About
Christian Doeller is a visual artist, artistic researcher and educator. He operates with participatory formats, process-based installations and generative artifacts. In his experimental practice, he explores how technologies, scientific research methods, conceptual systems and models influence our worldviews and their political, social, and epistemological dimensions. With a background in photography and a strong interest in physics, he investigates digital sensing technologies and their potential for monitoring, archiving, transforming, and interpreting physical phenomena. He is fascinated by entanglements and transitions between physical and digital realities, creational potentials of so-called errors, DIY and DIWO approaches as well as embodiment strategies and contemporary ideas of social sculptures. Christian Doeller is a lecturer at the Chair of Media Environments at Bauhaus University Weimar and a member of the curatorial team of KV - Kunstverein Leipzig. He lives and works in Leipzig.
Exhibitions / Performances
2023
Glitch. Die Kunst der Störung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (upcoming)
Lab.30 Festival, Augsburg
Metabol, Husslehof, Frankfurt am Main
Guests, Hosts and Ghosts, Internationales kunstzentrum Petersberg, Ostrau
Splatters of Noise, Institute for Malfunction, Leipzig
2022
Speculative Sensing I - Light Sensor, IDEAL art space, Skulpturenpark Neustadt, Leipzig
Where Are We Now?, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2021
Neue Aussichten, Goethe-Institut Seoul, South Korea
Und/Oder, Galerie In der Lände, Kressbronn
CYTTER.datalab (wl-87), offspace / web (solo)
CYTTER, Matjö Raum für Kunst, Cologne (solo)
2020
Parallel Worlds, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle
Blue Quarantine, Monopol, Leipzig
CYTTER.datalab (ICS_ml61), offspace, Leipzig
CYTTER.datalab (ICS_dl01), LEW1, Darmstadt
2019
Waste and Void, church St. Bonifaz, Erlangen
Transcription, in dialogue with Steina Vašulka, Vašulka Kitchen Brno,
Brno, Czech Republic
HUM. Generative Experiments with Form and Sound,
Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
From the Lab to the Studio,
Gallerie Eigenheim, Berlin
2018
Virtualities,
offspace, Weimar (solo)
Aktion! 1. städtische Kunstsammlung,
offspace, Kassel
Replay, Galeriefest 2018,
Neue Galerie, Kassel
Verborgenes Licht,
Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
2017
Shared Habitats,
Art Center NKNU, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Human Factor,
Warte für Kunst, Kassel (solo)
Bewegtes Land,
Inszenierungen für vorbeifahrende Züge
Jena Paradies-Naumburg
Sort the Colours,
ItsNotLikeThis-collective, shoelace factory, Erfurt
2016
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Lincolnhaus, Darmstadt
Agar! Agar! Schillerpalais, Berlin
2015
Large Half-Marathon Circuit, Performance, Switzerland/France
In der Schwebe, Park Aqua Magica, Bad Oeynhausen
Konkrete Kunst, Kunstverein Bad Nauheim
Lichtbild und Datenbild, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg
Habitability Complex, FH Bielefeld
2014
Raum 21 No. 4, civic center, Bielefeld
Looking for Something # 2: Field Work, Artists Unlimited Gallery,
Bielefeld, (solo)
2013
Venture One, Performance, Nordpark Bielefeld
PreviewSpective, offspace, Cologne
High Altitude, CAU Seoul, Southkorea
Plus 1000 Fotofestival, Rossinière, Switzerland
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2023
shortlisted for public art competition M²plus as part of »Tools for Action«, Museum der bildenden Künste (MdbK) Leipzig
2022
scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021
project funding, NEUSTART KULTUR, BBK Bundesverband
2020
exhibition funding, Stiftung Kulturwerk, VG Bild-Kunst
project funding, Kulturstitung des Freistaates Sachsen
Artist in Residence, Kultur einer Digitalstadt e.V., Darmstadt
2019
shortlisted, Bauhaus Media Art Award 2019
Artist in Residence, Vašulka Kitchen, Brno, Czech Republic
Plat(t)form 2019, portfolio walk,
Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland
2017
Artist in Residence, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads, UK
Artist in Residence (ItsNotLikeThis – collective),
offspace, Erfurt
2012
DAAD grant for studying aborad
Collections
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Publications
2021
CYTTER.log, artist book, self publishing
in: Ursula Damm, Mindaugas Gapsevicius (eds.), Shared Habitats. A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants, Transcript Verlag
2020
in Photo Researcher No. 33, European Society for the History of Photography, Franziska Kunze, The Digital Body: An Instrospection of the Mediation of Expanded Photographic Practices
2019
in Franziska Kunze, Opake Fotografien: Das Sichtbarmachen fotografischer Materialität als künstlerische Strategie, Reimer Verlag
in Suse Wiegand, SIEBEN, Über das Ein- und Zurichten von Dingen im Raum, artist book, self publishing
2018
Ontology Generator, artist book, self publishing
in Monthly Photography, Photography Magazine, South Korea
2016
in HANT – Magazin für Fotografie, Ausgabe 08
2015
in Henrike Holsing, Gottfried Jäger, Bernd Stiegler, Lichtbild und Datenbild: Spuren Konkreter Fotografie, KEHRER Verlag
Habitable Zone, artist book, self publishing
Teaching
2023
Artificial Artificial Life, performative workshop, Departement of Media Theory, Bauhaus-University Weimar
since 2022
lecturer for Media Environments, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2022
Sensors and Data Loggers, workshop, ExMediaLab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2021
teaching assignment, Media Environments, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2019
Picturing Objects, workshop, Neudeli, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2018
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
