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3/11/2010

Carsten Holler

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Soma. In search of fulfilment, Holler explores the myth of Soma, a salutary potion promising knowledge, immortality, and access to the sphere of the divine. Set against this backdrop, the artist has devised a fantastical scenario that stands at the crossroads between art and science, laboratory and dream, supposed objectivity and heightened subjectivity. An oversized, three-dimensional tableau vivant unfolds before the viewers' eyes as they look down from a tribune.


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How do we achieve enlightenment? What role is science given in our society, and what role myth? Do we need to find alternative categories for experience and alternative approaches to awakening consciousness? These questions are all raised by the artist Carsten Höller (born 1961, in Brussels) in his show in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin.

Höller explores the myth of 'soma' - a drink with healing properties known among Verdic nomads in North India in the 2nd millennium BCE that promised enlightenment and access to the divine sphere, which was commonly used in rituals. The drink's main ingredient is no longer exactly known to us; ethnomycologists and philologists generally posit the fly Amanita mushroom as the substance responsible for its effects. Set against this backdrop, Höller has devised a fantastical scenario that stands at the crossroads between art and science, laboratory and dream, supposed objectivity and heightened subjectivity.

An oversized, three-dimensional tableau vivant unfolds before the viewers' eyes as they look down from a tribune. In the middle of this set-up, a hotel room is perched on a mushroom-shaped platform, giving guests the opportunity to spend the night in the museum and to dive into the world of soma.

The exhibition has been made possible by the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie with support from the Ernst Schering Foundation.

Image: Carsten Höller, Doppelpilzuhr, 2010
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010, Courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin, Foto: Tony Izaaks

Press contact for the exhibition Soma at Hamburger Bahnhof: Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie
Theresa Lucius Phone: +49-(0)30-26394880 Email: presse@somainberlin.org

Opening: Thursday, November 4, 2010, at 8 p.m.

SOMA at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art
Invalidenstr. 50–51, D – 10557 Berlin
Opening Hours:
Mon closed
Tue 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wed 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thu 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Fri 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sun 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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12,- EUR discounted admission 6,- EUR

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