LONDON (The Associated Press)—A German artist fascinated with the human mind is charged with filling the Tate Modern's giant Turbine Hall with an innovative work of art, the gallery said today.

Carsten Holler will be the seventh artist to take on the task of exhibiting his work in the room that dominates the gallery, a former power station on the south bank of the River Thames.

Sponsored by Unilever, commissioned works are expected to use the 500 feet by 115 feet hall imaginatively. The current exhibition by artist Rachel Whiteread is created from 14,000 white polyethylene boxes stacked into towers that dwarf visitors who wind around them. From above, the work resembles a landscape made of sugar cubes or blocks of ice.

''Carsten Holler involves his audience in explorations intended to generate visual events and stimulate feelings and thoughts to bring about shared experiences,'' said the gallery's director, Vicente Todoli.

Holler, who lives in Sweden, explores human behavior, logic and altered states of mind and perception. One work, Upside-Down Mushroom Room, consists of enormous, fabricated red, orange and white mushrooms hanging and rotating from a ceiling.

In his 2003 work Sliding Doors, viewers pass through a series of electronic sliding doors with a mirrored surface, creating a seemingly endless passage.

Previous displays in the Turbine Hall have included Anish Kapoor's Marsyas, a blood-red snaking sculpture, and Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, an artificial sun that filled the space with yellow light.

Holler's work will go on display at the Tate Modern on Oct. 10.

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