Christoph Draeger
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Project(s) at West
2011.11
Christoph Draeger
 
*1965 Switzerland — works and lives in Switzerland
 

Education
1986 - 1990
School of Visual Arts Luzerne, Switzerland
1990 - 1991
Ecole Nat. Superieur des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgiumresidencies
 

recent solo exhibitions (selection)
2011
Temporary Wall of Voodoo, West, The Hague, The Netherlands
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Black Zero, performance with Aldo Tambellini and Henry Grimes, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
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Tsunami Architecture, in collaboration with Heidrun Holzfeind
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OK Centrum for Contemporary Art curated by Martin Sturm, Linz, Switzerland
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Kunsthalle Arbon, curated by Inge Abegglen, Switzerland
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Apocalipso Place, collaboration with Reynold Reynolds, Lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland
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Breaking The Wave, Y Gallery, 165 Orchard St, New York, USA
2010
Debris, Para_SITE Gallery, Graz, Austria
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Tales from the Underworld, Rodeo12, Geneva, Switzerland
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Monumental, Y Gallery, New York, USA
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Cow Maze, Frohe Aussicht, Samstagern ZH, Switzerland
2009
Black Zero, with Aldo Tambellini + Group Center, Performa 09,Performance at White Box, New York, USA
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Bro_ken, Galerie Luciano Fascati, Chur, Switzerland
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Frohe Aussicht und Kunst (July 15-fall 2010, curated by Martin Blum), Samstagern, Kt Zürich, Switzerland
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The End of Remake: Tropolicalia, CCA, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowskie Castle, Warsaw, Poland
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El Fin, Y Gallery, Jackson Heights, New York, USA
2008
The End of The Remake, Roebling Hall, New York, USA
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Music is the healing force of the universe, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
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Oil Paintings, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2007
HELENÉS, LivingRoom, Cologne, Germany
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Black September, Monty, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Le Radeau de la Macumba, Bonlieu, Annecy, France
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Rough Air,Marti, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
Old Works, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
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The future’s bright the future’s black, Out of Disaster Festival, Brotfabrik, Berlin (curated by Petra Schroeck), Germany
2005
Munich, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, USA
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The Brazil Project (in collaboration w/Gary Breslin), Roebling Hall, New York, USA
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Constructio Infernalis, mullerdechiara gallery, Berlin, Germany
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White Cube, Umea, Sweden
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2004
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New Landscapes, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
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Damnation Road (with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People), The Kitchen, New York, USA
2003
Memories of Terror From a Safe Distance, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn, Switzerland
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Black September, Art Unlimited, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Basel, Switzerland
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Tueur Né, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
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Black September, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2002
Beaufort 12, Expo 02, Arteplage, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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The Last Rider, Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
2001
If you lived here you would be dead now, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, USA
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Crash, Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Them or Us (curated by Annette Röhr and Hermann Nöring), European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
2000
Inundacions (curated by Chus Martinez), CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain
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Voyages, Galerie Urs Meile Luzern, Switzerland
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Teenage Riot (curated by Heike Munder and Bernd Milla), Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
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Tueur né/Natural Born Killer (curated by Sylvie Froux), Le Parvis, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Ibos-Tarbes, France
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St. Gervais (curated by André Iten), Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
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Apocalypso Place/Fall Season (in collaboration w/ Reynold Reynolds, curated by Tobia Bezzola), Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
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Going All The Way (curated by Martin Schwander), Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Apocalypso Place (in collaboration w/ Reynold Reynolds), LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
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CRASH, Foerderkoje, Galerie Urs Meile, Art Cologne, Germany
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Lakehurst NJ, Zeppelinmuseum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Action//Time//Vision (Alternative TV), Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
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Yellow and Red (in collaboration w/ Martin Frei and Thomas Thuemena), Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunauvarnos, Ungarn, Germany
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Out of the Blue-Into the Black, Damasquine Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1998
New York-Serneus retour, Kulturhaus Rosengarten, Gruesch, Switzerland
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Make Believe (curated by Christoph Doswald), Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Puzzled, Statements, Galerie Urs Meile, Art 29, Basel, Switzerland
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OEL, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
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NB (and Biefer/Zgraggen, curated by Pierre André Lienard), Kunsthalle, St.Gallen, Switzerland
1996
How Far You Are, Passage Placette, Belluard Fribourg, Switzerland
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It's the end of the world as we love it (in collaboration w/ Martin Frei, curated by Harm Lux), Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
1994
M.U.S.E.U.M. (usa-united swiss artists, curated by Martin Schwander), Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Switzerland
1993
Critical Distance (with OCI, curated by Luk Lambrecht), ADO Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
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Schleutelwerken, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991
SOLO, Etablissements d'en Face, Brussels, Belgium