This winter, Kulm Hotel St. Moritz adds a new chapter to its long history of cultural experimentation with Pink Mirror Carousel, a monumental outdoor installation by Carsten Höller. Set on the hotel’s ice-skating rink, the carousel—clad in pink mirrored panels and animated by a deliberately slowed rotation—takes a familiar object and transforms it into a tool for observation rather than mere entertainment.

A recurring element in Höller’s practice, the carousel reappears here as a “machine of confusion”: a device that plays with perception, time, and expectation. Reflections multiply the Alpine landscape, skaters, and visitors alike, creating a constant slippage between observer and observed. The structure’s double rotation—two minutes for a full cycle, with opposing movements—turns the carousel into a kind of poetic clock, a sensitive measure of shared time.

The collaboration with the Kulm is no coincidence. Known as “the hotel that invented winter,” the property has woven hospitality, sport, and culture together for over 165 years. Pink Mirror Carousel fits seamlessly into this legacy, offering a collective experience that celebrates slowness and imagination, in sharp contrast to the relentless acceleration of contemporary life. An invitation to step on, look—and, above all, linger.