40th in the Art Compass in 2005 and 34th in 2007. Carsten HÖLLER lives and works in Cologne and Stockholm and is represented by the Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Books by and about the work of Carsten HÖLLER
- 'Carsten Höller's Spiele Buch' (1998); 'Register' (2002); ' Hans Weigand. Monograph' (edited by Carsten HÖLLER, 2005); 'Carsten Höller. One Day One Day' (2006, ed. by Jan Åman & Nathalie Ergino); 'Test Site' (2007); Dopplereffekt. Images in Art and Science' (2010, edited by Petra Gördüren & Dirk Luckow);
Awards
- 1989: Gottfried Brockmann Prize of the City of Kiel;
1995: Peter Mertes Scholarship from the Bonner Kunstverein;
1996: German Critics' Prize for the visual arts;
2022: Prize for Tropical Ornithology of the Society for Tropical Ornithology;
Exhibitions
- 1993: 'Venice Biennale' (Aperto);
1997: 'A House for Pigs and People', documenta X, Kassel (together with Rosemarie Trockel);
2000: 'Augapfel. Haus für Taube, Mensch und Ratte', Expo 2000, Hanover (together with Rosemarie Trockel); 'Synchro System', Fondazione Prada, Milan;
2003: 'Half Fiction', The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston;
2005: 'Venice Biennale. Swedish Pavilion' (together with Miriam Bäckström);
2006: 'Test Site', Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London;
2008: 'The Double Club', Fondazione Prada, Milan;
2010: 'Divided Divides', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; 'Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald', Projektraum Schering Stiftung, Berlin; 'SOMA', Hamburger Bahnhof. Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin;
2011: 'Experience at the New Museum', New York;
2014: 'Life', Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary 21, Vienna;
2015: 'Venice Biennale. Belgian and Swedish Pavilion' (together with Måns Månsson); 'Decision', Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre, London;
2017: 'Double', Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong;
2018: 'Method', Galleria Continua, Beijing;
2019: 'Reproduction', Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen;