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(*catalogue)



Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2008


The End of The Remake, Roebling Hall, New York

Music is the healing force of the universe, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco (April 26 2008 - June 7/ with Reuben Lorch-Miller) www.cclarkgallery.com

Oil Paintings, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris www.annedevillepoix.com


2007

HELENÉS, LivingRoom, Cologne, Germany  http://www.degrussa.com

Black September, Monty, Antwerpen, Belgium  www.monty.be 

Le Radeau de la Macumba, Bonlieu, Annecy, France

Rough Air, Amberg&Marti, Zurich


2006

Old Works, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (w/ Sam Samore)

The future’s bright the future’s black, Out of Disaster Festival

Brotfabrik, Berlin (curated by Petra Schroeck)


2005

Munich, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles

The Brazil Project, Roebling Hall, New York (in collaboration w/Gary Breslin)

Constructio Infernalis, mullerdechiara gallery, Berlin

White Cube, Umea, Sweden 


2004

New Landscapes, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco

Damnation Road (with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People), The Kitchen, New York


2003

Memories of Terror From a Safe Distance, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn *

Black September, Art Unlimited, Basel (Galerie Anne de Villepoix)

Tueur Né, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Black September, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York


2002

Beaufort 12, Expo 02, Arteplage, Neuchatel, Switzerland

The Last Rider, Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland

If you lived here you would be dead now, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn

Crash, Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen

Them or Us, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany (curated by Annette Röhr and Hermann Nöring)


2000

Inundacions, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain (curated by Chus Martinez)

Voyages, Galerie Urs Meile Luzern, Switzerland

Teenage Riot, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany*(curated by Heike Munder and Bernd Milla)

Tueur né/Natural Born Killer, Le Parvis, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Ibos-Tarbes, France *(curated by Sylvie Froux)

St. Gervais, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva (curated by André Iten)  

Apocalypso Place/Fall Season, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (in collaboration w/ Reynold Reynolds, curated by Tobia Bezzola) * 

Going All The Way, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland (curated by Martin Schwander)


1999

Apocalypso Place, LiebmanMagnan Gallery, New York, New York (in collaboration w/ Reynold Reynolds)

CRASH, Foerderkoje, Galerie Urs Meile, Art Cologne, Germany

Lakehurst NJ, Zeppelinmuseum, Friedrichshafen, Germany *

Action//Time//Vision (Alternative TV), Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland *

Yellow and Red, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunauvarnos, Ungarn, Germany 

(in collaboration w/ Martin Frei and Thomas Thuemena)

Out of the Blue-Into the Black, Damasquine Gallery, Brussels


1998

New York-Serneus retour, Kulturhaus Rosengarten, Gruesch, Switzerland *

Make Believe, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (curated by Christoph Doswald)*

Puzzled, Statements, Galerie Urs Meile, Art 29, Basel, Switzerland* 

OEL, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland

NB, Kunsthalle, St.Gallen, Switzerland (and Biefer/Zgraggen, curated by Pierre André Lienard)*


1996

How Far You Are, Passage Placette, Belluard Fribourg, Switzerland 

It's the end of the world as we love it, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland (in collaboration w/ Martin Frei, curated by Harm Lux)


1994

M.U.S.E.U.M., Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Switzerland* (usa-united swiss artists, 

curated by Martin Schwander) *


1993

Critical Distance, ADO Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (with OCI, curated by Luk Lambrecht)*, 

Schleutelwerken, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Holland (with OCI)


1991

SOLO, Etablissements d'en Face, Brussels, Belgium*




Selected Group Exhibitions (selection)


2008

Conceptual Art from California, NBK-Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (curated by Kathrin Becker)


Brandstiftung, K3, Zürich (curated by Markus Weiss)


UnStern, Sinistro, Desastro, ACC Galerie, Weimar (Aug 24- Nov 2,  curated by Frank Motz)


Tonight forget about your cars and houses

Union Gallery, London (15 July – 13 Sept 2008)

www.union-gallery.com


Strom des Vergessens, Aktienkeller, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (May 29-July 31 2008, curated by Martin Sturm) http://www.ok-centrum.at/

Leinzell Open. Again

Silvia und Helmut Wickleder Stiftung, Schloss Leinzell (June 15-August 17)


Lucifer’s Greatest Artwork, FRED, Leipzig (May 1st - June 22, curated by Rachael Lawe) www.fred-london.com

Katastrophenalarm, NGBK, Berlin (March 28-May 19 2008) www.ngbk.de

Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries, New Museum, New York  (February 27, 2008 - May 4, 2008, organized by Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City/ Jorge Munguía and Tobias Ostrander, guest curators) Museum as Hub space

YÄQ, La Planta, Guadalajara, Mexico, Nov 10-Feb 24 2008 (curated by Michel Blancsubé) http://www.laplanta.org/ (online review)


2007

The Landscape of War, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Nov 10 - Jan 12, 2008 (curated by Anne Birle Veh and Cathy Kimball) www.sjica.org

Culture hors sol, 12e Biennale de l'image en mouvement, BAC, Båtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva (Oct 12-Dec 16)  www.centreimage.ch (curated by André Iten) 

Red Badge of Courage, The National Newark Building, Newark, New Jersey, Oct 28-Dec 15, (curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)

Crash. Pause. Rewind. Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT, USA, Sep 6-Nov 24 (curated by Eric Frederickson) missoulaartmuseum.org

Reality Crossings,  2. Fotofestival Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg, Kunsthalle Heidelberg / Halle_02, Mannheim, Sept 21-Oct 21 (curated by Christoph Tannert) http://www.fotofestival-ma-lu-hd.de

MANUAL cc Instructions for beginners and advanced players, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland (Sep 15-Oct 1) www.kronika.org.pl

Môtiers 2007-Art en plein air, Môtiers, Switzerland, June 23-Sept 23 (organized by Pierre-André Delachaux) www.artmotiers.ch 

Fluchtwege und Sackgassen/Exits and Dead Ends, Festival der Regionen, Oberösterreich (curated by Martin Fritz)*> www.fdr.at

Une question de génération, MAC, musée d’art contemporain de Lyon(F)

(curated by Michel Ritter)> MY GENERATION

Petroliania, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Biennial 

(curated by Elena Sorokina)* OEL    2nd.moscowbiennale

Reality For TV, Transmediale, Berlin

Final Cut - Medienkunst und Kino, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, April 25  - May 20, 2007 (curated by Hermann Noering)

www.emaf.de

Last News, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / The Centre of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, Poland April 13 2007 - May 20 2007 (curated by exgirls)

http://www.laznia.pl

Theatrum Mundi, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, March 15th to April 28th

www.annedevillepoix.com

Space Control, ASSAB One, Milano, Italy, Mar 30-April 24 (curated by Magnus Müller) www.assab-one.org

The Landscape of War, 142Throckmorton Theatre, San Francisco (curated by Anne Birle Veh)


2006

Chocolates, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City (curated by Jose Springer)Absolumental, Abattoir, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Toulouse (curated by Pascal Pique)

Collection FracPaca, Collège Niki de Saint Phalle à Sophia Antipolis

Simulationsspiele, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg  (curated by Sabine Himmelsbach)

Political Realities, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (curated by Johan Holten)

Photo Trafic, Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Genf (curated by Joerg Bader)

Bad News, Galeria Kronika, Bytom (curated by exgirls: Magdalena Ujma & Joanna

Zielinska)

The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Leibzig (curated by Frank Motz)

Reprocessing Reality, P.S.1/MOMA, New York (curated by Claudia Spinelli) *

Un nuevo y bravo mundo, Alcala 31, Madrid (curated by El Perro) *


2005

11ieme Biennale de l'image en mouvement, "Focus_Christoph Draeger", Centre de l'Image contemporain, Geneva (curated by Andre Iten) *

Crash. Pause. Rewind. Western Bridge, Seattle (curated by Eric Fredericksen)

Screening War, ZKM Media Lounge, Karlsruhe, Curator: Thomas Thiel

Spielräume, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg (curated by Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel)*

After the Fact, 1st Berlin Photography Festival, Gropius Bau, Berlin (curated by Jan-Erik Lundstroem)*

BROOKLinVIDEO, FUTURA, Prague (curated by Alberto di Stefano)

Documentary NOW!, TENT. Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam* 

Reprocessing Reality, Chateau de Nyon (curated by Claudia Spinelli)*

Greater New York, P.S 1/MOMA, New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)*

Now's the time, Medienturm + Kunsthalle Graz (curated by Sandro Droschl)

RAF, Kunstwerke KW, Berlin and Neue Galerie, Graz (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)*


2004

In extremis, Abattoir, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Toulouse - Printemps de Toulouse* 

(curated by Pascal Pique and Jean Marie Bustamante)

Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York, New York (curated by Elena Sorokina)*

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York (curated by Charlotta Kotic)*Channel Zero, The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (curated by K. Gregos)

Terrorvision, Exit Art, New York

Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud)*


2003

Categories Post-Verité, Centro Parragà, Murcia, Spain*

Remakes, capc-Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (curated by Thierry Davila)

Nothing Special, the FACT Centre, Liverpool, England

Urban Diaries, Alcala 31 Contemporary Art Center, Madrid, Spain (curated by Sabine Saschl and Martin Schwander)*

Constructed Realities, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (curated by Sue Scott)

Disaster Areas, The Glass House, Amsterdam, Holland (curated by Ulay)

The Reconstruction Biennial, Exit Art, New York, New York

Mursolaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France (curated by Michael Ritter)


2002

Intimate, Paco des Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil*

Artists' Games, Public's Games, Kunstverein, Ulm, Germany (curated by Brigitte Haussmann)

GewaltBilder - Zur Aesthetik der Gewalt (Violent images - Aesthetics of violence), 

Museum Belrive, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Peter Stohler)/ 

(traveled to Museums Quartier, Fischer-Von-Erlach Trakt, Vienna*

Superlounge, Gale Gates, New York (curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito)

Big Social Game, 2nd Torino Biennial, Torino, Italy (curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto)*

Independent, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England

Self/ In Material Conscience, Fondation Sandretto, Torino (curated by Eric Magnion)

Game Show, MassMoca, Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA


2001

Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Wald/Explosionen, Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Simon Maurer)*

Brooklyn!, PBICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida

Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland*

Play is the Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

The Body of Art, Bienal de Valencia, Spain (curated by A. Bonita Oliva)*

Endtroducing, Villa Arson, Nice, France*


2000

International Videoprogam, 7th Biennal, Havana, Cuba

No Vacancies, Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin, Germany (curated by Angelika Richter)

Grauer Star, Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland* 

Domiciles, Centre d'Art Tanlay, Perrigny, France, (curated by Jaques Py)*

Katastrophen und Desaster, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (curated by Gerhard Finckh)*


1999

Video aus der Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (curated by Tobia Bezzola)

Cinema, Cinema - the Cinematic Experience, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 

Playtime, Magasin, Grenoble, France*

Ailleurs 4, Attitudes @ ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany


1998

Reservate der Sehnsucht/Zones of Desire, Unionbrauerei, Dortmund, 

Biennale de l'image: De tres courts espace de temps, Centre nationale de la photo, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France*


1997

Speed, 2nd Biennal, Kwangju, Korea* (curated by Harald Szeemann)

VideoVision 2, El Haganar, Cairo, Egypt (curated by Silvie Defraoui)

Young Art, Mamco, musée d'Art contemporain, Genf, Switzerland (curated by Lionel Bovier)

P.S.1 International Studio Show, Clocktower Gallery, New York*

Disaster and Recovery, The Swiss Institute , New York, New York


1996

Young Art, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

Bounds of Boundlessness, NGBK, Berlin, Germany*


1995

Vision-Illusion-Reality, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (curated by Harald Szeemann)

Jedes Haus ein Kunsthaus, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland (curated by Martin Heller)


