Carsten Höller: ‘I don’t want flowers on my food, ever. It disturbs me’
The artist’s new project is a restaurant in Stockholm, with strict, brutalist rules. Just don’t ask for ketchup
February 2020
Very sporish! Why are so many artists mad about mushrooms?
From the film-maker who dresses up as them to the Korean who wants to be devoured by them, we enter the strange and hilarious world of mycology – to meet the artists who are fixated on fungi
August 2018
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‘A menace to life and limb’: the artworks that have injured – and killed
A visitor to an Anish Kapoor exhibition has ended up in hospital after falling into one of his artworks, Descent Into Limbo. But should art be slightly dangerous?
June 2016
Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slide
Carsten Höller has turned Anish Kapoor’s ‘zombie pylon’ into a 178m corkscrew thrill-ride – our architecture critic pulls on his helmet and takes the plunge
May 2016
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Wild walks, slides and crazy golf: art shows to throw yourself into
Stuck for summer fun? Well, why not play golf with Jeremy Deller, spiral down a chute with Carsten Höller, or get lost in Edinburgh’s eerie sculpture park?
April 2016
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Why every British landmark would be improved by a slide
Anish Kapoor has complained the slide added to his Orbit sculpture was foisted on him by Boris Johnson. But we think the London mayor has the right idea
Anish Kapoor says addition to artwork was 'foisted' on him by Boris Johnson
Mayor of London insisted on Carsten Höller slide being built around Kapoor’s Olympic Park sculpture to make it more profitable, artist says
Jonathan Jones on art
If you want to live dangerously, visit an art gallery
Jonathan Jones
It seems Damien Hirst’s leaking vitrines poisoned the air of Tate Modern – but who cares? We don’t expect common sense from artists – we want imagination
June 2015
Carsten Höller: Decision; Duane Hanson – review
Play Carsten Höller's mind games
Hell on wheels: touring Carsten Höller's new show in a runaway bed
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer Photography: May 2015
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Vaginas in Versailles, Julian Opie's genius and flying rocks – the week in art
Carsten Höller exhibition lets visitors bed down for the night at the Hayward
May 2015
Carsten Höller: ‘It is impossible to travel down a slide without smiling’
From the Tate’s helter skelters to upside-down goggles and mushroom-munching reindeer, Carsten Höller is the most exciting of artists. Tim Adams meets him in Stockholm to hear what he plans next
April 2015
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Giant slides, messy beds and the Great Wall of Vagina is back – the week in art
Carsten Holler and Tracey Emin return as Glenn Ligon reflects on African-American experiences. Plus vulva art, selfie museums and the fallout from Fukushima
March 2015
Artist brings giant slides back to London's South Bank
Visitors to Carsten Höller retrospective at Hayward gallery will be able to descend in 15-metre spiral slides commissioned for the exhibition
August 2014
Hayward gallery to host UK's first Carsten Höller retrospective
Exhibition of experimental Belgian artist's works will be the last show before two-year closure of the art gallery
October 2011
Carsten Höller in New York – in pictures
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Carsten Höller in New York: all the fun of the fair
