As Höller shifted his focus to art in the early 1990s, he quickly crossed paths with contemporaries who were likewise experimenting around the intersections of art, space, and social experience. This approach that would later be described as “Relational Aesthetics,” underscoring an emphasis on exchange and context. Over the past thirty years, Höller has examined how games, amusement park devices, and everyday technologies can be reconfigured to provoke unfamiliar modes of perception. Many of his installations shape collective environments, urging participants to reconsider their own positions within them. His scientific training also resurfaces in works involving plants and animals, whose forms and colors he distorts or amplifies, prompting new perspectives on humanity’s relationship with other species.

At UCCA, Höller will present a constellation of his signature works together with new projects created specifically for Beijing. Conceived as a series of evolving experimental encounters, the exhibition will plunge visitors into shifting perceptual states, encouraging them to experience time, space, and social relations in unexpected and transformative ways. This exhibition is curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari.