Carsten Höller: Stockholm Slides

The Outdoor Collection

4.10 2025 – 31.12 2030

Stockholm

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A large-scale artwork by internationally renowned artist Carsten Höller has been installed on the façade of Moderna Museet. Stockholm Slides features two parallel, spiral slides running from the museum’s roof down to Slupskjulsvägen. Go up, slide down, and experience art in a whole new way!

Carsten Höller was born 1961 in Belgium to German parents. He has lived in Sweden for the past 25 years, and more recently also in Ghana and in Italy. 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.

STOCKHOLM SLIDES: HOW TO SLIDE

If you are over 19 years old, you need to buy an entrance ticket to slide.

Pick up a sliding mat on the terrace on floor 4 by the staircase leading up to the slide.
A host will meet you at the top of the slide.
After sliding, step off the slide straight away and place the sliding mat in the container at the bottom.

To use the slide sculpture you need to be at least 6 years old and 1.3 metres tall.
Leave your loose items and bags before sliding. Lockers are available inside the museum on floors 1 and 4.
Do not slide under the influence of alcohol.

Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 13.00–17.00
Stockholm Slides is closed in rainy weather.

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. Carsten Höller himself describes the experience of riding the slide as a controlled fall, a state of “voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind” – borrowing from the sociologist Roger Caillois.

Both tracks of “Stockholm Slide” are approximately 39 metres long and identical, but mirrored. One turns clockwise and the other counterclockwise. Two people can ride at the same time, as in a mirrored choreography. Slide down together or by yourself. The drop height is 15 metres.

About Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller is known for creating participatory artworks that blur the boundary between scientific experiment and sensory play. For almost four …

Biography

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.