25/11/2025
In 1987, Luna Luna landed in Hamburg, Germany: the world’s first art amusement park with rides, games, and attractions by visionaries like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí, David Hockney, Kenny Scharf, and Sonia Delaunay.
Keith Haring designed a carousel that transformed the unmistakable marks he used to “graffiti” the New York subway into three-dimensional forms bursting with color. In his version of the carousel archetype, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures amplified their dynamism by the rotating motion of the machine, creating a feast of strong colors and profiles. Instead of white horses, one could go around sitting on sculptures whose form did not suggest a clear approach to use, but, as the photographs tell, left full freedom of interpretation.
Other artists included André Heller, Joseph Beuys, Arik Brauer, Manfred Deix, Rebecca Horn, Daniel Spoerri, Jim Whiting, and Philip Glass. The park was the brainchild of Austrian artist André Heller and included rides, games, and attractions designed by these and other visionaries.
