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20/11/2008

Carsten Holler

The Double Club, London

The Double Club is a Carsten Höller art project by Fondazione Prada.
Located in an old Victorian warehouse just beside the Angel tube station, The Double Club opened on 21 November 2008, offering a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality, as well as creating a dialogue between Congolese and Western contemporary music, lifestyle, arts and design.

Open for a limited duration of 6 months, The Double Club is not only a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that facilitates the cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion.

The Double Club consists of three spaces: Bar, Restaurant and Dance Club. Each space is divided into equally sized Western and Congolese parts on a decorative and functional level, generating an inspiring perspective on double identity as well as on cultural coexistence.
The different sections have been conceived and designed to represent the most challenging elements of both cultures, encompassing music, food and visual aesthetics.
The project, which is fundamentally experimental in character and with 50% of the profit donated to City of Joy/UNICEF, challenges the artistic content and its positive contribution to the understanding and dialogue with contemporary expressions of African culture, which is of critical relevance in this moment.

Artist:
Carsten Höller
Carsten Höller (b. Brussels, 1961) is a German artist working and living in Stockholm, Sweden, whose recent installations include Test Site, the giant slides at Tate Modern in London (2006-07) as well as Revolving Hotel Room at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2008).

Design West:
Clemens Weisshaar, Reed Kram
Carsten Höller invited Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to join him in the design of the Western sections of the Double Club. Their office, KRAM/WEISSHHAAR engages in the design of spaces, products and media and their work is included in design collections worldwide such as the Museum Of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Project director:
Jan Kennedy
Jan Kennedy has been consulting on special projects for Prada for over ten years. In 1995 he opened the acclaimed Michelin starred restaurant Quo Vadis, before opening the seminal Pharmacy with Damien Hirst in 1998. He was the co-founder of the legendary dance music club We Love Sundays at Space (Ibiza).

Operating partner food—beverage, music:
Mourad Mazouz
Mourad Mazouz is the Operating Partner and host of The Double Club. He is the founder of successful restaurants in London such as Momo Restaurant Familial and Sketch, as well as 404 in Paris and Almaz by Momo in Dubai. He is also founder of Mo'Zik, an innovative record label.

Project Manager:
Anthea Roy

Local Architect:
Carmody Groarke

Music West:
Richard Mortimer, Mathieu Massadian

Music Congo:
Reginal Kudiwu, Popol Mukelenge, Stern Music

Head Chef:
David Jones

Lightning Consultant:
Arnold Chan

The Double Club is made possible with the generous support of Guaranty Trust Bank PLC, Nigeria.
The Double Club endorses a non-membership policy and there is no entry charge.

The Double Club
7 Torrens Street EC1V 1NQ - London

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