1994

Prospectus, Laeken-Brussels, Belgium,(curated by Phillipe Braem)*

Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Musée d'Art et Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland*


1993

Members Only, Charles Poy Gallery, Barcelona, Spain*


1992

In the Cold, Kunsthalle Luzerne, Switzerland*(curated by Stefan Banz)


Selected Video Screenings


2008

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto (Curated by Séamus Kealy) http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/Exhibitions.html


2007 

Experimenta, London Film Festival, British Film Institute

OK. Video Militia, 3rd OK International Video Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia

Transmediale, Berlin


2006

FICCO 2006, Mexico City

Contemporary Arts Centre, Videozone, Tel Aviv

Montevideo, Amsterdam


2005

Project het Langhuis en De Stad Als Theater, Zwolle

Biennal de l’image contemporain, Centre pour l’iamge contemporain, St. Gervais, Geneva

Galeri Nasional, "OK videoFestival", Jakarta, IndonesiaTrampoline

Transmediale, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany

Transat Vidéo, FRAC Caen, France

Bartos Theatre, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, curated by John Gianvito

Volts&Visions, Zurich, Switzerland


2004 

Attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland

Impact Festival, Utrecht, Holland

Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland

Swiss Video, Museum of contemporary art, Vilnius

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Argos Festival, Brussels

Capacete, Rio de Janeiro


2003

5ème edition, Le-Maillon, Théàtre de Strasbourg, France, La Nuite Art Vidéo

The Last News, Impact Festival, Utrecht, Holland

MAD 03 Festival, Madrid


2002

ATA, Other Cinema, San Francisco, California

Bilbao Film Festival, Spain, State of the EmergencyMuseum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Cine y Casi Cine (curated by Berta Sichel)

Hardware Medien Kunstverein Dortmund, Germany, Blind Dates

Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Oberhausen Filmfestival, Germany, State of Emergency (curated by Florian Wüst)

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York

The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, New York, New York


2001

The Lux Centre, London, England, Pandaemonium, Biennial of Moving Images


2000

Forum Itinerant, Strasbourg, France

Tramvideo, Lyon, France

Popifilm, Rotterdam Vera, Groningen, Holland

De Balie, Amsterdam, Holland


1999

Documentary Film Festival, Duisburg, Germany

VIPER, International Video und Film Festival, Luzern, Switzerland

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois

New York Underground Film Festival, New York, New York

Le Club du Capitain Pip, Centre d’Art Contemporain Espace Jules Verne, Bretigny sur Orge, France

Centre d’image Contemporain St. Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland

Tramvideo, Lyon, France


1998

Kino Loge, Winterthur, Belgium*

 The Videoroom Festival, Ocularis, New York, New York

Lost & Found, De Waag, Amsterdam, Holland



Grants and Residencies

2008

Pro Helvetia residency in Cairo, Egypt


2007

Residency at CCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw


2006

Residency at Springhill Institute, Birmingham (UK)


2005/2006

Residency of the Landis&Gyr Foundation in London


2005

Grant of the Kanton Zürich


2004

Grant of the City of Zurich

Bessie Award of the New York Performance Arts Association for best set-design in 2004 (Damnation Road at The Kitchen)


2003

Grant Steo Foundation, Küssnacht


2002

Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California

Residency at Faxinal des Artes, Parana, Brazil


1999

Promotion Grant of the Graubünden Government /Förderpreis der Bündner Regierung


1996-1997

P.S.1, Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York, 

International Studio Program, Studio of Switzerland


1995

Kiefer-Hablitzel Award 


1994

Swiss National Art Award 

Kiefer-Hablitzel Award

Award of the Club 51, musée d'Art moderne, Lüttich 1990


1991

Grant of the Landis&Gyr Foundation /Landis&Gyr Stipendium


1991-2004

Div Grants of the Art Council of Graubünden

1991-2007 

Div Grants of Pro Helvetia, the Art Council of Switzerland



Education

1990-1991 Ecole Nat. Superieur des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgium

1986-1990 School of Visual Arts Luzerne, Switzerland


Selected Public Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Frac PACA, Marseille

