Carsten Höller

Born in Brussels from German parents, Carsten Höller lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and Biriwa, Ghana. Trained as a scientist, his artistic practice explores themes related to perception, experience and the human condition. In works including large-scale installations, he crosses the border of entertainment to blur the lines between art, science and play, encouraging viewers to engage with art in unexpected ways. In The Punktebild series, stemming from an experiment carried out in the 1970s at the University of Uppsala, which aimed to prove that the human eye needs only very few landmarks to discern movement and form, the artist tests the limits of perception and representation.

Höller’s works have been shown internationally over the past two decades, including solo exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan, the ICA Boston, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin , New Museum, New York Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary , Vienna, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence , Museo Tamayo, Mexico City and most recently the Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen.