Carsten Höller

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Carsten Höller (* 1961 in Brussels ) is an object and installation artist .

Test Site , Tate Gallery of Modern Art

Life

From the winter semester 1979/80 onwards, Höller studied agricultural science at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and completed his habilitation in phytopathology in 1993 with a thesis on olfactory communication between insects. In the 1980s, while still working as a scientist, he began to use the experiment as a method in artistic work. As early as 1993, Höller exhibited in the “Aperto” part of the Venice Biennale , at which he finally played in the Swedish pavilion in 2005 together with Miriam Bäckström . 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 that he installed in the turbine hall of the Tate Gallery in London in 2006 , or the animal enclosure in Hamburger Bahnhof in 2010, where paying Guests stayed overnight. The Swedish fashion label Acne exhibited one of its oversized mushroom sculptures in their Los Angeles store in 2013. In June 2014 the 31-meter-high Vitra slide tower designed by Höller was opened in Weil am Rhein . As part of the “survey show” Decision , the London Hayward Gallery showed Höller's works on the topics of perception and decision-making from June 2015.

In 2005, Höller was ranked 40th on the Kunstkompass , and in 2007 ranked 34th. He lives and works in Cologne and Stockholm . Höller prefers to spend the winter months in his holiday home in Biriwa , Ghana, which he owns together with the Cologne video artist Marcel Odenbach . Höller is represented by the Gagosian Gallery in New York .

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  1. ↑ Petra Gördüren, Dirk Luckow (Ed.): Dopplereffekt. Pictures in Art and Science , Kunsthalle zu Kiel January 31 to May 2, 2010. DuMont Buchverlag, Kiel 2010, p. 239.
  2. ↑ Carsten Höller. Short biography in the ifa artist database
  3. ↑ CARSTEN HÖLLER - EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1996 - "Scope" - Main Hall - May 10 - Jul 7, 1996. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Text accompanying "Scope", Vienna Secession 1998.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.secession.at
  4. ↑ Jan Winkelmann: The defector. In: Metropolis M. Tijdschrift over hedendaagse kunst. No. October 5, 1996.
  5. ^ The Unilever Series: Carsten Höller. Text accompanying Tate 2006.
  6. ↑ Charlotte Higgins: Catch the tube at the Tate - it's worth the ride. In: The Guardian. October 10, 2006.
  7. ^ Nicola Kuhn: The museum as a zoo. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 4, 2010.
  8. ↑ Eviana Hartman: In Store | Acne Comes to Downtown LA, Adds to the Neighborhood's Growing Sex Appeal , in the New York Times on December 18, 2013, accessed April 7, 2016
  9. ↑ The Guardian : Artist brings giant slides back to London's South Bank at Guardian.co.uk March 31, 2015, accessed June 2, 2015.
  10. ^ Linde Rohr-Bongard: Art Compass 2007: The 100 Biggests. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Capital.de June 14, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.capital.de
  11. ↑ Dan Crane: Carsten Höller's Cuckoo's Nest at T Magazine in the New York Times, October 7, 2014, accessed June 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ Alice Rawsthorn: Cliff Hanger at W Magazine January 1, 2012, accessed June 2, 2015.
  13. ↑ Carsten Höller at Gagosian Gallery , accessed on June 2, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Höller, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels