Biography

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Solo Exhibitions (*with catalogue)

• 2003 Black September, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
• 2002 Black September, Muller/DeChiara , Berlin
• Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
• Beaufort 12-Au bord du désastre, Expo 02, Neuchatel
• Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg
• 2001 Crash, Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen
• Ode to a Sad Song (If you lived here you would be dead now), Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
• Puzzled/Gameshow, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (curated by Laura Heon)
• Them or Us, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck (curated by Annette Röhr and Hermann Nöring)
• 2000 Inundacions, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona (curated by Chus Martinez)
• Voyages, Galerie Urs Meile Luzern
• Teenage Riot, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg (curated by Heike Munders/Bernd Milla)
• Crash, Le Parvis, Centre d?Art contemporain leClerc, Pau (F) (curated by Sylvie Froux)
• Tueur né/Natural Born Killer, Le Parvis, Centre d¹Art contemporain, Ibos-Tarbes (F)
• Action//Time//Vision, St. Gervais, Centre pour l?image contemporaine, Geneva, (curated by André Iten)
• Apocalypso Place/Fall Season, Kunsthaus Zurich, (w/ Reynold Reynolds, curated by Tobia Bezzola)
• Going All The Way, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel (curated by Martin Schwander)
• 1999 Apocalypso Place, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York (w/ Reynold Reynolds)
• CRASH, Foerderkoje, Galerie Urs Meile, Art Cologne
• Lakehurst NJ, Grenz-Raum, Zeppelinmuseum, Friedrichshafen
• Action//Time//Vision (Alternative TV), Orchard Gallery, Derry, Nordirland
• Yellow and Red, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunauvarnos, Ungarn (w/ M.Frei, T.Thuemena)
• Out of the Blue-Into the Black, Damasquine Gallery, Brussels
• 1998 New York-Serneus retour, Kulturhaus Rosengarten, Gruesch* (CH)
• Make Believe, Stalke Gallery, Kopenhagen (and P.Traasdaal, S.Walder, curated by Ch. Doswald)*
• Puzzled, Statements, Galerie Urs Meile, Art 29, Basel*
• OEL, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern
• NB, Kunsthalle, St.Gallen (and Biefer/Zgraggen, curated by Pierre Andre Lienard)*
• Hotelbrand, Hotel, Zürich (curated by Olaf Breuning)
• 1997 Nature abhoars a naked singularity, Clocktower Gallery, New York (w/ Nina Bruderman, P. Jolley)
• 1996 How Far You Are, Passage Placette, Belluard Fribourg (curated by Michel Ritter, Kunsthalle FriArt)
• It?s the end of the world as we love it, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (w/ M. Frei, curated by Harm Lux)
• 1995 The Apartement, Filiale Basel*, Basel (and Gianni Motti, A. Biancini, curated by Attitudes)
• 1994 M.U.S.E.U.M., Kunstmuseum Luzern* (w/ usa-united swiss artists, curated by Martin Schwander)
• 1993 Critical Distance, ADO Gallery, Antwerpen (w/ OCI, curated by Luk Lambrecht)*
• Schleutelwerken, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (w/ OCI)*
• 1991 SOLO, Etablissements d'en Face, Brussels*

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Selected Group Exhibitions (*with catalogue)

2003

• Constructed Realities: Contemporary Photography, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
• Mursollaici¸ Centre Culturel Suisse: Paris, curated by Michel Ritter, Paris, France
• Urban Diaries: Young Swiss Art, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
• Pantalla Suiza, Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Transmediale.03 (play global!), International Media Art Festival, Berlin, Germany

2002

• Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
• GewaltBilder-Zur Aesthetik der Gewalt (Violent Images?Aesthetics of Violence), Museum Belrive, Zurich
• NightVision, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL (curated by Joy Garnett)
• Superlounge, GAle GAtes, New York (March 27, curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito)
• Big Social Game, 2nd Big Torino Biennial, Torino (April 19, curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto)
• Kunstverein Ulm, (Aug/Sept, curated by Brigitte Haussmann)

