Christoph Draeger
Christoph Draeger, born in 1965 in Zurich, is an internationally known conceptual artist who lives in New York and Vienna. He studied at La Cambre, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts visuels in Brussels and at he School of Visual Arts, Lucerne. In 1996/7, he moved from Brussels to New York for a one-year scholarship at PS1’s International Studio Program. Draeger’s projects take the form of installation, video, and photo-based media to explore issues pertaining to disaster and mediasaturated culture. His work has been exhibited world wide in galleries and institutions.
Solo exhibitions
2012 Tsunami Architecture, in cooperation with Heidrun Holzfeind, OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz. Middle East Europe, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague. 2011 Temporary Wall of Voodoo, West Gallery, Den Hague. Apocalipso Place, Lokal_30, Warsaw. 2010 Monumental, Y Gallery, Bowery, New York. 2009 Bro_ken, Galerie Luciano Fascati, Chur. Tropolicalia, CCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. 2008 The End of the Remake, Roebling Hall, New York. Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco.
Group exhibitions
2011 Rollenbilder – Rollenspiele, Museum der Moderne Salzburg. unheimlich vertraut. Bilder vom Terror, C/O Berlin. (RE)CONSTRUCTED, Kunsthaus Glarus. 2010 Verbotene Liebe, Steirischer Herbst, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz. Lush Life, Invisible Exports, New York. Crossfades, Shedhalle Zurich. Storytelling, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien. Documentary Fortnight, MoMA, New York. 2009 Black Zero, White Box, Performa ’09, New York. Bilderschlachten, EMAF European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück.
Publications (monographs)
The End of the Remake Trilogy, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw (ed.), Kodoji Press, Baden 2009.
Memories of terror from a safe distance, Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ed.), Revolver. Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2003.
Toutou, Tueur né/Apocalypso Place, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Centre d’art contemporain Ibos-Tarbes (eds.), Revolver. Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2000.