Boijmans TV Raw Material, Carsten Höller

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Maurizio Cattelan: a striking portrait
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Maurizio Cattelan: a striking portrait

Maurizio Cattelan (1960) made this self-portrait in 2002. A hole was made in the floor of the museum hall specially for this installation. With this, Cattelan breaks down the foundations of the museum, both literally and figuratively. The artist enjoys making fun of the museum as an institution. His works explore the borders between legal and illegal, responsible and immoral. In 2002, he exhibited a kneeling figure in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen of Hitler praying. This gave rise to enormous controversy: exactly Cattelan’s intention.
Carsten Höller- jack-of-all-trades
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Carsten Höller- jack-of-all-trades

The artist Carsten Höller (1961, Brussels) has undertaken biological research into the way plants and insects communicate with each other, has organised festivals of Congolese music and has investigated the hallucinatory properties of mushrooms. His work also takes a variety of forms: sculpture, painting, video and installation. Because Höller does not master all the disciplines, he regularly involves other artists and studios to execute the work for him. Many of his works confuse the senses. The artist tries to disturb the spectator’s equilibrium by using flickering light and subtly moving spaces. Carsten Höller exhibited in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (6 February to 25 April 2010).

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Boijmans TV Raw Material, Carsten Höller

The exhibition of Carsten Höller in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen was, in its entirety, based on repetitive division. That led to the title: Divided Divided. In this interview, the artist explains that this principle is not fair, but does offer more possibilities and gives life colour. Whoever lives according to the ‘divided divided’ principle, does not need to make any choices and is satisfied with a little of everything. With his background as biologist, Höller knows an enormous amount about the canaries living in his Canary Mobile: to which breed they belong, how they sing and how you breed them. But what do the birds think of his art? That will always remain a mystery. This interview is a compilation of an interview with Carsten Höller in Boijmans TV (episode 1: opening night), which he gave on the occasion of his exhibition Divided Divided (6 February - 25 April 2010). The interview is supplemented with material which could not, for time constraints, be included in the television programme.