Carsten Höller

born 1961

Biography

Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.

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Artworks

Carsten Höller Sliding Doors

2003
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Carsten Höller Untitled

2015

Film and audio

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Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: Carsten Höller - Kinshasa Rumba Brazzaville

Stemming from his recent travels in the Congo Belgian artist Carsten Höller presents a slide lecture in conversation with Gulbenkian ...
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Rethinking Spectacle

This symposium addresses recent claims that contemporary art is 'spectacularised' and increasingly inseparable from the marketing of large-scale museums. But ...
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Vox Pops: Tate visitors

Views from Tate visitors
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Carsten Höller in conversation with Claire Bishop

Carsten Höller disturbs his viewers' assumptions with installations or interactive sculptures that deliberately but often playfully induce doubts and confusion.

Features

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Art Term

Interactive art

Interactive art describes art that relies on the participation of a spectator
Tate Etc

When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean

Sam Thorne

Alice in Wonderland II
Tate Etc

MicroTate 23

Klaus Weber , Ian Collins , Clare Woods and Josephine Meckseper

Reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Tate Papers

Art of Interaction: A Theoretical Examination of Carsten Höller’s Test Site

Mark Windsor

This paper looks at the interactivity of Carsten Höller’s Test Site 2006, using Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency ...
Tate Papers

Tate Papers no.15: Spring 2011

Read about the work of Carsten Höller, Henry Moore and David Musgrave in this issue, along with articles about the ...
Tate Papers

Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Life (in the Museum?)

Anna Dezeuze

Anna Dezeuze, Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Life (in the Museum?); Tate Papers no.8
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The End of perspective?: Symmetry

Vincent PÃ©coil

When David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope in 1816 he created geometric imagery with light. The geometric art that followed played ...
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The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys

Francesco Bonami

Joseph Beuys is considered by some as the most important of the post-war period – a sculptor, performance artist, teacher and ...
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But is it installation art?

Claire Bishop

What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch ...