Carsten Höller’s exhibition “Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald,” on display at the Project Space of the Schering Stiftung, is a cooperation with the Berlin National Gallery. In the context of his extensive solo exhibition, SOMA, at the National Gallery’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist developed his new work Rentier rot-grün (Reindeer red-green) for the Schering Stiftung, continuing his artistic exploration of the phi-phenomenon, which he began in 2001.

The phi-phenomenon refers to the perception of a non-existent movement, which is generated in the eye by rapidly switching on and off the light in two fixed light sources. The viewer sees a third point between the two fixed light points, which appears to jump between the two poles.

After the exhibition closes, the Schering Stiftung will donate the work Rentier rot-grün as a gift to the collection of the National Gallery Berlin. The Foundation also supports the more extensive presentation of Carsten Höller’s work at the Hamburger Bahnhof. As part of its focus on “artistic research,” the Schering Stiftung thus seeks to honour an artist who is one of the most important international artists working at the interface with science and who already in the early 1990s began to realize the experiment as a process in his artistic works.