ArtStars* 50 - Carsten Höller

http://artstarstv.com -- Masterpiece or massive rip off? For our 50th anniversary episode, we visit the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin where Stockholm artist Carsten Holler has turned the contemporary art museum into a swanky hotel.
For 1000€ stay the night in the hotel with a pack of 12 reindeer. That's over 80,000€ for an 80 day exhibition - which means the animals are there for nearly 3 months - and also heard the bed has already sold for 100,000€.
This is the perfect example of a VIP museum gala party, and you'll soon see why.

ArtStars*
Host: Nadja Sayej
Camera: Christian Rubarth
Editor: Ryan Edwards
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[leifharmsen]

I didn't see any Americans. You must be thinking of the last video with that cute kid pretending to be an artist from Houston. What would a "good" question be? Who would you ask given that nobody responsible showed up and the curator was clearly terrified of questions. The "how dare you question my art, you wouldn't understand because you (fill in the blank - eg. are American - have bubs whatever) and we don't answer questions in Berlin" - just doesn't cut mustard. Emperor's New Hotel!

[paradelova]

to sleep in this "hotel" ,how she calls it asking a lot of silliest questions ist better than the best sex , but the american sex-moral is a very hard thing, we know that too. and "guten abend" doesent mean" good night" it means "good evening" you super jounalist!

[paradelova]

it seems, that american people are more interested in big bubs than in culture, we know that and we are very sorry for that. me too -like the artist and the curator-would not speak with this lady : her bubs are as big like her ignorance - congratulations poor girl. grönemeyer is realy a nice guy because very polite

[joshshier]

casts a better light on the patrons of berlin's art scene at least. the whole thing seems utterly ridiculous though.

[jenninat0r]

"I think it's a little bit not disgusting is it?"