DAC Slide: Try Carsten Höller’s 40 m slide in BLOX
Exhibition
Permanent exhibition
Politiken
DAC Slide is a permanent, interactive art installation by Carsten Höller in BLOX: Try the 40-metre slide that takes you four floors down through DAC. Do you dare?
Are you adventurous enough to try the fastest and wildest art installation in Copenhagen? Challenge your senses on a unique 40-meter, 4-story spiral slide.
We look forward to welcoming you to the ride of your life. DAC Slide has been created by the internationally renowned German-Belgian artist Carsten Höller, who has made similar artworks in the form of slides at leading museums around the world, including Tate Modern in London.
DAC Slide is an interactive art installation, an attraction, a piece of architecture and a “tool to study emotions in yourself and in other people”, says Höller.
Practical information
What
Interactive slide by Carsten Höller
Length
40 metres over 4 floors
Location
Exhibition Forum by the Gallery Stair at DAC
Requirements
Minimum height 110 cm
Maximum weight 150 kg
Safety
One person at a time
Ride in a fabric sack
We are very grateful that the Ny Carlsberg Foundation has chosen to donate the large art installation DAC Slide to our fantastic building.
Photo: Kontraframe
You will find the art installation at the Exhibition Forum – next to our Gallery stairs, which you of course still can use, if you don’t dare to zip down the fast track – DAC Slide.
Whether you take the stairs or slide down the DAC Slide, you arrive directly at the DAC Design Shop, where you can explore books on design and architecture as well as beautiful, smart and functional design gifts.
Photo: Kontraframe
"Why are slides not used in architecture, to complement stairs, elevators and escalators? They are fast, safe and energy-savvy – and they produce a sensation in the user that has been described as a kind of voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind, somewhere between delight and madness,"
Ride DAC Slide safely
To try DAC Slide, you must be at least 110 cm tall and weigh a maximum of 150 kg. Only one person at a time in the Slide. Please make sure to use our slide bags and keep your legs straight and arms close to the body – especially if you’re over 1.8 meter tall. The bag will protect you against friction so you slide like a pro.
Florence, 2018
The Florence Experiment Slides, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze.
London, 2015
Isomeric Slides, Decision, Hayward Gallery, London.
Photo: Attilio Maranzano 
Høvikodden, 2017
Healing Slide, Henie Onstad Sanatorium, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden.
Photo: Attilio Maranzano