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

Buendner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

City of Chur, Switzerland

St. Gervais, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

Musée d’Art et Histoire, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Solothurn

Communauté francaise, Brussels, Belgium


Selected Private Collections

West Collection at SEI Investments, Oaks, Pennsylvania 

Collection of Robert Chaney, Houston

Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

Collection of Baloise Insurances, Basel, Switzerland

Collection of Winterthur Insurances, Zurich, Switzerland

Collection Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland


Selected Bibliography


Monographs


"M.U.S.E.U.M.", 1994

Catalogue Kunstmuseum Luzern (with ©usa-united swiss artists)

Text by Hanspeter Wittwer


“Critical Distance - OCI and Christoph Draeger”, 1993

Catalogue ADO Gallery Antwerp and Fons Welters Gallery, Amsterdam (with OCI-Office for Cultural Intellegence)

Text by Martin Frei


“NB, New York-Berlin", 1997

Catalogue Kunsthalle St. Gallen (w/Biefer-Zgraggen)

Text by Pierre-Andre Lienhard, Hat der Weltuntergang schon stattgefunden?, 1998



“Disaster Zone”, 1999

Catalogue Orchard Gallery Derry/ Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen/ Kulturhaus Rosengarten, Grüsch

Texts by Daniel Binswanger: Zur Lokalisierung der Endzeit/ Patraig Timonee: Good Old Douglas Bader, Bad Old Andreas Baader/ Dr.Dirk Bluebaum : Die Sicherheit des Risikos/ Trans Press NY


“Toutou, Tueur né/ Apocalypso Place”, 2000 

Catalogue Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg and Centre d’art contemporain Ibos-Tarbes 

Texts by Sylvie Froux, Bernd Milla and Heike Munder/ Revolver Press, Frankfurt


“Memories of terror from a safe distance”,  2003

Catalogue Kunstmuseum Solothurn

Texts by Christoph Tannert and  Katharina Ammann/ Revolver Press, Frankfurt


Articles

Luk Lambrecht, "Solo - Etablissement d'en face, Brussels,” DeMorgen, 9/1991

Catalogue Members Only, Charles Poy Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Catalogue, Critical Distance-OCI and Christoph Draeger, text by Martin Frei, ADO Gallery Antwerp, 1993

Jean-Paul Jaquet, "voyages apocalyptiques,” Etant donné, Brussels, 5/1993

Catalogue Preisträger Bundesstipendium, Musée d'Art et Histoire, Neuchâtel

Lino Polegato, "Construire la destruction,” Flux News, Liege,9/1993

Catalogue, Prospectus, Laeken-Brussels, curated by Phillipe Braem

Catalogue Attitudes, Geneva, 1994

Margaret Jardas, "4 junge Schweizer-Filiale Basel,” Basler Zeitung, 3/95

Thomas Seelig, "Christoph Draeger,” Pakt-Zeitschrift für zeitgenösische Kunst, 1/96

Catalogue Bounds of Boundlessness, NGBK, Berlin

Paolo Bianci, "Apokalyptische Reisen,” Kunstforum 137, 6/97

Christoph Doswald, Interview, Facts 12/97

Catalogue Young Art, Mamco, musée d'Art contemporain, Geneva (curated by Lionel Bovier)

Catalogue Speed, 2nd Biennal, Kwangju, Korea* (with Martin Frei, curated by Harald Szeemann)

Catalogue Reservate der Sehnsucht/Zones of Desire, Unionbrauerei, Dortmund (curated by Hardware)

Catalogue Biennale de l'image: De tres courts espace de temps, Centre natiaonale de la photo, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Pierre-Andre Lienhard, "Hat der Weltuntergang schon stattgefunden?", catalogue NB, 12/98

Edith Arnold, "Immer modischer,” Interview, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 3/98

Maria Vogel, "Aestetisch untadelig vorgefuehrte Katastrophen,” Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 4/98