Artist in Residence, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Allenheads, UK
Artist in Residence (ItsNotLikeThis – collective), offspace, Erfurt
2012
DAAD grant for studying aborad
CYTTER.log, artist book, self publishing
in: Ursula Damm, Mindaugas Gapsevicius (eds.), Shared Habitats. A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants, Transcript Verlag
2020
in Photo Researcher No. 33, European Society for the History of Photography, Franziska Kunze, The Digital Body: An Instrospection of the Mediation of Expanded Photographic Practices
2019
in Franziska Kunze, Opake Fotografien: Das Sichtbarmachen fotografischer Materialität als künstlerische Strategie, Reimer Verlag
in Suse Wiegand, SIEBEN, Über das Ein- und Zurichten von Dingen im Raum, artist book, self publishing
2018
Ontology Generator, artist book, self publishing
in Monthly Photography, Photography Magazine, South Korea
2016
in HANT – Magazin für Fotografie, Ausgabe 08
2015
in Henrike Holsing, Gottfried Jäger, Bernd Stiegler, Lichtbild und Datenbild: Spuren Konkreter Fotografie, KEHRER Verlag
Habitable Zone, artist book, self publishing
Teaching
2023
Artificial Artificial Life, performative workshop, Departement of Media Theory, Bauhaus-University Weimar
since 2022
lecturer for Media Environments, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2022
Sensors and Data Loggers, workshop, ExMediaLab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2021
teaching assignment, Media Environments, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2019
Picturing Objects, workshop, Neudeli, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2018
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
in Franziska Kunze, Opake Fotografien: Das Sichtbarmachen fotografischer Materialität als künstlerische Strategie, Reimer Verlag
in Suse Wiegand, SIEBEN, Über das Ein- und Zurichten von Dingen im Raum, artist book, self publishing
2018
Ontology Generator, artist book, self publishing
in Monthly Photography, Photography Magazine, South Korea
2016
in HANT – Magazin für Fotografie, Ausgabe 08
2015
in Henrike Holsing, Gottfried Jäger, Bernd Stiegler, Lichtbild und Datenbild: Spuren Konkreter Fotografie, KEHRER Verlag
Habitable Zone, artist book, self publishing
Teaching
2023
Artificial Artificial Life, performative workshop, Departement of Media Theory, Bauhaus-University Weimar
since 2022
lecturer for Media Environments, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2022
Sensors and Data Loggers, workshop, ExMediaLab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2021
teaching assignment, Media Environments, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2019
Picturing Objects, workshop, Neudeli, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2018
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
lecturer for Media Environments, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2022
Sensors and Data Loggers, workshop, ExMediaLab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2021
teaching assignment, Media Environments, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2019
Picturing Objects, workshop, Neudeli, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2018
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
teaching assignment, Media Environments, Faculty of Arts and Design, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2019
Picturing Objects, workshop, Neudeli, Bauhaus-University Weimar
2018
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
Dark Chamber, workshop / guest lecture, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin
2017
Tired Machines, workshop / guest lecture, National Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2016
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Talks / Presentations
2023
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media,
Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Curatorial
2023
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
Education
2018
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt
Machine perception in physical environments, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Sensor Hacklab, Assistant, Bauhaus-University Weimar
Systems at Play. A Self-Organising Symposium On Self-Organisation, CLEA - Center Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2021
Epistemologien der Sensorsysteme, Universität Regensburg
Artist Talk, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Artist Talk, Open Lab, KHM – Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Artist Talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
12th International Conference on Artistic Research, Society for Artistic Research
Artist Talk, Chung-Ang University, Sculpture Department, Seoul, Southkorea
2020
Basisdemokratisch Kuratieren?, with KV – Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Universität Hildesheim
Artist Talk, Authentic Spaces, Artist-in-Residence program by This is Fake - collective, Zeitz
2019
Artist Talk, Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU), Performance and Media, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic
Artist Talk, Brno Art Week, The House of the Lords of Kunstát, Brno, Czech Republic
Non-Machines. Playground of Perspectives, Bauhaus-University Weimar / Ars Electronica Festival Linz
since 2022
Board member of KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
since 2019
Part of curatorial collective, KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
2019
HUM: Generative Experimente mit Form und Klang, Studio Wägetechnik, Weimar
M.F.A Media Arts
Bauhaus-University, Weimar
Prof. Ursula Damm
2015
B.A. Photography and Media
Univ. of Appl. Sciences, Bielefeld
Prof. Suse Wiegand
2012
Photography and Sculpture
Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Southkorea
2009
Physics studies
Technical University, Darmstadt