Christoph Keller, born 1967 in Freiburg, Germany, works and lives in Berlin. Keller is one of Germany’s most interesting and unique photographers and video artists.
Christoph Keller has exhibited in such places as PS1 in New York, KUNST-WERKE in Berlin, ZKM KARLSRUHE, MUSEUM NOBEL in Stockholm, Museum of Modern Art in Saltsburg, SPRENGEL MUSEUM in Hanover. In 2002 Keller participated at the group exhibition PARADISE at the Herzlya Museum of Art. In these days Christoph Keller is participating at the exhibition SCIENCE AND FICTION that opened recently at the National Museum in Tokyo.
Born in Freiburg, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education
1987-1992 Studies math, physics and hydrology in Freiburg, Berlin and Santiago de Chile
1993-1996 Member of the interdiscipinary group Botschaft e.V. Berlin
1993-1995 Studies liberal arts at the HdK Berlin, with Katharina Sieverding
1996-1999 Postgraduate studies film and art at the Media-Art Accademy in Cologne
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Conspiracy Theories, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
2006 The Mesmer-Room, Galerie Gabrielle-Maubrie, Paris
Christoph Keller, Galeria Antonio-Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2005 Time-Machine, Chelouche-Gallery, Tel Aviv
2003 Cloudbuster-Projekt, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Christoph Keller/Alexander Krause, Kunststiftung
Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
2002 Kunsthaus Schloss Wendlinghausen e.V., Dörentrup
2001 Christoph Keller. Encyclopaedia Cinematographica, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1998 Tunnel & Lightbox, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2010 “Good Little Thing”, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009 Biennial Fin del Mundo, Argentina
7th Mercosul Biennial – Porto Alegre / Brazil
2007 The Domain of the Great Bear”: “Kosmische Sehnsucht, Kunstraum Muenchen
Made in Germany, Sprengel-Museum Hannover
Say it isn’t so: Naturwissenschaften im Visier der Kunst, Museum Weserburg,
Bremen
Summer’s Color, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006 Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Arts, London
on the move – Verkehrskultur II, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, COMA, Berlin
2005 Dispersed Moments of Concentration, Phoenix-Halle Dortmund
AUTOmobilisè, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
Science + Fiction, Miraikan-Museum , Tokyo
24-Hour Incidental, Swiss-Institute, New York
Internationaler Medienkunstpreis, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2004 Science + Fiction, Nobel Museum, Stockholm
ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Science + Fiction, Deutsches Museum, München
Where am I (and who are all these people), Galeria EXIT, Pejë, Kosovo
Onufri-Price, Tirana, Albanien
2003 Production Unit, Kunst-Werke e.V., Artefiera, Bologna
Science + Fiction – zwischen Nanowelt und globaler Kultur, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Indyforum, Seoul
Mediacity Festival, Ontario
Breaking Away: 2002-2003 National and International Studio Program
Exhibition, P.S.1, New York
Junge Kunst 2003/2004, Stipendiaten 2002 der KunststiftungBaden-
Württemberg, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Singen; LandratsamtPforzheim,
Rathausgalerie Aalen,
Bausparkasse Schwäbisch-Hall; Wertheim; Oberkirch
Die Sehnsucht des Kartographen, Kunstverein Hannover
Still|Moving, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering • Quack, Berlin
2002 The Berlin Files, De Chiara Gallery, New York
Berlino nuova città d’arte, Opera Paese, Rome
Ars Viva samples #1, Kunstfenster im BDI, Berlin
Openvideospace – 5 settimane di video, Milan
Cuerpos, espacios y identidades, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama
Magische Maschinen, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg
Loop – back to the beginning, CAC, Cincinnati
Science + Fiction, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Paradise, Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Berlinskaja Lazur/Junge Fotokunst aus Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2001 ars viva 00/01, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen; ZKM Zentrum
für Medienkunst, Karlsruhe
Suchbilder. Schritte zu einem Bildarchiv filmischer Topoi, 3-tägiger Kongreß,
Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Loop – Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypokulturstiftung, Munich
C.A.M.P., Maebashi
2000 Dive In, Kunstpanorama, Panorama am Löwenplatz, Luzern
Judith Hopf, Christoph Keller, Senatsstipendiaten Bildende Kunst 1999,
Kunstbank, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur,Berlin
ars viva 00/01, Kunst und Wissenschaft, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle
1999 Konstruktionszeichnungen, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Children of Berlin, PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Countdown West 2K, Berlin
1998 Le Futur du Passé, Le Lac Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean
Berlin/Berlin, 1. Berlin Biennale, Berlin
1997 Was Nun? Schipper & Krome, Berlin (helioflex)
Matti Braun, Pia Greschner, Christoph Keller, Les Schließer, Schipper &
Krome, Berlin
1996 phototrop, Milchhof, Berlin
OPERATIV, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Files, Bunker, Berlin
dagegen-dabei (Radio 70/90), Kunstverein in Hamburg
Tropic of Cancer, ein internet-travelouge-Projekt, in Zusammenarbeit mit
Felix S. Huber, Philip Pocock, Florian Wüst, Kunsthalle New York
1995 dirty-windows-gallery, Berlin
WAPO-Projekt, Panorama-Patent, Ars Electronica, Linz
natureTM, Shedhalle Zürich (RadioTM)
RadioTM und Radio 70/90, zwei Radioprojekte; in Zusammenarbeit mit
Botschaft e.V., BüroBert, minimal club
1993-1994 Museum für Zukunft, in Zusammenarbeit mit Botschaft e.V.,
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1994 Die dritte Generation, allgirls-gallery, Berlin
Museum für Zukunft, Friesenwall 116a, Köln
Wir stellen um auf EDV, Medienbiennale, Leipzig
Films/Videos
2002 Shaman Travel, DVD, 20 min., zur Installation “Expedition-Bus”
Screenings: “Science + Fiction”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2000 Oranienburger Stasse, S-8, 4.35 min., loop
1999 retrograd – Filme der Charité Berlin 1900-1990, Betacam SP, 32 min.
1995 Rundum-Film, Betacam SP, 6 min.
Screenings: EMAF Osnabrück, Viper Luzern, and other places
Kamtschatka, S-VHS, 30 min.; Documentation on a geologic expedition in
East Russia
1994 roto tv, a video concept
Screenings: Medienbienale Leipzig, WMF-Club Berlin, Friseur Berlin
roto term.3, Video-Hi8, 6 min.
Screenings: Videofest Berlin, AVE Arnheim, and other places
Botschaft – to be continued…, S-VHS, 10 min. a video for Eigen + Art,
independent art space, London
1993 Starfighter, 16mm, 6 min.
Screenings: AVE Arnheim, EMAF Osnabrück, New Visions Glasgow,
Light-Fantastic, Brighton and other places
Awards and Grants
2007 Residences Internationales aux Recollets, City of Paris and the French
Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Paris
2006 Bremer Videokunst Förderpreis, Bremen
2002-2003 P.S.1 Residency-Program, New York
2002 Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
2001 Kunstfonds-Stipendium, Bonn
2000-2001 Kunstpreis ars viva 00/01, Kulturkreis des BDI, Berlin
1999 Art-Grant of the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung
und Kultur, Berlin
1995 Photography-Stipend of the Berlin-Senat
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