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March 7–10, 2024
Luna Luna, Los Angeles
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Carsten Höller’s The Double Club Los Angeles transforms a vast warehouse in the heart of the Los Angeles Arts District, used by the Luna Luna team to unpack and reconstruct the rides on display in its restaging of the art amusement park, into a fanciful landscape. Now in its third incarnation, Höller’s installation begins with a single floor area and applies the mathematical rule of division by halving the footprint, while doubling it in height, to create nine unique spaces that deconstruct the carnival experience. The four-day event is presented by Prada Mode, in partnership with Luna Luna, and includes musical programming curated by the rapper Drake, who played a major role in bringing Luna Luna to LA, and Höller, who visited the park during its 1987 debut in Hamburg, Germany. The event is free and open to the public on March 9–10 with admission to Luna Luna.

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November 18, 2023–January 30, 2024, 5:30pm–1am daily
Corniche, Abu Dhabi
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Carsten Höller’s Abu Dhabi Dots (2023) is installed on the waterfront in Abu Dhabi as part of the inaugural edition of Manar Abu Dhabi, a festival offering an immersive, multisensory experience to celebrate the natural beauty of the United Arab Emirates. The second installment of the artist’s Dots series, the public light exhibit, which begins each evening at 5:30pm, comprises twenty spotlights in four colors that follow participants’ movements and allow them to play a “reward and punishment” game with one another.

March 28–May 20, 2023
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione, Paris

Carsten Höller’s Giant Triple Mushroom (2023), a two-meter-high sculpture in polychrome aluminum, is on view in the vitrine at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, as part of the artist’s exhibition Clocks at the rue de Castiglione gallery.

The work’s form combines enlarged cross-sections of three different species of mushroom, including the red-capped fly agaric, reflecting Höller’s fascination with the idea that this notoriously toxic and hallucinogenic fungus may have played a role in the development of shamanism, and thus constitutes a link to ancient proto-religious culture. The three species also represent evolutionary time, as the different shapes, colors, and psychoactive ingredients of their fruiting bodies most certainly evolved from those of a common ancestor. Finally, Giant Triple Mushroom resonates with Höller’s continued exploration of doubling and rupture, and hence to the division and subdivision of time that is visualized in the clock works.