Christoph Kilian

Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

Artist statement

Christoph Kilian, graduate of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Bauhaus-University Weimar, still on his way into the Bermuda Triangle. Amid cross-media interplay and clashes with technology, machinic tales unfold. Often on the verge of futility, they trace the magical.

Artwork

• The California Snow Leopard, 2023. telescope, animatronic sculpture
• Between Lilies, 2024. modular structure composed of lilies, scales, displays, motors, silk-braided copper wire, electronics, and a water basin
• To Whom It May Concern:, 2023. silicone, glass roving fabric
• If you touch me, you’ll understand what happiness is, 2017
• sketch 2 for ‚If you touch me, you’ll understand what happiness is‘, 2019. triptych of heliogravure printmaking plates, depicting the cooling chamber just before final assembly. copper, mirror polished, each 21,6 x 27,9 cm (US Letter size) steel bracket and arm, originally for lights on film sets
• ==ashes, 2010. flue ash, light bulbs, fans, electronics, rechargeable batteries, air