S~u~n~s~e~t, 60 × 70 cm, Walnut oil and oil colour on canvas , 2022. Photo: Anaïs Defago Installation view, Double Heart, 2022, Display@Projektraum13, Zurich, Duo exhibition, curated by Marie DuPasquier
Christina Krys Huber live and work in Berlin, Germany and Basel, Switzerland. Their artistic practice includes painting, text, video and performance. In it, they investigate contemporary social, political and mental influences that shape experiences of longing, memory and protest. They are particularly interested in physical and sensory aspects and the ways in which these determine our perception.
After studying abroad at Central Saint Martins (UAL) in London in 2018, they graduated with honours as a master student of Valérie Favre in Fine Arts at the UdK Berlin. Their works have been shown at Display, Berlin (2022), Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (2021), Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2020), Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland (online project; 2020), Kunst(zeug)haus Rapperswil, Switzerland (2020), Tate Exchange Tate Modern, London (2019), among others. Her graduate project was nominated in 2021 for the President’s Prize of the UdK Berlin as well as the Elsa Neumann Scholarship (Nafög). In 2022 she received a scholarship from Stiftung Kunstfonds/ Neustart Kultur. In 2023 they attend the Biennale für Freiburg 2.
BIO
Education
2014 – 2021 Fine art studies, University of Arts, Berlin, graduation Meisterschülerin with honors in the class of Valérie Favre
2018 Fine art studies, Central Saint Martins UAL London
Solo and group exhibitions (selection 2017 – 2022)
2023 The Song of the street, Biennale for Freiburg with somebody*ies
2023 Tropez, Berlin
2023 Loop Project Space, Berlin curated by Barbara Borges 2022 Double Heart, Projektraum 13, Zurich, curated by Marie DuPasquier (duo exhibition), Zurich Art Weekend
2022 Here To Stay, Kunstverein Weil am Rhein, Stapfelhus, Weil am Rhein (with somebody*ies)
2022 This is Our House, Villa Renata, Garage, Basel (with somebody*ies)
2022 Walk Their Path, Outdoor Performance with somebody*ies, Louise Otto Peters Straße, Freiburg
2022 Darling You Should Feel Lucky, Display, Berlin, curated by Marie DuPasquier (solo exhibtion)
2022 Talking About Transmutation (Lecture Performance), DOCK, Basel together with Stella Meris
2022 Because Of Spring, Raum für Sichtbarkeit, Berlin
2021 Walk Their Path, Cécile-Ines-Loos Platz, Basel, with the artist collective somebody*ies
2021 Rebound, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 2021 It‘s only the end, UdK Berlin graduates, Kühlhaus, Berlin, curated by Klara Hülskamp and Philipp Lange
2021 Stretch, Lovaas Projects, München, curated by Philipp Lange
2020 Animation Of Dead Material, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Bernard Vienat
2020 Weltuntergang, Display, Berlin, organised by Constantin Hartenstein
2020 Walkie Talkie Projekt, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Schweiz (Online Projekt), curated by Hilar Stadler and David Glanzmann
2019 Grosse Regionale, Kunst(zeug)haus Rapperswil, Rapperswil, Schweiz, curated by Josiane Imhasly and Céline Gaillard
2019 Jahresgabenfest der Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, University of Arts, Berlin
2019 Junge Kunst Olten, Schützi Olten, Olten, Switzerland
2019 KiW, bereitsPASSIERT, Berlin, curated by Dorothea Douglas, Søren August Vallø Jacobsen (solo exhibition)
2019 Art and politics in a climate of change, Tate Modern, Tate Exchange, London curated by Alex Schady
2018 Wihajster Freiheit Swallow =, Salon Academy Gallery, Warsaw 2018 Kein Capri, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
2017 Traphouse, Kunsthaus Torstrasse 111, Berlin
Fundings / Nominations
2022 Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur
2021 Project funding Kanton Basel Stadt
2021 Project funding alliance F/ Stiftung Mercator Switzerland
2021 Selection Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis for painting 2022
2020 Final selection for the nomination Nafög/ Elsa Neumann scholarship
2020 Nomination for the price of the president UdK Berlin
2020 Final exam scholarship Studentenwerk UdK Berlin
2019 Stipend of the European Union
Residencies
2022 Residence Secondaire II, Display Berlin, Zurich
2022 CRAC Alsace, France (with somebody*ies)
Networks and Memberships
Freelancer at Berlin Biennale Member of somebody*ies collective Freelancer at the art association art-werk, Project (re)connecting.earth