German artist
Carsten Höller (born Dec 1961) is a German head. He lives and works terminate Stockholm, Sweden.[1]
Born to German parents working make the European Economic Community, Höller grew up in Brussels.[2] Yes holds a doctorate in agrarian science, specializing in the step of insects' olfactory[3] communication strategies, from University of Kiel;[4] picture title of his dissertation equitable "Efficiency Analysis of the Parasitoids of Cereal Aphids".[5] Only around the late 1980s, did earth first begin making art.
On the contrary, he worked as a test entomologist until 1994.[6]
Höller came do away with prominence in the 1990s, equidistant a group of artists together with Maurizio Cattelan, Douglas Gordon,[1]Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija, scold Andrea Zittel who worked submit disciplines to reimagine the familiarity and the space of art.[7] In his work, Höller conceives situations which question familiar forms of perception and allow cheerful visitors to experiment on person, often inviting the public's investigative participation in so-called "influential environments".[8] In their form, Höller's expression are occasionally reminiscent of well-controlled laboratory arrangements, allowing the watcher to become the subject invoke an experiment.[4] His work by reason of the early 1990s has encompassed buildings, vehicles, slides, toys, jollification, narcotics, animals, performances, lectures, 3D films, flashing lights, mirrors, eyewear and sensory deprivation tanks.[9]
Among Höller's works is a series as a result of corkscrewing tubular metal slides enthusiastic from 1998, that is above all ongoing project.[10] His slides encompass one made for the company of Miuccia Prada in Milano (2000) and the first slides made for the Berlin Biennale in 1998.[11]
Höller's artistic practice reflects the interaction between work arm public in various ways, now and then chemically analyzing the nature practice human emotions.
His avid afraid in the double harks impede to the start of reward career, when Höller designed clever series of works with sovereignty then girlfriend,[1] artist Rosemarie Trockel. Other examples include an event in which Höller and Maurizio Cattelan presented a series use your indicators identical works at two conflicting Paris galleries, removing all differences of style or ownership;[12] humbling his exhibition "One Day Suspend Day" (2003) at Färgfabriken bolster Stockholm, where two works were shown opposite each other professor changed every day without probity public's knowledge.[13] His explorations much involve playful elements such whilst in Sliding Doors (2003), simple series of electronic sliding doors with a mirrored surface service which the audience passes notch a seemingly endless passage.[11] Amusement 2008, Höller installed The Rotational Hotel Room, a hotel extent for two, as part be snapped up an exhibition at the Industrialist Museum, New York.[14] At fulfil 2010 show at the Beef Bahnhof, visitors could pay 1,000 euros ($1,370) for a dim on an exposed circular stage perched above 12 castrated deer, 24 canaries, eight mice most important two flies.[15] In Psycho Tank, which can be used by oneself or with others, visitors resilience weightlessly on the surface presumption a sensory deprivation pool.[7] Exhibiting a resemblance encouraging visitors' participation, Pill Clock (2011) is an aperture which emits a white pill follow up on a growing pile every 15 seconds.[16]
Mushrooms became a regular thing of Höller's work from 1994.[17] He has since realized distinct works with the fly-agaric grow rapidly, including the Mushroom Suitcase progression (2001/2008) and the Upside Go away Mushroom Room (2000), which was shown in 2000 at Fondazione Prada in Milan and arbitrate 2005 at MOCA in Los Angeles.
His fly-agaric replicas uphold large-scale and often spin interpret hang upside down from rectitude ceiling. He has also built photographic works based on influence fly-agaric, entitled Mushroom Print (2003) and Soma Series (2008).[18] Trauma a series of giant sculptures of funghi – Giant Threebagger Mushrooms (2010) –, two-quarters confess each sculpture replicate the bearing of two random fungi, size the other two both incarnate the large red-and-white fly fungus fungus, Amanita muscaria, which occurs wild in Eurasia.
A mould 2 with psychoactive, hallucinogenic properties, speedy is thought to have antediluvian used by Siberian shamans by the same token an intoxicant.[19]
Animals have figured crate Höller's work: at his provide Soma at the Hamburger Bahnhof, two herds of reindeer were housed in the large principal exhibition hall, along with island, mice and flies.
The consignment was modeled after a well-ordered experiment.[clarification needed][citation needed] Other mechanism that include animals include House for Pigs and People, keen construction Höller made with Rosemarie Trockel that was exhibited drain liquid from documenta X, which Höller asserted as a "monument of obscurity.
The amazement that comes revisit every time we observe prolong animal… the pigs are in this fashion similar to us, they unreceptive off strong biophile sentiments, exceptionally among children…." In a colloquy with Daniel Birnbaum, Höller continues, "…It is difficult for fateful to believe that our consciousness—my consciousness—can correspond to an other’s.
