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Christoph Keller

Born 1967 in Freiburg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
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Christoph Keller, Ceppo Sradicato (series of black and white photographs), 2019. Exhibition view: Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2019. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Christoph Keller’s work constitutes an examination of the history of science and of the way in which knowledge is gathered and organized. His practice includes large-scale sculptural interventions, photography, film, exhibition-making, and psychological experiments, which he documents in various media.

Full biography

Selected works

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Christoph Keller
Kirche, Fliegenpilz, Bildfehler, 2023
Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
54 x 43,1 cm (unframed)
60 x 49 x 2,8 cm (framed)
Edition of 4
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Christoph Keller
Down Feather, 2023
Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
43,1 x 33,1 cm (unframed)
47,3 x 37,4 x 2,8 cm (framed)
Edition of 4
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Christoph Keller
Future Archeologists, 2023
3-channel HD video installation (color, sound)

Dimensions variable
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Christoph Keller
Data Error – Roma Antichità at 2018-08-08 at 14:27.48, 2021

Archival Pigment Print on Canson Velin Museum Rag, 315g
22,8 x 31,3 cm (unframed)
28,7 x 37,2 x 3 cm (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Ceppo sradicato (uprooted tree), 2018

Pine stump, 7 gelatin silver prints, humidifier
Stump: 160 x 180 x 250 cm approx.
Gelatin silver prints
7 parts: 38 x 56,5 cm each, (unframed)
7 parts: 53,6 x 72,1 x 2,8 cm each, (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Ceppo Sradicato (series of black and white photographs), 2019

Gelatin silver print on Ilford warmtone paper
7 part: 38 x 56,5 cm each, (unframed)
7 part: 53,6 x 72,1 x 2,8 cm each, (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Baalbek Brazil Series, 2018

Digital Fine Art inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
50 x 300 cm approx. (overall)
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Christoph Keller
Néant, 2017

Neon
32 x 72 x 4 cm
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Christoph Keller
Grey Magic - Spirals (Green Spiral), 2015

Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper
58,8 x 46,2 x 3 cm (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Mental Radio, 2015

Lamp, tripod, cot, pillow, pillowcase, blanket, side table, custom-made goggles, wireless MP3 headphones, audio loop, questionnaire, clipboard, egg timer
Dimensions variable
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Christoph Keller
Title Tool for an Imaginary Cinema, 2015

Lightbox, plastic letters
60 x 250 x 12,5 cm
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Christoph Keller
Passage de Pera, 2010

Lambda-Color
11,5 x 218 cm (image)
17 x 223 cm (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Continuum, 2010

Lambda-Color
16,5 x 122,5 cm (image)
20,5 x 127 cm (framed)
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Christoph Keller
Ohne Titel (Inverse Observatories), 2007

Piezo-Pigment Fine Art print
42 x 60 x 3 cm each, 5 parts
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Christoph Keller
Visiting a contemporary art museum under hypnosis, 2006

Single-channel video with two streams, HD, sound, English/French subtitles
Duration: 23:00 min
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Christoph Keller
Heaven & Sky, 2003

Installation with satellite dish, beamer projection, Cloudbuster, video camera, monitor, water pump, water
Dimensions variable
example
Christoph Keller
Rundum Alexanderplatz (mit Mikrofilmgerät), 1996

Microfilm viewer, Zeiss DL 2 for roll film
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Christoph Keller
Herbarium Amazonas, 2014

Fine Art Prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth
225 x 150 cm (unframed)
230,5 x 157,5 x 5 cm (framed)
example
Christoph Keller
Herbarium Amazonas - Sheets (3), 2014

Pigment-Print on Hahnemühle Rice Paper
110 x 85 cm (unframed)
115,6 x 90,3 x 3,5 cm (framed)
example
Christoph Keller
Herbarium Amazonas - Sheets (2), 2014

Pigment-Print on Hahnemühle Rice Paper
110 x 85 cm (unframed)
115,5 x 90,3 x 3,5 cm (framed)

Gallery Exhibitions

Future Archeologists Christoph Keller

Future Archeologists

Christoph Keller
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce a special presentation by Christoph Keller who since joining in 1997 has had six solo exhibitions with the gallery. On view will be Future Archeologist s , a new three-channel video installatio n.
June 8—July 6, 2023
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl, Tao Hui

Esther Schipper is pleased to bring together works by Christoph Keller, Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui. Christoph Keller has been with the gallery since 1997; Hito Steyerl and Tao Hui joined our...
June 27—August 17, 2019
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Grey Magic Christoph Keller

Grey Magic

Christoph Keller
Esther Schipper is pleased to present the sixth solo exhibition of Christoph Keller with the gallery. Grey Magic brings together themes from Keller’s ongoing aether project, his engagement with fringe science and...
June 27—September 5, 2015
Anarcheology Christoph Keller

Anarcheology

Christoph Keller
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Anarcheology, a special presentation by Christoph Keller. As part of his ongoing examination of the history of science and of the way in which knowledge is...
September 19—October 25, 2014
Verbal/Nonverbal Christoph Keller

Verbal/Nonverbal

Christoph Keller
The video Verbal/Nonverbal shows a number of test subjects against a neutral, white background, either individually or in pairs, in the context of an experimental test protocol. Each subject seats him or...
October 6—November 13, 2010
Summer Exhibition Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller

Summer Exhibition

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Christoph Keller
For this year’s summer exhibition Esther Schipper shows works by Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch and Christopher Keller. The scientific foundations of these works lay the basis for empirically comparable plans for getting...
July 22—September 12, 2009
Observatoires Christoph Keller

Observatoires

Christoph Keller
Christoph Keller’s third solo show at Esther Schipper centres on a telescope switched from receive to broadcast—its concave mirror reflects the light beam from a slide projector that is sent zigzagging via...
September 25—October 20, 2007
Cloudbuster Project Christoph Keller

Cloudbuster Project

Christoph Keller
In 1953 the Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich began to experiment with the Cloudbuster, a device he had created to influence the atmosphere, to make it rain or keep it from raining –...
November 14—December 20, 2003
Space Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger

Space

Matti Braun, Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pia Greschner, Carsten Höller, Christoph Keller, Vogt+Weizenegger
November 19, 1999—January 15, 2000
tunnel & lightbox Christoph Keller

tunnel & lightbox

Christoph Keller
The exhibition tunnel&lightbox consists of two works in space that complement and comment on each other. Using simple material and construction principles, 40 hardboard panels are screwed together to form an approx....
November 21—December 19, 1998
Gruppenausstellung Matti Braun, Pia Greschner, Christoph Keller, Les Schliesser

Gruppenausstellung

Matti Braun, Pia Greschner, Christoph Keller, Les Schliesser
When we were almost done remodelling the gallery unexpected technical complications came up that forced us to postpone the originally planned exhibition with Paul Graham and Diana Thater. Thus the first exhibition's...
September 5—October 18, 1997

External Exhibitions

Exhibition view: Christoph Keller, Data Error – Roma Antichità, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, 2023. Photo © Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Enrico Fontolan)

Data Error – Roma Antichità

Christoph Keller
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome hosts the exhibition Data Error – Roma Antichità by Christoph Keller.
February 16—April 14, 2023
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Die Villa Massimo zu Gast im Gropius Bau with Christoph Keller

Die Villa Massimo zu Gast im Gropius Bau

with Christoph Keller
February 21, 2019
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Conversation Piece | Part IV “Giant steps are what you take' with Christoph Keller

Conversation Piece | Part IV “Giant steps are what you take"

with Christoph Keller
Memmo Foundation presents Conversation Piece | Part IV, a new appointment for a cycle of exhibitions, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, dedicated to Italian and foreign artists who are temporarily present in Rome...
December 17, 2017—March 18, 2018
Fondazione Memmo, Rome
Zehn Räume, drei Loggien und ein Saal with Christoph Keller

Zehn Räume, drei Loggien und ein Saal

with Christoph Keller
September 19, 2015—January 10, 2016
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Small Survey on Nothingness Christoph Keller

Small Survey on Nothingness

Christoph Keller
In Small Survey on Nothingness, the artist Christoph Keller investigates the relationship of nothingness to the ambivalent medium of ether in the context of art and science. While ether has been investigated...
July 7—October 4, 2014
Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Æther. From Cosmology to Consciousness Christoph Keller

Æther. From Cosmology to Consciousness

Christoph Keller
Aether, one could say, is the unknown. But how can the unconceivable be conceived? The answer is multifold: From Plato‘s fifth element to Descartes one can find a multitude of philosophical-theological and...
February 16—March 7, 2011
Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2nd Bienal del Fin del Mundo with Christoph Keller

2nd Bienal del Fin del Mundo

with Christoph Keller
April 24—May 25, 2009
Ushuaia, Argentina
Observatorium Christoph Keller

Observatorium

Christoph Keller
Christoph Keller (born 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau) situates himself in his works at the point of intersection between art and science. The title Observatorium does not only designate a series of...
March 8—May 12, 2008
Kunstverein Braunschweig

Featured stories

Christoph Keller Receives the Berlin Artistic Research Grant for 2020/2021
News

Christoph Keller Receives the Berlin Artistic Research Grant for 2020/2021

Esther Schipper congratulates Christoph Keller on being awarded the Berlin Artistic Research Grant for 2020/2021. The Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme supports and encourages artistic research across disciplines and dialogue between the...
Christoph Keller at Gropius Bau
Gropius Bau, Berlin

Christoph Keller at Gropius Bau

For one night only on February 21, 2019, at 7.30pm, Christoph Keller will present Ceppo sradicato in the group exhibition Villa Massimo zu Gast im Gropius Bau at Gropius Bau, Berlin.
February 21, 2019, 7.30pm
Christoph Keller receives scholarship of German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
Villa Massimo, Rome

Christoph Keller receives scholarship of German Academy Rome Villa Massimo

Christoph Keller will receive the prestigious scholarship of German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. The artist has been awarded numerous grants and residencies and will begin his stipend in September 2017. Read more

Publications

Christoph Keller Paranomia

Christoph Keller

Paranomia
'The term 'Paranomia' has multiple meanings, one of them being that which exists alongside the normative. In this inquiry into the entangled aspects of science and contemporary art, Christoph Keller draws a...
2016
Christoph Keller Dopostoria

Christoph Keller

Dopostoria
Language: Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead — and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on...
2023