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Christian Jankowski - Lisson Gallery. Electronic Arts Intermix. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Contemporary Art Daily. Fantastic Nobodies. Shea hembrey. Martyn Reynolds. Carsten Höller. Carsten Höller. Carsten Höller (born December 1961) is a Belgian artist.[1] He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.[2] Early life and education[edit] Born to German parents working for the European Economic Community, Höller grew up in Brussels.[3] He holds a doctorate in agricultural science, specializing in the area of insects' olfactory[4] communication strategies, from University of Kiel;[5] the title of his dissertation is "Efficiency Analysis of the Parasitoids of Cereal Aphids".[6] Only during the late 1980s did he first begin making art.

However, he has been working as a research entomologist until 1994.[7] Work[edit] Höller's artistic practice reflects the interaction between work and public in various ways, sometimes chemically analyzing the nature of human emotions. Select works, projects, and exhibitions[edit] Slides Test Site at the Tate Modern Soma at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2010.