Carsten Höller uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Born in Brussels in 1961 to German parents, he now lives and works between Stockholm, Sweden and Biriwa, Ghana. His major installations include Test Site for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (2006); Aventura Slide Tower at Aventura Mall, Miami (2017), and The Double Club in London (2008/09), which took the form of a bar, restaurant and nightclub designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture. For his exhibition Decision at the Hayward Gallery (2015), he turned the whole building into an experimental parcours with two entrances and four exits, two of them slides.

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Biography

Carsten Höller uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Born in Brussels in 1961 to German parents, he now lives and works between Stockholm, Sweden and Biriwa, Ghana. His major installations include Test Site for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (2006); Aventura Slide Tower at Aventura Mall, Miami (2017), and The Double Club in London (2008/09), which took the form of a bar, restaurant and nightclub designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture. For his exhibition Decision at the Hayward Gallery (2015), he turned the whole building into an experimental parcours with two entrances and four exits, two of them slides. 


Höller’s works have been shown internationally over the last two decades, including solo exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000); Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille (2004); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2008); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010); Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2010); New Museum, New York (2011); Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (2014); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2017); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2019) and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2021). In 2022, he opened Brutalisten, a brutalist restaurant with a minimal amount of ingredients per dish, in Stockholm.

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2023
F, Giant Triple Mushroom (Fly Agaric, Bay Bolete, Plums and Custard), MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2021
P, Day, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisboa
2020
DK, DAC Slide, Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen
2019
DK, Reproduction, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
DK, Behaviour, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg
MEX, Sunday, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
2018
I, Mushroom Mathematics, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
PRC, Method, Galleria Continua, Beijing
I, The Florence Experiment Curated by Arturo Galasino, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
2017
USA, Reason, Gagosian, New York
HK, Double, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
E, Carsten Höller: Y Curated by Vicente Todolì, Udo Kittelmann, Centro Botìn, Santander
N, Carsten Höller. Henie Ostand Sanatorium, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
2016
B, Video Retrospective with Two Light Machines, Mu.ZEE, Ostend
CH, Zoology, Gagosian Gallery, Genève
I, Doubt, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milano
2015
UK, Decision, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, London
ROK, 50%, PKM Gallery, Seoul
2014
AUS, Carsten Höller: Golden Mirror Carousel, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
A, LEBEN, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
B, Hormoon/Hormone, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Bruxelles
D, Vitra Slide Tower, Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein
UK, Gartenkinder, Gagosian Gallery, Frieze 2014, London
2013
RCH, Half Past And Half To, Die Ecke, Santiago
F, Avec, Air de Paris, Paris
2012
S, Carsten Höller & Attilio Maranzano: Memory, Gun Gallery, Stockholm
2011
I, Enel Contemporanea 2011, MACRO, Roma
D, Problemspiel, Herbert-Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster
USA, Cleijne + Gallagher, Curry, Höller, Huyghe, Kusama, Warhol, Wright, Gagosian, Beverly Hills
I, Animals Works, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
USA, Carsten Höller: Experience Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2010
RUS, Giant Triple Mushrooms, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
PRC, The First Beijing Biennial 展览名称: 第一届北京艺术双年展, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing
I, Winter Wunderkammer, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
I, What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Roma
2021
NL, We Are Animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
I, Villa Chiuminatto, Villa Chiuminatto, Torino
KSA, Noor Riyadh, Noor Riyadh, Riyad
2020
DK, Animals in Art, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
2019
PRC, One if by land, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
I, Expanded, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia
2018
D, Ecstasy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
I, Take Me (I'm Yours) Curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Villa Medici, Roma
S, Ten by Ten, CFHILL, Stockholm
S, The Beautiful Escape, CFHILL, Stockholm
D, WELT OHNE AUßEN Curated by Tino Sehgal, Thomas Oberender, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
I, Atlas, Fondazione Prada, Milano
I, Urban Forest, Riso Museum, Palermo
2017
IT, Take Me (I'm Yours) Curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Roberta Tenconi, Pirelli Hangarbicocca, Milano
MC, Poïpoï: Une Collection Privée à Monaco Curated by Cristiano Raimondi, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
B, The Absent Museum, WIELS, Bruxelles
IT, Like A Moth To A Flame Curated by Tom Eccles, Mark Rappolt and Liam Gillick, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
CH, FIRE/WORKS FOR PARKETT by Shirana Shahbazi, Parkett, Zurich
MY, Exquisite Trust (Blindly Collective Collaborations), STPI, Singapore
LB, The Trick Brain Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aishti Foundation, Beirut
2016
S, LIFE ITSELF, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
IE, Still (the) Barbarians, EVA, Limerick City
D, Presently, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
CH, Im Rausch. Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz/ Under the influence. Between the High and the Crash, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen
E, The Slide at Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
USA, Take Me (I’m Yours)., Jewish Museum, New York
MX, Wirikuta (Mexican Time Slip), Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes
MEX, Wirikuta (Mexican Time-Slip) Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes
S, Insomnia, Bonnierkonsthall, Stockholm

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2019
Can Yerebakan, Osman, Wallpaper, April
segno, Feb/Mar
Rysman, Laura, Icon Design, June
2018
Artdaily.org, November
Bonazzoli, Francesca, Corriere della Sera, November 15, 2018
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Garutti, Francesco, Icon Design, May
Rysman, Laura, The New York Times, April
Domus, January
CFHILL, March
2017
Birnbaum, Daniel, Gagosian
Van den Bergh, Jos, Artforum, March
2016
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Designboom, April
Artribune, 7 April
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Bria, Ginevra, Flash Art
Arte, May
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Public collections

Country
Location
Albania
The Centre for Openess and Dialogue,Tirana
Austria
Contemporary, Wien
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art, Wien
Belgium
Vanmoerkerke Collection, Brussel
Denmark
ARoR Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
France
Air De Paris, Paris
Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence
Collection Alain et Didier Krzentowski, Paris
Collection Centre national des arts plastiques - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris
Collection musée d'art contemporain, Marseille
Luma Foundation, Arles
Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfürt
Sammlung Bauschke, Berlin
Hong Kong
K11 Foundation
Italy
ArtePollino un altro Sud, Parco Nazionale del Pollino, San Severino
Fondazione Prada Collection, Milano
Japan
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Norway
Aker House, Oslo
Saudi Arabia
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dhahran
Sweden
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Switzerland
Collection Eric and Suzanne Syz, Geneva
The Netherlands
Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam
Ukraine
Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kyiv
United Kingdom
Cranford Collection, London
Tate, London
United States of America
Collection of the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco

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