Cecile Bourne, "Feel Lucky, Punk??!,” catalogue Biennale de l'image Paris, 1998

Pascal Beausse, "Zoe Beloff/Christoph Draeger After-images,” Art Press 235, 5/98

Gerhard Mack, "Heulende Sirenen im Telekolegg,” NB-Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Tagblatt 2/98

Samuel Herzog, "Schaschlik aus Half Brain und Dirty Harry,” videoforum ART 29, Basler Zeitung 6/98

Catalogue “Make Believe”, Christoph Doswald, "Make Believe: Artistic Self-Assertion in the Age of Autopoetic Simulation,” Stalke Gallery, Kopenhagen, 1998

Gerhard Mack, "Seine Kunst ist eine einzige Katastrophe,” CASH, 8/98

Gisela Kuoni, Christoph Draeger/Martin Frei bei Luciano Fascati, Kunstbulletin 9/98

Gisela Kuoni, Leben auf dem Vulkan, Buendner Zeitung, 8/9/98

Peter Masüger, Katastrophen und Klischees, Buendner Tagblatt 30/9/98

Werkgespraech mit Dorothea Strauss, catalogue Galerie Luciano Fascati, Chur Oct 98

Gisela Kuoni, Die Katastrophe als Kunstwerk, Buendner Zeitung, 18/9/98

Gisela Kuoni, "Von Katastrophen im Prättigau,” Buendner Zeitung 10/98

Peter Masüger, ”NY-Serneus-retour,” Buendner Tagblatt 11 98

Catalogue “Cinema, Cinema”, , Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven 2/99

Catalogue Playtime, Magasin, Grenoble

Bernhard Marcelis, ”Christoph Draeger/Galerie Damasquine,” Artpress 246, 5/99

CatalogueArt At Ringier 1995-1998”, Beatrice Ruf, “Christoph Draeger,” 99

Marius Leutenegger, “Christoph Draeger: Un Ga Nai-Bad Luck,” Feature in Hangar 21, 6/99 

”Action/Time/Vision,” The Guardian, 7/99

Patraig Timonee, ”Christoph Draeger/The Orchard Gallery,” Art Monthly, 9/99

Catalogue “Disaster Zone”, monograph, Orchard Gallery Derry/ Zeppelinmuseum Friedrichshafen, Kulturhaus Rosengarten Grüsch; texts by Daniel Binswanger, “Zur Lokalisierung der Endzeit,”/ Patraig Timonee, “Good Old Douglas Bader, Bad Old Andreas Baader”/ Dr.Dirk Bluebaum, « Die Sicherheit des Risikos »

Catalogue Cinema, Cinema - the Cinematic Experience, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (curated by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap Guldemond), text Christoph Doswald, “Apocalypse, Now?”

Beat Stutzer, ”Die Aura des Todes als Bildthema,” Die Südostschweiz, 9/99

Johannes Hedinger, Horrorskop, Saiten, St. Gallen, 11/99

”Christoph Draeger, Apocalypso Place,” Contemporary Visual Arts #26, London, 12/99

Joyce Korotkin, “Christoph Draeger&Reynold Reynolds @ LiebmanMagnan Gallery,” NY Arts, New York, 1/2000

Kim Levin, “Christoph Draeger,” ShortList, Village Voice, New York 1/18/00

Phil Johnson, “Christoph Draeger & Reynold Reynolds,” Art Guide, New York Times, 1/14/00

Frank de Neeve, Zwitserse ramptoeristen in Japan, de Filmkrant, Holland, 2/00

Catalogue Katastrophen & Desaster, Folkwang Museum Essen, text Sabine Russ, “Spiel mit dem Ernst”

Catalogue Domiciles, Centre d’Art Tanlay, Perrigny,(curated  by Jaques Py)

Catalogue The Body of Art, Bienal de Valencia, Spain (curated by Archile Bonita Oliva)

Catalogue Unter Wasser, Museum Belrive, Zurich 

Jaqueline Frank, “Unglückspuzzle,” Basler Zeitung, Basel, 2/00

Catalogue Toutou, monograph, Tueur né/Natural Born Killer, Le Parvis, Centre d’Art contemporain, Ibos-Tarbes, France (curated by Sylvie Froux)/ Teenage Riot, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg 2001 (curated by Heike Munder and Bernd Milla)

