Rendered image, Carsten Höller Studio 2025 © Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller: Stockholm Slides
The Outdoor Collection
4.10 2025 – 31.12 2030
Stockholm
Carsten Höller was born in 1961, to a German family in Belgium, and has lived in Sweden for the past 25 years and more recently in Ghana. He is known for creating participatory artworks that blur the boundary between scientific experiment and sensory play. He describes his works as “influential environments” – installations that evoke specific states of mind such as exhilaration, disorientation, doubt, joy and fear.
Various types of slides have been part of Carsten Höller’s artistic production since 1998 and have been erected permanently or temporarily in a large number of locations around Europe and the USA. Both tracks of “Stockholm Slide” are approximately 39 metres long and identical, but mirrored. One turns clockwise and the other counterclockwise. The drop height is 15 metres.
Carsten Höller’s “Stockholm Slides” (2025) was purchased in 2025 with donated funds from Klubb Moderna, the Anna-Stina Malmborg and Gunnar Höglund Foundation, as well as from Elin Kling and Karl Lindman, Betty Bonnier Erhag and Stefan Erhag, Mari and Thomas Eldered, Lars Förberg, Renée Aguiar-Lucander, Caroline Chakraborty and Paolo Carfagna, Christel and Peter Engelbert, Sofi and Filip Engelbert, Kim and William Olsson, Selma Olsson Åkefeldt and Per Åkefeldt, Hanaw Rashid and Tom Ljungberg.
With thanks to Lena Patriksson Keller.