Carsten Höller applies his training as a scientist to his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Major installations include Flying Machine (1996), an interactive work in which viewers are strapped into a harness and hoisted through the air; Test Site (2006), a series of giant slides installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall; Amusement Park (2006), a large installation at MASS MoCA of full-sized carnival midway rides operating at dramatically slowed speeds; The Double Club (2008–09), a work designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture in the form of a London bar, restaurant, and nightclub; and Upside-Down Goggles (2009–11), an ongoing participatory experiment with vision distortion through goggles. Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room, an installation that became a fully operational hotel room by night, was featured in the exhibition theanyspacewhatever at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008–09).

Höller was born in 1961 in Brussels to German parents. Major exhibitions and solo presentations include the Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2003, 2005, 2009, 2015); Half Fiction, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2003); 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008); Experience, New Museum, New York (2011); 11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2013); Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010, 2014); Golden Mirror Carousel, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2014–15); Decision, Hayward Gallery, London (2015); Y, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2017); and Sunday, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2019).

Höller lives and works in Stockholm and Biriwa, Ghana.