Christopher Bauder

Christopher Bauder (born 1973 in Stuttgart) is a German interaction designer and media artist who lives and works in Berlin. His projects focus on the translation of bits and bytes into objects and environments and vice versa. Space, object, sound, light, and interaction are the key elements of his work.

Biography[edit]

Christopher Bauder started creating large-scale spatial art installations and lighting design after finishing his studies in the Digital Media Class at the Berlin University of the Arts. His projects focus on the translation of bits and bytes into objects and environments and vice versa. Space, object, sound, light, and interaction are the key elements of his work. In 2004 he founded the multidisciplinary art and design studio WHITEvoid as a necessity to realize his large scale art and design pieces and environments. The studio is composed of specialists in interaction design, media design, product design, interior architecture, and electronic engineering.

He is best known for his city-wide light art installation Lichtgrenze, created in 2014 together with his brother Marc, for the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Work[edit]

Christopher Bauder has brought his installations and performances to events and spaces around the world, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, Museum of Design in Zurich, CTM & Transmediale in Berlin, MUTEK in Montreal and Mexico City, The Festival of Lights in Lyon and other countless festivals.

His projects have received worldwide recognition and have won several awards including the German Lighting Design Award, the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Cannes Lions, the Red Dot Design Award and the iF Communication Design Award.

Artworks[edit]

VEKTOR (2024)
SKALAR (2018)
Stalactite (2018)
Deep Web(2016)
Circular
Lichtgrenze (2014)
Grid (2013)
Fluidic (2013)
Atom (2007)

Selected exhibitions and shows[edit]

2020/2021

Dark Matter Solo Exhibition, Berlin, Germany

2018

CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany
Bright Brussels Festival, Brussels, Belgium

2017

LOST Artfestival / The Dark Rooms, Berlin, Germany
LUZA Algarve International Festival of Light, Loule, Portugal

2016

CTM Festival, Berlin, Germany
Festival of Lights, Lyon, France
Luminale – Light Festival, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fuorisalone – Milan Design Week, Italy

2015

Lumières – The Play of brilliants (Éléphant Paname), Paris, France

2014

Lichtgrenze, City of Berlin, Germany
Effektorium – Mendelssohn Museum, Leipzig, Germany

2013

Festival of Lights, Lyon, France
Arma17, Moscow, Russia

2012

UnSound Festival, Krakow, Poland
Cultures Electroni[k], Rennes, France
Science Center Daegu, South Korea

2011

MUTEK Festival, Mexico City
Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato Mexico
EKKO Festival, Bergen Norway
Interaction I/O/I Show, Design Museum, Barcelona Spain
Soundframe Festival, Vienna Austria

2009

FREEZE! Art Show, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
TRAMA Festival, Porto, Portugal
Berghain / Elektroakkustischer Salon, Berlin
MUTEK Festival, Montreal, Canada
STRP Festival, Eindhoven Netherlands

2008

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
SMUK Festival, Skanderborg, Denmark
Media Facades Festival, Berlin

2007

TESLA Art Space, Berlin
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland

2006

LUMINALE Light Art Festival, Frankfurt
SIGGRAPH Art Show, Boston, USA

2005

Transmediale Festival, Berlin
NEXT Art and Technology, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004

Museum of Technology, Vienna, Austria

2003

Artespace, German Museum, Munich

2002

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Museum of Telecommunication, Berlin, DE

Selected awards[edit]