The Double Club Los Angeles
Presented by Prada Mode
Private event: 7–8 MARCH, 2024
Open to Luna Luna “Forgotten Fantasy” Ticket Holders: 9–10 MARCH, 2024
Prada Mode presents the third edition of The Double Club, a project by Carsten Höller, in collaboration with Luna Luna on March 7 and 8, 2024, at the Luna Luna Studio in Los Angeles, California.
The Double Club Los Angeles centers around a site-specific installation based on several signature tropes of Carsten Höller’s artistic practice — the principle of division and the machinery of fun within carnival aesthetics.
For The Double Club Los Angeles, Höller continues his exploration of doubleness, transforming a vast warehouse in the heart of the Los Angeles Arts District into a fanciful landscape. Höller deconstructs the carnival experience through familiar ride types – carousel, roller coaster, and spinning chair swing — investigating spectacle, fun, and delight through the lens of contemporary art.
Carsten Höller creates experimental installations and sculptures intended to create particular states of mind (excitement and alteration, doubt and confusion), which he calls Influential Environments. Major installations and exhibitions include Synchro System (2000), a site-specific project designed for Fondazione Prada in Milan; Test Site (2006), a series of giant slides installed in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London; Amusement Park (2006), a large installation at MASS MoCA North Adams of full-sized carnival midway rides operating at dramatically slowed speeds; The Double Club (2008–09), a work designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture in the form of a London bar, restaurant, and nightclub; Soma, at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010); Experience at New Museum, New York (2011); Decision at Hayward Gallery, London (2015); Doubt at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016); Y at Centro Botín, Santander (2017); SUNDAY at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City(2019); DAY at MAAT, Lisbon (2021). In 2022, he opened Brutalisten in Stockholm, a restaurant serving brutalist cuisine, where only one ingredient is used to create a certain dish.
Carsten Höller was born in 1961 in Brussels, Belgium to German parents. Höller currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden, and Biriwa, Ghana.
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