carsten höller: soma
hamburger bahnhof - museum für gegenwart, berlin
on now until february 6th, 2011



within the hamburger bahnhof in berlin, belgian artist carsten höller (b. 1961) has created his most complex and elaborate installation to date.

as one enters the former railway station (now used to house exhibitions of the museum für gegenwart), they are greeted by the sounds of singing canaries, whose songs fill the hall, the faint smell of farm stables lingering in the air. these sensory impressions, hardly what one would expect within a museum space, create a fantastical scenario that will slowly unfold over the course of the winter months.

set against this backdrop, höller has devised a scene that stands at the crossroads between art and science, laboratory and dream, supposed objectivity and heightened subjectivity...





















via designboom