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Carsten Höller transforms London's biggest landmarks
As part of his new exhibition, Carsten Höller is adding outdoor slides to the Hayward Gallery. So what would the Belgian artist like to do to London’s other landmarks?
Art this summer is all about putting a smile on your face and a shine on your trousers. Yes, Carsten Höller’s slides – which we fell headover-heels for (though it had to be feet first) at Tate Modern in 2006 – return to London.
They’ll be in a new location on the South Bank for the German-Belgian artist’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery: attached to the façade of the building (see above), these brilliant childhood-regression machines offer the speediest exit from Höller’s show. But they’re not the only interactive artworks in this hands- and bums-on extravaganza. You’ll also be strapped to flying machines that will whizz you high over Waterloo Bridge, wander among giant rotating mushrooms and don augmented-reality headsets that make you think you’re walking through trees. You might even get to spend the night in a roaming robotic bed.
It’s not just fun and games, mind. Fascinated by the social spaces we share, Höller is a man on a mission to redefine the way we interact with art, our surroundings and each other. And his art goes way beyond the confines of any gallery. So the challenge we set him was to reimagine London as a series of interactive artworks in his own inimitable style. We provided the locations, he provided the ideas. And here’s the public art our favourite new town planner came up with.
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A slide down The Shard
We say A long, slow trip where you have time to reflect, read and eat? Just hope it’s more fun than the Northern line.


Giant mushrooms in Trafalgar Square
We say Dotting Trafalgar Square with poisonous fungi is a perfect way to whittle down the number of tourists who congregate there. We’re all for it.


Dicey games on the Millennium Bridge
We say If your cheese has maggots in it, you’ve got to take it straight back to the deli counter. That aside, sure: give the kids something to do – just keep them out of our pubs.


Roaming beds on Oxford Street
We say Anything to make Oxford Street less of a living nightmare is okay by us. And you could even pop into John Lewis for a duvet. Very civilised.
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