Phillip Kaiser, “Going All the Way,” EIKON, Vienna, 5/00

Catalogue Endtroducing, Villa Arson, Nice, France (curated by Laurence Gateau)

Rainer Ganahl, “Apocalypso Place,” Zing Magazine, New York, 6/00

Chus Martinez,”Un Ga Nai-Bad Luck-Mal Suerte,” TRANS 7, 5/00

“Voyages Apocalyptiques,” Feature, List Magazine #1, New York, 6/00

Heather Stephens, “The Power of Nature,” Feature, www.studio-visit.com, 9/00

Barbara Basting, ”Katastrophenlust, latenter Zynismus,” Tagesanzeiger Zurich, 13/9/00

Ludmilla Vachtova, ”Optische Attacken auf die Klassiker,” Weltwoche 9/00

”Draeger et Reynolds font des rêves d’apocalypse,” La Liberté, 23/9/00

David Signer, ”Trashkunst gegen die Einsamkeit,” Magazin, 23.9.00

Nina Gülicher, "Vom Pendeln in den (Film- und Spiel-) Realitäten, blitzrevue.de, 9/00

André Iten, Fascination morbide?”, L’HEBDO, 5/10/00

Marie-Louise Nigg, “Sintflut mit Groove und Funfaktor,” Zürichsee Zeitung, 7/10/00 

Dunja Stacovitz , ”The Vanity of Bonfires,” Feature, Style Magazine, Berlin, 11-12/00

Claudius Seidl, ”Nach dem Weltuntergang,” Feature, Süddeutsche Zeitung-Magazin, 30/3./01

Christoph Doswald, “Kritische Reflexionen über Medien und Katastrophen,” Bilanz/Art Guide, 01

Catalogue Wald/Explosionen, Helmhaus Zurich (curated by Simon Maurer)

Jerry Saltz, “Screen Savers/LITE,” Village Voice, 7/01

Kim Levin, “Only the Best-Fall Arts Preview,” Village Voice, 11/01

Gary Schwan, “Museum Head: Video must go on,” Palm Beach Post, 12/9/01

Holland Cotter, “When reality overtakes art,” New York Times, 9/01

Martin Suter, “Von der Wirklichkeit überholt,” 11/01

Sarah Bayliss, “New York artists recover and regroup,” Boston Globe, 7/10/2001

Lars Movin, “Disaster World,” Information, Denmark, 23/10/01

Stefan Lüddemann, “Statt der Pfeile treffen Flugzeuge den heiligen San Sebastian,” Osnabrücker Zeitung, 26/10/01

Monica Sanchez Argiles, “Christoph Draeger. Declive y Renacimiento,” Lapiz, 178, 12/01

Catalogue Big Social Game, 2nd Torino Biennial, Torino (curated by Michelangelo Pistoletto)

Jeff Hughes, “Destroy and Reclaim,” New Art Examiner, 5/02

Catalogue Night Vision, University Art Gallery, Normal, Illinois (curated by Joy Garnett)

“Self-Portrait,” Tema Celeste, 7/02

Kathy Battista and Mark Morris, “Thinking Small,” Contemporary, 12/02

Catalogue Intimate, Paco des Artes, Sao Paolo, Brazil (curated by Daniela Bousso)

“Mouvement, ” Culture Contemporaine, 3-4/03

Catalogue Urban Diaries, Alcala 31 Contemporary Art Center, Madrid 

(curated by Sabine Saschl and Martin Schwander)*

Review, The New Yorker, 3/11/03

Blake Gopnik, “Armory Fair: Standouts In a Crowd,” Washington Post, 3/13/03

Daniel Kletke, “Kunst und Gewalt,” Kunst und Kirche, 7/03

Catalogue “Memories of terror from a safe distance”, monograph, with texts by Christoph Tannert and  Katharina Amman

