Carsten Höller
born 1961
© Carsten Höller, courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin
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Biography
Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a German artist. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.
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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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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.
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Interactive art
Interactive art describes art that relies on the participation of a spectator
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When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean: Alice in Wonderland II
Lewis Carroll demonstrated how inventive one could be with words and their meanings. Since the 1960s artists such as Mel Bochner ...
Tate Papers
Art of Interaction: A Theoretical Examination of Carsten Höller’s Test Site
This paper looks at the interactivity of Carsten Höller’s Test Site 2006, using Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency ...
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Tate Papers no.15: Spring 2011
Tate Papers no.15, Spring 2011 edition, featuring papers on Interpretation; online version
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Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Life (in the Museum?)
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
When David Brewster invented the kaleidoscope in 1816 he created geometric imagery with light. The geometric art that followed played ...
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But is it installation art?
What does the term ‘installation art’ mean? Does it apply to big dark rooms that you stumble into to watch ...
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The legacy of a myth maker: Joseph Beuys
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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Turning the tables
A new exhibition at Tate Modern dares to imagine a better, more democratic world – and perhaps a better way of ...
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