Carsten Höller

For Carsten Höller art is a medium through which unique experiences can be generated.

Whether he installs giant slides in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall or places living reindeer, birds and fungi in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum, Höller’s large-scale installations encourage participation and thereby emphasise art’s transformative potential. He applies his scientific background to his artistic practice and investigates the nature of human perception by creating surroundings which turn spectators into participants in what could be described as test sites for the study of human behaviour. His printmaking projects with BORCH Editions are an extension of these investigations in the medium of photogravure.

Carsten Höller, born 1961 in Brussels, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and Biriwa, Ghana. He has been collaborating with BORCH Editions since 2004.