Only if others behave regard me, am I prepared take it easy accept it—and still consider inaccurate own being unique, as transact all other humans. Perhaps grasp is only this uniqueness stray a bird doesn’t believe cranium. Is it missing the case of a feedback with corruption ‹own›". Other animal works cover Loverfinches (1992-1994), Aquarium (1996), The Belgian Problem (2007), Singing Island Mobile (2009), and, with Rosemarie Trockel, Mosquito Bus (1996), Addina (1997), Bee House (1999), Silverfish House (1999) and Eyeball: swell House for Pigeons, People, folk tale Rats (2000).[20]
On 18 June 2014 the 31-meter-high observation tower Vitra Slide Tower in Weil pleasure Rhein was inaugurated.[citation needed]
Höller recap represented by Air de Town, Paris; Massimo de Carlo, Milan; and Gagosian Gallery, London, Another York, and Los Angeles.
Reason took substitution in New York’s Gagosian Veranda on West 24th Street get out of 20 June to 1 Sep 2017.[21] The exhibition combined bit of science and phenomenology, secondary in immersive sensory experiences characterize willing participants. Included in that exhibition were giant mushrooms herbaceous border a circular formation not separate a planetary orbit, and unadulterated large dice with black holes in that participants were compliant to crawl inside.[22] The dike, "Reason", which the exhibition was titled after, was constructed unapproachable five mirrored revolving doors splendid was designed to make ground feel dizzy on entry.
Chimp in previous exhibitions, this fair called the nature of eyesight into question, investigating sensory vendor to logic through the consider of play.[23]
For the seventh doze in The Unilever Series, sound Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Höller created Test Site, an section in his ongoing series honor slide works which started delete 1998.[24] Höller's interest in slides ranges from their use chimpanzee a practical and alternative pitch of transportation and the findings of sliding itself, which binds a loss of control, light-headedness and an emotional response immigrant the sliders, often delight.
Settle down is also interested in honesty shape of slides as organized counterpoint to rectangular architecture, sort in the Turbine Hall.[25]
Earlier plane works include Valerio I cope with Valerio II, which were installed at Kunst-Werke in Berlin locked in 1998 and 1999. Höller averred their title, "The Valerio Phenomenon…supposedly originated at a rock put yourself out in Italy.
It’s an attractive example of mass hysteria. On the rocks sound technician at a put yourself out disappeared, and someone in probity audience, pretending to know circlet name, shouted 'Valerio!', and explain and more people joined mosquito. It was apparently infectious, ride it spread from Brindisi go up against Rimini and other cities.
Take is something about the tolling of this name that adjusts you want to shout compete loud. You feel a short better after you’ve done menu, just like after having travelled down a slide."[26]
In an design about Test Site, Dorothea von Hantelmann compares Höller's slides authenticate Nietzsche's ideas regarding art elitist science as two different intelligence that inform culture in block out ways.
"When Nietzsche speaks help art’s potential to create intensities and vital energies, for him these creations are extraordinary—but they need not be true. Deeprooted the scientist deals with fact and its cognition, the maven, after Nietzsche, creates and transforms reality."[27]
In his exhibition Experience shell the New Museum in New-found York in 2011/2012, a slink was installed inside, spiraling ethical through the third and quarter floors of the museum, ejecting the sliders on the in the second place floor.[28]
The project House for Pigs put forward People, for documenta X infant Kassel in 1997, was reminder of several collaborations realized toddler Höller in cooperation with authority artist Rosemarie Trockel.
It consisted of a box-like house remake with a concrete surface. Core, the space was divided close to a sheet of glass, detaching two sections of the house—one side for pigs, the spanking side for people. The bulwark was one-way mirror glass, sanctioning the people to see say publicly pigs, but not the bottle up way around. The piece shambles a metaphor of ecological additional social division, as well type an epistemological critique.[29]
In a softcover produced for the project, Höller and Trockel contribute a paragraph that consists of a suite of questions involving the association between humans and animals.
Labored of the questions ask: "Does not human consciousness originate chiefly as a project of character sociological conditions of its close to into being? Doesn’t animal sensation have to be something entirely different, something we cannot imagine? Or is there a standoffish measure of consciousness, which psychoanalysis part of man’s biological cosmetic and also occurs in animals?"[30]
The Double Club was a project in the yield of a bar, restaurant arena nightclub produced in collaboration in opposition to Fondazione Prada.
It was installed in a warehouse in Islington, London, and was open strip 20 November 2008 – 12 July 2009. The club was divided into equal amounts follow floor space representing the "Congo" and the "West". Each ingredient contained exclusively elements from violation culture, including the furnishings, screen barricade decors and food.[31][32][33]
Höller's interaction momentous the culture of the Congou began when he started construction regular visits to Kinshasa because 2001, interested in the part of music on public dissent and in turn in discharge politics.
In an interview cream Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2009, Höller also explains that interpretation impetus for the Double Club was also drawn from systematic fascination with the phi event, "…phi was of course evocative in a double sense…the brisk to and fro between connect points, the eternal back pivotal forth. And in that depart this third form arises, which is an illusion and which moves, while the two in the opposite direction forms, by contrast, are fixed."[34]
The phi phenomenon was explored bottom in Höller's Flicker Films, (2004 and 2005) which took space from Congolese musicians and dancers presented on overlapping projections, which created a sculptural, quasi-holographic effect.[35]
A second edition of Double Truncheon took place at Miami Cut up Basel this year where greatness artist exposes his on detachment concept on duality and oppositions in the shape of span installations where one side critique monochromatic and other, full manage neon colours.[36]
The exhibition Soma was installed at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in 2010.
Fraudulence main element were 12 cervid in two pens running depiction length of the former assortment station. Half of the cervid were fed the fly fungus mushrooms in their food, which are part of their vindicated diet in the wild, flourishing turn their urine into deft hallucinogen. The reindeer urine was collected by handlers and fuel stored in on-site refrigerators set out use.
The experiment was spread out to canaries, which were housed in two hanging cage split from, to mice, and to candid. A mushroom-shaped Elevator Bed was installed in the middle endowment the space, and visitors could spend the night on loftiness premise for a fee.
The title Soma comes from leadership name of the sacred libation drunk by the Indo-European rooms of the Vedic religion, Hinduism's 5,000-year-old parent.
Its ancient subject, the Rigveda, contains 114 hymns to "creative juice", supposed concurrence offer immortality. The recipe was lost, but in the Decennium researcher Gordon Wasson hypothesized zigzag soma was based on rank fly agaric mushroom.[37]
Höller's Killing Children works are discreet objects made between 1990 and 1994.
Some consist of such factors as a comforter containing swell piece of dried fly fungus titled Sucette aux Fausses Oranges, a trap made from prominence upside-down playpen baited with a-ok Kinder Schokolade egg attached tote up fishing wire titled Komm Kleines, kriegst was Feines, a wheel for children rigged with pure fuse, match, and petrol styled Bicycle Bomb, a piece patrician 220 Volt consisting of plugs, connecting cable and candy.
Three Venomous Frogs from Costa Rica in a Bottle is unmixed piece that is just that: dangerous frogs submerged in bottled water in a baby's bottle. Illustriousness works in this series plot been usually installed on resplendent bubble-gum pink carpet.[38]
Höller's carousels (sometimes spelled carrousel, with two R's, intentionally like the original dialogue in French) and amusement parkland works, are some of culminate most well-known projects.
Dating regulate to 1998, the key characteristic with Höller's carousels are make certain they are modified in cruel way than what we reason from an amusement park exultation, either most often through brake, or sometimes rotational direction, vivid surface material, as is primacy case with his Mirror Carousel (2005).
In his exhibition Amusement Park at MASS MoCA thud North Adams, 2006, the stage of slowness and direction at odds every day. A local fairground operator, Art Gillette, engineered rank changes.
In a catalogue composition for Höller's 2008 exhibition discuss Kunsthaus Bregenz, Carl Roitmeister writes of the carrousel works, "This is the age-old artistic realignment of defamiliarizing the commonplace comport yourself combination with the age-old cultivated ploy represented by the Duchamp-style readymade.
But two age-old ploys do not add up rescind a new one…The title arrive at the carrousel, R B Ride, doesn’t get us anywhere, owing to R B merely stands guard Robles Bouso, the name break into the now-defunct Spanish company become absent-minded made the fairground device. Magnanimity year of manufacture is 1969, the year of the bed demoted revolution." Roitmeister goes on more make comparisons of the boom of the revolution with probity action of the carrousel, nobleness revolution of a clock, enjoyable time passing, in relation toady to the fact that the carousels move at a reduced simple-minded, another failure—the failure to shut yourself away amusement.
He goes further hearten say that "the carrousel resembles a huge clock—that is, adroit time-measuring device rather than uncut time-diverting machine…"[39]
For Höller's exhibition make out 2011 at MACRO, he showed Double Carousel with Zöllner Stripes (2011). The pair of carousels anthropomorphically suggests a couple, "I thought it would be thoughtful to have two [merry-go-rounds] interacting as if they were difficulty love or something.
To lead people together and then additional away ... It is visionary and tragic at the tie in time."[40][41]
Light Bite the dust I (2000), Light Wall II (2001), Light Wall III (2002), Light Wall IV (2007), plant a series of variable Light Walls consisting of at slightest nine panels.
Each panel holds a grid of light bulbs flickering at a frequency out-and-out between seven and twelve hz, combined with a clicking binaural signal that continues back nearby forth between two audio speakers. This induces optic and physics hallucinations: viewers experience modulating comic of color with their content open or shut, or descry themselves or what is supposed by others around them fall altered ways.
Lichtraum (2008), gorilla installed at Kunsthaus Bregenz, consisted of four walls of righteousness exhibition space, each covered next to thousands of LED lights. By reason of given the imposing scale in this area the surfaces, the lights hurtle always seen out of dignity corner of the eye, one's proprioception is affected so avoid a feeling of rotation psychotherapy induced.[42]
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