CHRISTOPH ZIEGLER

Christoph Ziegler has a background in sculpture, installation, and performance. His large-scale works (2005–20) explore the intersection of construction and social interaction in public space. From 2010 to 2022 he developed Moebling, a performative dialogue between the human body, furniture, and household objects. Since 2015, Ziegler is working with jewelry and wearable art, with exhibitions in London, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Munich, Valencia, Mons, and Leipzig.

Ziegler is publisher of the print and online medium SMCK Magazine, and has curated international group shows and the video festival SMCK On Reel together with his partner Loukia Richards.

His art projects have been commissioned by institutions including the Federal Agency for the Environment (UBA), the Bauhaus Foundation, Thikwa Theater, the Gauloises Variété Liberté Art Festival, and The Open Museum–Kunsthalle Hamburg. He has presented solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Dresden, Leipzig, Weimar, Amsterdam, Athens, Leonidio, Marseille, and Skopje.

Ziegler studied sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, Marseille. He was awarded a work grant by the Schloss Plüschow Foundation (2010) and was Artist in Residence with the ACC Gallery–City of Weimar AIR Programme (2011). He is also a scholar of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.

Awards/Distinctions

• Nominated for the European Prize for Applied Art, MAESTRIA, Mons, Belgium, 2024 • Nominated for the Herbert Hofmann Prize at SCHMUCK Munich, 2023 • Second prize of the Hamburg Art Festival "Altonale", Germany, 2013 • Nominated for the Art Award of the City of Hamburg, Germany, 2012 • The Künstlerdorf Schoeppingen grant, Germany 2011 • The Robert Bosch Foundation grant for the public art project The Utopian Institute in Skopje, FYRepublic of Macedonia, 2010 • Artist in Residence at the ACC Gallery - City of Weimar AIR Programme, Germany, 2009 • The Schloss Plüschow Foundation grant, Germany, 2008 • Erasmus-Grant for studies at École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille/France, 2003/2004

Lectures

• Jewelry & the Moving Image, with Loukia Richards – SMCK Magazine online lecture • Opening Up on Jewellery, with Loukia Richards – Podcast on British Academy of Jewelry, 2022 • Jewellery and network projects, with Loukia Richards – Glanz&Kante posdact, 2022 • Art Funding (with Loukia Richards). Museum of Contemporary Art Athens/Greece, 2018 • Nacht der Aesthetik. Goethe Institut Athens/Greece, 2017 • The "Urbane Farm" Brainstorming. Bauhaus Foundation Dessau/Germany, 2014 • „On Art and Design“. Stilwerk, Hamburg/Germany, 2013

Collections

• The Grassi Museum Collection, Leipzig/Germany • Marjan Unger Collection, Amsterdam/Netherlands • Sarah Visbeek & Jeroen Redel Collection, Amsterdam/Netherlands • H.S.Dorlandt-Collection, Amsterdam/Netherlands

Curatorial work

• SMCK On Reel international video festival for jewelry and wearable art, 2022–present • Publisher and co-curator of SMCK Magazine For Independent Artists, 2020–present • FaveLAB artist platform supporting Greek-German cultural exchange, 2018–present • Initiation exhibition series (Munich/Amsterdam 2017-2018. Co-curator: Loukia Richards) • Myths exhibition series (Berlin-Hamburg-Munich-Amsterdam 2013-16. Co-curator: Loukia Richards)

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