2001

• Highlights from the Permananent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Wald und Explosion, Helmhaus Zurich (curated by Simon Maurer)
• Apocalypso Place & Schizo, Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
• Artlounge ? Projects #1: ?(White) Cubes,? Galerie Cato Jans, Hamburg
• Anxiety Disorder, Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt (curated by Irina Popiashvili)
• Brooklyn!, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lakewood, Florida (curated by Michael Rush/Dominique Nahas)
• Lite, Roebling Hall, New York (curated by Christoph Draeger and Adriana Arenas)
• Unter Wasser, Museum Belrive Zurich (w/ Martin Frei)
• Play is the Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (curated by Franz Motz)*
• Who Killed Bambi, K&S Galerie, Kunstraum des ZKM, Berlin (curated by Miriam Bers)
• The Body of Art, Bienal de Valencia, Spain (curated by Achile Bonita Oliva)
• Endtroducing, Villa Arson, Nice (F) (curated by Laurence Gateau)*
• The Entropic Garden, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (curated by Joel Beck and Christian Viveros-Fauné)
• Another Day on Planet Earth, Dechiara/Stewart Gallery, New York

2000

• Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communication, Tribes Gallery, New York
• International Video Program, 7th Bienal de La Havana, Cuba (curated by Euridice Arratia)
• No Vacancies, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin (curated by Angelika Richter)
• Grauer Star, Kunstmuseum Chur*
• Four From Brooklyn, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapid, Iowa (curated by Joel Beck & Christian Viveros-Fauné)
• Domiciles, Centre d?Art Tanlay, Perrigny (F), (curated by Jaques Py)*
• Katastrophen und Desaster, Folkwang Museum Essen (D) (curated by Gerhard Finckh)*
• Quiet, 359 Broadway, New York (curated by Leo Koenig)

1999

• The Video Collection, Kunsthaus Zürich (curated by Tobia Bezzola)
• Out of Order, Roebling Hall, New York (curated by Joel Beck & Christian Viveros-Fauné)
• Amnesic Cinemas, Galerie du Bellay, Rouen (F) (curated by Phillipe Terrier Hermann)*
• Autour de R2/12, Attitudes, Geneva (CH)
• Cinema, Cinema - the Cinematic Experience, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)
• (curated by Marente Bloemheuvel & Jaap Guldemond)*
• Playtime, Magasin, Grenoble (F)*
• Ailleurs 4, Attitudes @ ACC Galerie, Weimar (D)

1998

• Dystopia/Babel, Roebling Hall, New York (curated by Joel Beck & Christian Viveros-Fauné)
• Reservate der Sehnsucht/Zones of Desire, Unionbrauerei, Dortmund (curated by Hardware)*
• De tres courts espace de temps, Biennale de l?image, CNP, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris*
• VideoVision 2, El Haganar, Cairo (curated by Silvie Defraoui)
• Young Art, Mamco, Musée d?art contemporain, Genf (curated by Lionel Bovier)

1997

• Speed, 2nd Biennal, Kwangju, Korea (w/ Martin Frei, curated by Harald Szeemann)*
• Kiosk, Downtown Art Festival, New York (curated by Karin Frei)
• P.S.1 International Studio Show, Clocktower Gallery, New York*
• Disaster and Recovery, the Swiss Institute, New York

1996

• Le meridien de Verviers, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Verviers (B)
• Young Art, Kunsthalle, Bern*
• Picture this, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Antwerp
• Bounds of Boundlessness, NGBK, Berlin*

1995

• Vision-Illusion-Reality, Kunsthaus Zurich (w/ Martin Frei, curated by Harald Szeemann)*
• Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (w/ Martin Frei, curated by Martin Heller)
• Etalage, Comtoir, Brussels*
• Think Apocalypse, Galerie Observatoire, Brussels (curated by Phillipe Terrier Hermann)

1994

• Prospectus, Laeken-Brussels (B) (curated by Phillipe Braem)*
• Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
• Musée d'Art et Histoire, Neuchâtel (CH)*
• Variations sur le charme discret de la Bourgoisie, London (curated by Veronique Terrier)

1993

• Members Only, Carles Poy Gallery, Barcelona*

1992

• In the Cold, Kunsthalle Luzern (curated by Stefan Banz)*

*with catalogue

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Selected Video Screenings

• 2001 Pandaemonium, Biennial of Moving Images, The Lux Centre, London
• 2000 Forum Itinerant, Strasbourg
• Tramvideo, Lyon
• Popifilm, Rotterdam Vera, Groningen
• De Balie, Amsterdam
• 1999 Documentary Film Festival, Duisburg
• VIPER, International Video und Film Festival Luzer
• Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
• New York Underground Film Festival, New York
• Le Club du Capitain Pip, Centre d¹Art Contemporain Espace Jules Verne, Bretigny sur Orge Centre d?image Contemporain St. Gervais, Geneva
• Tramvideo, Lyon
• 1998 Kino Loge, Winterthur*
• The Videoroom Festival, Ocularis, New York
• Lost & Found, De Waag, Amsterdam

