Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller ( born 1961 in Brussels ) is an object and installation artist.
Life
Höller studied from winter semester 1979/80 in Kiel Agricultural Science at the Christian- Albrechts- University and habilitated in 1993 in phytopathology with a thesis on the olfactory communication between insects. During his work as a scientist, he started in the 80s to realize the experiment as a process in artistic works. Already in 1993, Höller " Aperto " part of the Venice Biennale, from where he eventually in 2005, together with Miriam Bäckström recorded the Swedish pavilion. His works often require the viewer to participate in, to elicit a very direct way, aesthetic or emotional experiences, such as the giant slides, which he installed in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Gallery in London in 2006, or the animal park at the Hamburger Bahnhof in 2010, in the paying guests stayed.
2005 Höller was ranked 40th of Kunstkompass, 2007 to 34th He lives and works in Cologne and Stockholm.