Christoffer Joergensen’s practice explores the complex interplay between material reality and the human imagination. Employing photography as a placeholder for our intuitive perception of the world, he subjects the medium to a series of transformations, at times alienating it to the point of abstraction. In the process of combining photography with other techniques, from ancient handcrafts to the latest digital software, he uncovers deeper, more timeless layers of reality.
Joergensen has been consistently refining and expanding on his long-term projects for the past 15 years. At the same time, his practice is rooted in today’s ever-evolving media and cultural techniques. His work mirrors the inner conflict experienced by so many, today, between the creation of an inalterable personal identity and life in a constantly changing world of interrelated systems and networks. It is faster and easier than ever to create and consume pictures, today. Joergensen reintroduces the elements of time and contemplation into the medium of photography by slowing down the production and reception of his pictures and video works. In his experience, art can give us timelessness only if we give it time.
Selected Artworks
# (People & Hat)
2023
Pic+Pic=#
2023
# (Two Dudes)
2023
The Pale Zone X-C
2019
The Pale Zone X-B
2019
Biography
Born Denmark, 1978
Education 2014-2015 CAS Teaching Artist,
Hochschule der Künste, Berne
2002-2004 Master in Fotografie,
Royal College of Art, London
1999-2002 First Class Degree, BA
Honours, Byam Shaw School of Art,
London
Resides Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland
Solo Exhibitions
2020 ALL THE TIME, attheoff.space, Zurich
2019 Dream Recall, Galleri Christoffer
Egelund, Copenhagen
2016 Altered States, Galleri Christoffer
Egelund, Copenhagen
2015 Melilla Panorama, Galerie F5, Lucerne
2015 Take Me There, Gallery Elena
Shchukina, London
2014 Among Them, ArtHobler, Zurich
2014 Sphere Frontier, Galleri Christoffer
Egeldund, Copenhagen
2013 YOU AND I ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT,
VOLTA 9 Messe, mit Galleri Christoffer
Egelund, Basel
2012 Union of Strangers, Galleri Christoffer
Egelund, Copenhagen
2012 Gaze, Galerie Müller, Lucerne
2011 Ohne Titel, Galerie im Zöpfli, Lucerne
2010 No Man‘s Centre, Galerie F5, Lucerne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 KI: Kausale Inferenz, Tankturm,
Heidelberg
2023 Ars Electronica Festival, Live
Show Kollaboration mit Noémi
Büchi, Linz
2023 The Blood of a Poet, attheoff.space,
Zurich
2022 Filter Bubble, attheoff.space,
Schwamendingen
2021 Summertime, Galleri Christoffer
Egelund, Copenhagen
2020 Summer Group Show, Galleri
Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
2020 Hybrid Art Fair, attheoff.space, Madrid
2019 Xmas, Galleri Christoffer Egelund,
Copenhagen
2018 Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer
Kunstschaffen, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2017 Jahresausstellung Zentralschweizer
Kunstschaffen, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2016 Kunst Zürich Messe, Galerie ArtHobler,
Zurich
2016 Kunst für Menschlichkeit, Tramdepot
Burgenziel, Berne
2016 Contemporary Visions, Beers Galerie,
London
2015 Map of the New Art, Benetton
Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini,
Venedig
2015 Artcontainer Steffisburg, Berne
2015 Wege der Menschlichkeit, 150 Jahre
Internationales Rotes Kreuz, Bourbaki
Panorama, Lucerne
2014 Kunst Zürich Messe, Galerie ArtHobler,
Zurich
2014 Contemporary Art from Denmark,
European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Public Collections
2015 Dänish Chamber of Commerce
2014 European Central Bank,
Frankfurt
2012 Kanton Lucerne
2010 Kanton Lucerne