Carsten Höller: Two

UCCA Center for Contemporary Art · UCCA Great Hall · Beijing · –

Participatory installations use play and perceptual experiments to explore doubling, time, dreams and shared experience.

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Works (12)

  1. 1. Beijing Dots Carsten Höller · Projectors, lasers, software · 2026 · Courtesy the artist, produced with support from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art — The dots on the floor are waiting for a second player. Alone, the game will not run.
  2. 2. Giant Triple Mushroom Carsten Höller · Fly agaric - Fliegenpilz - Amanita muscaria / Long Net Stinkhorn - Brautschleier Pilz - Phallus indusiatus / Dove-coloured Tricholoma - Seidiger Ritterling – Tricholoma columbetta; aluminum, steel, automotive paint · 2024 · Courtesy the artist and Gagosian — This mushroom, about three metres tall, is really three mushrooms put together.
  3. 3. Dice (Chinese Marble) Carsten Höller · Marble · 2026 · Courtesy the artist, produced with support from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art — A die blown up to room size, its dots turned into holes you can climb through.
  4. 4. Pill Clock (Red and Yellow Pills) Carsten Höller · Gelatin capsules filled with undescribed substance, mechanical drop mechanism, control unit, water dispenser · 2026 · Courtesy the artist, produced with support from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art — Every three seconds, another capsule drops to the floor.
  5. 11. Smell of My Mother Carsten Höller · Solution with reconstructed smell in diffuser under exhibition bench · 2017 · Courtesy the artist — Sit down. What drifts up from under the bench is the smell of the artist's mother.
  6. 6. Tilted Carousel (Five Colours) Carsten Höller · Steel structure, motor, electronic components, light bulbs, painted steel · 2026 · Courtesy the artist, produced with support from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art — A swing carousel so slow it barely seems to move. Once you sit down, you ride a full turn.
  7. 8. Decimal Clock (Salmon Rose and Novial Gold) Carsten Höller · Neon tubes, metal structure, control unit · 2021 · Courtesy the artist and Galleria Continua — A day of ten hours: this clock runs on French Revolutionary time.
  8. 10. “Divisions” series (10A–10J) Carsten Höller · Caravaggio linen canvas, Flashe vinyl paint (ten works) · 2018–2026 · Courtesy the artist — One canvas, halved, then halved again, and again.
  9. 16. Spinning Amanita (Black and White) Carsten Höller · Fly agaric replica, paint, motor, steel, battery, control units, solar panels · 2026 · Courtesy the artist — Spin a black-and-white mushroom fast enough and colour appears in your eyes.
  10. 18. Light Wall Carsten Höller · Light bulbs, control unit, dimmer pack, sound, wooden structural elements; edition of 5 + 2 artist proofs (#5/5) · 2000/2026 · Courtesy the artist — A wall of nothing but white bulbs, yet close your eyes and you see colour.
  11. 20. Sluice Valia Fetisov and Carsten Höller · Glass sliding door mechanisms, motion sensors and electronics, custom software · 2026 · Courtesy the artists, produced with support from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art — Want to get out? Stand perfectly still for thirty seconds.
  12. 21. Twins (Tokyo, New York, Paris, Santiago, Vienna, Belgium, London, Milan, Santander, Beijing) Carsten Höller · Two-channel video loop, black and white, color, sound; duration 20 min · 2005–2018 · Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, and Galleria Continua — A pair of twins, two statements that contradict each other. Which one is true?

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