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Grants

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Collections

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Washington Museum of Arts, Seattle
• West Collection at SEI Investments, Oaks, Pennsylvania
• Kunsthaus Zurich
• Buendner Kunstmuseum, Chur
• Kunstmuseum Luzern, City of Chur
• St. Gervais, Centre pour l?image contemporaine, St. Gervais, Geneva
• musée d?Art et histoire, Neuchatel
• Kunst Heute Foundation, Bern
• Communauté francaise, Brussels
• Collection of Baloise Insurances, Basel
• Collection of Winterthur Insurances, Zurich
• Collection Ringier, Zurich

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Selected Bibliography

• Luk Lambrecht, "Solo - Etablissement d'en face, Brussels," DeMorgen, 9/1991
• Martin Frei, "Catastrophy," catalogue "OCI and Christoph Draeger," ADO Gallery, Antwerp, 1993
• Jean-Paul Jaquet, "voyages apocalyptiques," Etant donné, Brussels, 5/1993
• Lino Polegato, "construire la destruction," Flux News, Liege, 9/1993
• Margaret Jardas, "4 junge Schweizer-Filiale Basel," Basler Zeitung, 3/1995
• Thomas Seelig, "Christoph Draeger," Pakt-Zeitschrift für zeitgenösisce Kunst, 1/1996
• Paolo Bianci, "Apokalyptische Reisen," Kunstforum 137, 6/ 1997
• Christoph Doswald, Interview, Facts 12/1997
• Pierre-Andre Lienhard, "Hat der Weltuntergang schon stattgefunden?", catalogue ?NB,? 12/1998
• Edith Arnold, "Immer modischer", Interview, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 3/1998
• Maria Vogel, "Aestetisch untadelig vorgefuehrte Katastrophen," Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 4/1998
• Cecile Bourne, "Feel Lucky, Punk??!", catalogue Biennale de l'image, Paris, 1998
• Pascal Beausse, "Zoe Beloff/Christoph Draeger - After-images," Art Press 235, 5/1998
• Gerhard Mack, "Heulende Sirenen im Telekolegg", NB-Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Tagblatt, 2/1998
• Samuel Herzog, "Schaschlik aus Half Brain und Dirty Harry," videoforum ART 29, Basler Zeitung, 6/1998
• Christoph Doswald, "Make Believe: Artistic Self-Assertion in the Age of Autopoetic
• Simulation,? catalogue for Make Believe, Stalke Gallery, Kopenhagen, 1998
• Gerhard Mack, "Seine Kunst ist eine einzige Katastrophe," CASH, 8/1998
• Gisela Kuoni, Christoph Draeger/Martin Frei bei Luciano Fascati, Kunstbulletin, 9/1998
• Gisela Kuoni, Leben auf dem Vulkan, Buendner Zeitung, 8/1998
• Peter Masüger, ?Katastrophen und Klischees,? Buendner Tagblatt 9/1998
• Werkgespraech mit Dorothea Strauss, catalogue Galerie Luciano Fascati, Chur 10/1998
• Gisela Kuoni, ?Die Katastrophe als Kunstwerk,? Buendner Zeitung, 9/1998
• Gisela Kuoni, "Von Katastrophen im Prättigau," Buendner Zeitung 10/1998
• Peter Masüger, ?NY-Serneus-retour,? Buendner Tagblatt 11/1998
• Christoph Doswald, ?Apocalypse, Now??, Katalog ?Cinema, Cinema,? Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven 2/1999
• Bernhard Marcelis, ?Christoph Draeger/Galerie Damasquine,? Artpress 246, 5/1999
• Beatrice Ruf, ?Christoph Draeger,? in ?Art At Ringier 1995-1998,? catalogue, 1999