Catalogue GameArt, Weltkulturerbe Stahlwerke Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany*

Roland Ducommun, “Die Faszination von Terror und Katastrophen,” Solothurner Tagblatt, 15/09/03

Eva Ruhrfeind, “Schreckensbilder-Katastrophen aus sicherer Distanz,” Aargauer Zeitung/Oltener Tagblatt/Solothurner Zeitung, 15/09/03

Konrad Tobler, “Terror-aus sicherer Distanz,” Solothurner Tagblatt, Thuner Tagblatt/Berner Zeitung/Berner Oberländer, 23/09/03

Hans Baumann, “Katastrophen zwischen Abbild und Fiktion,” Der Bund, 23/09/03

Annelise Zweks, “Verführung oder Entlarvung?” Bieler Tagblatt, 2/10/03

Claudia Spinelli, “Konsumierbare Katastrophen,” Weltwoche 41, 2003

“Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Christoph Draeger,” Basler Zeitung, 18/10/03

“Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Christoph Draeger,” Magazin, 10/03

“Aus sicherer Distanz,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1/11/03

Catalogue MAD 03, Segundo Encuentro de Arte Experimental, Madrid

Audrey Mascina, “Apocalypse Culture; Reynold Reynolds and Christoph Draeger,” Blast #9, 10/03

Catalogue Categories Post-Verité, Centro Parragà, Murcia (curated by Bert Sichel)

Kenneth Baker, “Christoph Draeger’s jigsawed photos of tragedies give viewer lots to puzzle over,” San Francisco Chronicle, 09/25/04

Catalogue Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud)*

Catalogue Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York (curated by Charlotta Kotic)

Catalogue In extremis, Abattoir, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Toulouse – Printemps de Toulouse* 

(curated by Pascal Pique and Jean Marie Bustamante)

Das Magazin, Feature “voyages apocalyptiques”, 22.1. 2005

Max Glauner, “Kartographien des Horrors-Christoph Draeger inszeniert das Unheimliche”, Zitty, Berlin, 3.2.05 

TAZ, Brigitte Werneburg, Constructio Infernalis, 26.1.2005

Mentaler Terror, Peter Herbstreuth rechnet mit dem Gröbsten, Tagesspiegel, 22.1.2005

Catalogue Die RAF Ausstellung, Kunstwerke KW, Berlin and Neue Galerie, Graz (curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Elena Blumestein)*

Catalogue Greater New York, P.S 1/MOMA, New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)

Catalogue “Reprocessing Reality”, Chateau de Nyon-P.S.1/MOMA, New York, edited by Claudia Spinelli

CatalogueSpielräume”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum

Catalogue Documentary NOW!, TENT. Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam

Catalogue After the Fact, 1st Berlin Photography Festival 2005 (curated by Jan-Erik Lundstroem)

Ken Johnson, Christoph Draeger and Gary Breslin at Roebling Hall, New York Times Art Review

Flash Art, Review Roebling Hall show, May/June 2005

Catalogue “Feinmotorik Kompendium”, Lexikon der Feinmotorick, hg von Marc Matter, Maasmedia Vol.23, 2005

Attitudes 1994-2004, Jean Paul Felley & Olivier Kaeser, Edition Fink, 2005

“Focus_Christoph Draeger”, _11E Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Centre de l’image contemporain, Geneve, JRP Ringier, 2005

Feature, Sleek magazine, Berlin, March 2006

Catalogue “Un mundo bravo et nuevo-Brave New World”, Alcala 31, edited by El Perro, 2006 

“Modellkatastrophen und das Puzzle der Rezeption”, Sebastian Baden, Die zerstörte Stadt, transcript press, 2007 

“Stranded - Skulptur im Bezugsfeld von Reise, Migration und Flucht”, Feature, Springerin 2/07

"LIVE/DEAD", feature, Nolens Volens Magazine, edited by Democracia, Madrid)

Catalogue "Fluchtwege und Sackgassen/Exits and Dead Ends", Festival der Regionen, Oberösterreich (curated by Martin Fritz)