Stefanie Hessler Author & Editor

As an artist, Carsten Höller conducts radical experiments. His “Influential Environments” explore alternative scenarios, reimagining possibilities for human behavior and interaction and have been shown in major installations and solo exhibitions internationally over the last two decades. In 2022, he opened his restaurant Brutalisten in Stockholm and presented the third iteration of The Double Club in Los Angeles in 2024. Born in 1961 in Brussels to German parents, Höller currently lives and works in Stockholm and Biriwa, Ghana. Hans Ulrich Obrist is the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first exhibition World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows and has published extensively on art, architecture, and culture. In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence.  Stefanie Hessler is a curator, writer, and editor. She is the Director of the Swiss Institute in New York and was previously the Director of the Kunsthall Trondheim. Hessler has worked with artists such as Korakrit Arunanondchai, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Joan Jonas, Tabita Rezaire, Tomás Saraceno, Jenna Sutela, and Ryan Trecartin at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Ocean Space, Venice; Athens Biennale; Bienal de São Paulo; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art, Recife.