Carsten Holler
Carsten Holler was born 1961 BirthBrussels, Belgium.
Lives and works in HomeStockholm, Sweden.
“You could say that the real material I’m working with is people’s experience”
Categories: Installation art Relational art Sculpture Objects Sao Paulo Biennale Conceptual Art Venice Biennale
Find Carsten Holler books.
Documents of modern & contemporary art.
Market value of Carsten Holler works
Auction information for you to know the prices of Holler's art works. artprice
Carsten Höller disturbs his viewers’ assumptions with installations or interactive sculptures that deliberately but often playfully induce doubts and confusion…
Carsten Höller holds a doctorate in biology, and he uses his training as a scientist in his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships…
Interview
Since the inception of his artistic career in 1988, Cartsen Höller has rejected any specific artistic identity, creating works that range from films, drawings, architectural plans, and photographs, to performances, sculptures, and installations.
Artworks
The project, which is fundamentally experimental in character, challenges the artistic content and its positive contribution to the understanding and dialogue with contemporary expressions of African culture, which is of critical relevance in this moment…
The Double Club: ‘Presenting two types of beauty’ The Double Club is Carsten Höller’s latest installation which takes the form of a bar, restaurant and nightclub – split in two – designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and western culture.
find art prints & posters of Carsten Holler
Carsten Holler (or about) on YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Blogs | Images | Forums | News
To improve the information about the artist or to add comment, log in or sign up for a free account.
art book recommendations |
||||||||
 |
Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
|||||||
 |
South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
|||||||
 |
James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
|||||||
|
||||||||
Add your comment, review or link about the artist.