Christoph Weber

Born in: 1974
From: Vienna, Austria
Lives and works: Vienna, Austria
Represented by: Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Website: http://christophweber.org/

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Biography

Concrete is not an easy material to control, but artist Christoph Weber has chosen to build his artistic practice around it to unveil its surprisingly fragile nature. If we look at most modern cities, concrete is used to build bridges and infrastructure, transmitting with it an idea of stability accompanied by power. Weber choses to show us cracked structures, fragmented chunks of concrete so as to show that if a material as “violent” and brutal as this can break, so can power structures.

But Weber also investigates the properties of geometric objects, taking a slight distance from the corporeal sphere and pointing towards mental states, mental disciplines such as philosophy. Through this prism, his work and that of Nobuo Sekine are compatible, for they delve on the transformative nature of space and time.

Weber’s interest in forms links him to Paul Cézanne’s work, geometry being a primary question for the artists: observation and deconstruction of forms is always at the core of their aesthetic process.

Career highlights

Solo shows

2019, Anna Marra Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy: FRAGILE
2016, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany: Carton/pierre
2013, Ibid, London, UK: Uncast
2012, Project SD, Barcelona, Spain: 10, 25, 80
2008, Vienna, Austria: Opening of BAWAG Contemporary

Group shows

2022, Musée du Louvre Tuileries Garden, Paris, France: The Rest of the Story
2021, Vienna Biennial for Change 2021, Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria: Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, A Mak Exhibition
2019, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China: Discrete Austrian Secrets
2015, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France: Mortel, Suite et Fin
2013, Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, New York, USA: An Eye for an I