Christoph Keller studied mathematics, physics, and hydrology in Berlin and Santiago de Chile before
studying art in Berlin and Cologne. As one of the outstanding contemporary artists who engage with
scientific phenomena and utopia, he artistically translates scientific methods, processes and images
into spaces that can be experienced emotionally and physically.
In 2011, he was the lead artist-curator for the exhibition and event series „Æther – From Cosmology to
Conscience” at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. The exhibition examined the relations between
science, photography and art in the modern era with the participation of 70 international artists as well
as 20 scientists, art historians, and philosophers.
Between 2007 and 2009, he directed the research project EnTrance at the Bern University of the Arts,
which dealt with trance and the artistic representation of altered states of consciousness.
Christoph Keller currently teaches art, film, and photography as a visiting professor in the media arts
department at the State University of Art and Design in Karlsruhe as well as in the „Option
Construction” (sculpture department) at the Geneva University of Art and Design.
His works have been shown internationally and have won him numerous awards and fellowships,
including the Ars Viva award of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI, a PS1 Fellowship in
New York, a Recollets residency in Paris, and a BM-Suma residency in Istanbul.