• Marius Leutenegger, ?Christoph Draeger: Un Ga Nai-Bad Luck,? Feature in Hangar 21, June 99
• ?Action/Time/Vision,? The Guardian, 7/1999
• Patraig Timonee, ?Christoph Draeger/The Orchard Gallery,? Art Monthly, 9/1999
• Daniel Binswanger, Zur Lokalisierung der Endzeit, Kat. "Disaster Zone", 9/1999
• Patraig Timonee, Good Old Douglas Bader, Bad Old Andreas Baader, Kat. "Disaster Zone", 9/1999
• Dr. Dirk Bluebaum, Die Sicherheit des Risikos, Kat. "Disaster Zone", 9/1999
• Beat Stutzer, ?Die Aura des Todes als Bildthema,? Die Südostschweiz, 9/1999
• Johannes Hedinger, Horrorskop, Saiten, St. Gallen, 11/1999
• ?Christoph Draeger, Apocalypso Place,? Contemporary Visual Arts #26, London, 12/1999
• Joyce Korotkin, ?Christoph Draeger & Reynold Reynolds @ Liebman Magnan Gallery,? NY Arts, 1/2000
• Kim Levin, ?Christoph Draeger,? ShortList, Village Voice, New York 18.Jan., 2000
• Phil Johnson, ?Christoph Draeger & Reynold Reynolds,? Art Guide, New York Times, Jan. 14, 2000
• Frank de Neeve, Zwitserse ramptoeristen in Japan, de Filmkrant (NL), 2/2000
• Sabine Russ, ?Spiel mit dem Ernst,? Katalog Katastrophen & Desaster, Folkwang Museum Essen, 2/2000
• Jaqueline Frank, ?Unglückspuzzle,? Basler Zeitung, Basel, 2/2000
• Phillip Kaiser, ?Going All the Way,? EIKON, Vienna, 5/2000
• Rainer Ganahl, ?Apocalypso Place,? Zing Magazine, New York, 6/2000
• Chus Martinez, ?Un Ga Nai-Bad Luck-Mal Suerte,? TRANS 7, 5/2000
• ?Voyages Apocalyptiques?, Feature in List Magazine #1, New York, 6/2000
• Heather Stephens, "The Power of Nature," Feature on www.studio-visit.com, Sept., 2000
• Barbara Basting, ?Katastrophenlust, latenter Zynismus,? Tagesanzeiger Zurich, 13.9.2000
• Ludmilla Vachtova, ?Optische Attacken auf die Klassiker,? Weltwoche, 9/2000
• ?Draeger et Reynolds font des rêves d?apocalypse,? La Liberté, 23.9.00
• David Signer, ?Trashkunst gegen die Einsamkeit,? Magazin, 23.9.00
• Nina Gülicher, "Vom Pendeln in den (Film- und Spiel-) Realitäten," blitzrevue.de, 9/2000
• André Iten, ?Fascination morbide??, L?HEBDO, 5.10.00
• Marie-Louise Nigg, ?Sintflut mit Groove und Funfaktor,? Zürichsee Zeitung, 7.10.00
• Dunja Stacovitz , ?The Vanity of Bonfires,? Feature in Style Magazine, Berlin, Nov/Dec 2000
• Claudius Seidl, ?Nach dem Weltuntergang,? Feature in Süddeutsche Zeitung-Magazin, 30.3.01
• Christoph Doswald, ?Kritische Reflexionen über Medien und Katastrophen,? Bilanz/Art Guide, 2001
• Jerry Saltz, ?Screen Savers/LITE,? Village Voice, 7/2001
• Kim Levin, ?Only the Best-Fall Arts Preview,? Village Voice, 9/2001
• Gary Schwan, ?Museum Head: Video must go on,? Palm Beach Post 12/9/01
• Holland Cotter, ?When reality overtakes art,? New York Times, 9/2001
• Martin Suter, ?Von der Wirklichkeit überholt,? Sonntagszeitung, 9/2001
• Sarah Bayliss, ?New York artists recover and regroup,? Boston Globe, 7/10/2001
• Lars Movin, ?Disaster World,? Information (Denmark), 23.10.01
• Stefan Lüddemann, ?Statt der Pfeile treffen Flugzeuge den heiligen San Sebastian,?
• Osnabrücker Zeitung, 26.11.2001
• Monica Sanchez Argiles, ?Christoph Draeger. Declive y Renacimiento,? Lapiz, 178, 12/2001
  

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