Carsten Höller. Born in 1961 in Brussels, Höller studied Agronomy at the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel from winter semester 1979/1980 and in 1993 obtained a chair with a thesis on olfactory communication between insects. In the 80s, even during his work as a scientist, began to carry out the experiment, understood as a process, also in artwork. In 1993 Höller exhibited at the "Aperto" section of the Venice Biennale, in 1997 were with Rosemarie Trockel at the X documents with "A house for pigs and people," and in 2005 he represented with Miriam Backström the Swedish pavilion at the Biennale Venice. Other places individually discussed include the New Museum, New York (2011); Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2010); Bregenz Kunsthaus (2008); MASS MoCA, North Adams, EE.UU. (2006); the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille (2004); ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2003), and Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000).
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