Carsten Höller: Stockholm Slides

A large-scale artwork by internationally renowned artist Carsten Höller is installed on the façade of Moderna Museet. Stockholm Slides features two parallel, spiral slides running from the museum's roof down to Slupskjulsvägen. Go up, slide down, and experience art in a whole new way! Both tracks of "Stockholm Slides" are approximately 39 metres long and identical, but mirrored. One turns clockwise and the other counterclockwise. Two people can ride at the same time, as in a mirrored choreography. Slide down together or by yourself. The drop height is 15 metres. Various types of slides have been part of Carsten Höller's artistic production since 1998 and have been erected permanently or temporarily in a large number of locations around Europe and the USA. Carsten Höller himself describes the experience of riding the slide as a controlled fall, a state of "voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind" – borrowing from the sociologist Roger Caillois. Carsten Höller describes his works as "influential environments" – installations that evoke specific states of mind such as exhilaration, disorientation, doubt, joy and fear.