CARSTEN HOLLER was born in Brussels in 1961 and now lives in Stockholm.He sees art as a cognitive instrument and uses his works to transform our sensory and emotional experience. He loves to provoke viewers by distorting their habitual mechanisms of perception. Hence the room full of giant upside-down mushrooms which he presented at Milan's Fondazione Prada in 2000 and the slides he installed at the Tate Modern in London in 2006, to be "generators of rapture and delight,"as he himself described them. Holler has taken part in all the major international artistic exhibitions: from Documenta in Kassel, to the Venice Biennale,the Berlin Biennial and the Bienal de Sao Paulo. He has also produced numerous collaborative works with other contemporary artists, including Maurizio Cattelan and Rosemarie Trockel.