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* Winterthur/Switzerland, lives and works in Basel/Switzerland.
Studies: ZHdK Zürich, graphic design; Swiss Television Zürich, stage design; FHNW Basel, audiovisual design.
From 1995: videowork, video installations, documentary videos, video for dance and theater.
Exhibitons, festival screenings.
Works 1995-97 on cruise-ships around the world, lives 1998-2000 in Montréal/Canada and 2002-07 in Paris, 2007-17 in Brussels.
2000-02 lecturer for video Fachhochschule Vorarlberg/Austria.
From 2004: guest lecturer HSLU Lucerne/Switzerland.
videography
2026 The sky, an endless abyss
2025 Aufzeichnung (Recording)
2022 Superposition
2020 Sensing Bodies
2020 cité modèle
2017 Gare du Nord
2015 Ethiopian Run
2014 Timeline
2014 Tension Box
2013 Campus
2012 Monsieur René
2011 Karta; Come on into the continents II
2010 The ground is moving
2009 Sinbad – new voyages; Come on into the continents I
2008 Tiger
2007 Taxila
2006 Cairo
2005 Still seeing disappeared the sailors; Songs N°1 & N°2
2004 Come, heavy sleep
2003 Plan fixe
2002 19x barefoot; 5 spots Expo ‘02
2001 Housekeeping
2000 Yellowknife
1999 Felix in black&white
1997 No sunday no monday
grants/awards/residencies
2020 Basel Media Art Prize 2020 for ‚Sensing Bodies‘
2015 recognition grant UBS Kulturstiftung
2013 award: ‘ZOOM’ Basler Filmpreis, best art film
2010 first prize SCOPE Subject/Art Basel 2010, videoart
2008 1er prix Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand/France
2006 artist in residence / Pro Helvetia, Cairo/Egypt
2003 1er prix Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand/France
2003 grant canton of Basel
2003 V.I.D. award Berne
2002 artist in residence / IAAB, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris/France
2000 grant canton of Basel
1997 award Film- und Videotage Basel
1998 artist in residence / IAAB, Montréal/Canada
exhibitions
2023 VideoWindow zu Gast im Zimmermannhaus Brugg: ‘Christoph Oertli, Superposition‘;
VideoWindow, ‘Thrill me, The Power and Magic of Music in Video Art‘, Kunsthalle / Stattkino Luzern, Walcheturm Zürich, Stadtkino Basel.
2021 VideoWindow / Stattkino Luzern; Videocity / Messe Basel; ‘Utopia’, Boomerang, Lyon.
2020 Kunsthaus Baselland: ‘Christoph Oertli, Sensing Bodies‘, Einzelausstellung.
2019 ‘videocity Basel – Kaliningrad‘, kuratiert von Andrea Domesle, Ausstellungszentrum ‘Rosizo‘, Kaliningrad.
2017 ‘voyage, voyage’, Kunstmuseum Olten; ‘hier – dort’, Benzeholz, Meggen/Lucerne; Rewind 1997, Kunstraum Riehen/Basel.
2016 Ernte 2015, Kunsthaus Baselland; FID Festival International de Cinéma Marseille.
2015 ‘Wohin gehen wir?’ Videokunst zur Stadtgesellschaft, Motorenhalle Dresden; Proyector-Festival, Signos y Significados, Quinta del Sordo, Madrid; VideoWindow, Galerie Bob Gysin, Zürich.
2014 Ernte 2013, Kunsthaus Baselland; ‘RoundAbout’, Kunstraum akku, Emmen/Luzern; ‘Regionale 15’, Aubette, Strasbourg.
2013 Swiss Art Awards, Basel fair; Video City, Louis Vuitton store, Basel; Making Visible! Kunsthaus Baselland (CH).
2012 ‘durchblicken und abprallen – künstl. Statements zu semitransp. Konstruktionen’, K3 Zurich; ‘Phänomen Wohlstand’, Motorenhalle Dresden; ‘Hidden Publics’, Galerie Emila Filly, Ùsti nad Labem, Czech Republic; Colliding Worlds – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna.
2011 solo show Kunstkredit Basel, Oslo10, Basel; Accélerateur de particules, Strasbourg.
2010 ‘Ground is moving’, solo show at Cinémathèque Québécoise Montréal; ‘Transient Spaces – the tourist syndrome’, NGBK Berlin; ‘Where do you want to go?’, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich.
2009 ‘Im Schatten der Pyramiden’, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf.
2008 solo show Kunsthalle Winterthur, ‘Ernte 2007’, Palazzo Liestal/Basel; Cairoscape, Berlin; Galerie Les Territoires, Montréal; Galerie Leclectic, Nouméa/Nouvelle Calédonie; ‘Regionale9’, Kunsthalle, Basel.
2007 Galerie Leclectic, Nouméa/Nouvelle Calédonie; ‘Regionale8’, Plug-in, Basel.
2006 Kunsthalle Winterthur, ‘W’thur sucht den Superstar’; ‘Regionale7’, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel; Galerie ArtCore, Slick Art Fair/FIAC Paris/France.
2005 ‘Swiss video landscapes today, looped sensations’, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Yokohama/Japan; ‘Regionale6’, Plug-in, Basel.
2004 solo show Galleria Laurin, Zurich; ‘Swiss Art Miami’, Miami Beach/USA; Friedrichsbau Bühl/Germany; Filiale Basel.
2003 Galerie artcore Paris, ‘Regionale4’, Basel/Mulhouse.
2002 Nuit Art Vidéo, Théâtre Le Maillon, Strasbourg/France.
2001 ‘Regionale2’, Plug-in, Basel/E-werk, Kunstverein Freiburg Brsg; ‘Helle Nächte‘, Kunstverein Baselland.
2000 Kunstkredit Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland.
1999 Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK, Berlin; Casa Obscura, Montréal/Canada.
1998 Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel; Kunstkeller Bern; CMS/IAAB Basel.
1997 Kunsthaus Glarus; ‘Paradice now’, Zurich.
festivals/screenings
Viper, Basel; VideoEx, Zürich ; Plug in, New Media Forum Basel; Swiss Television; Kunsthaus Glarus/CH; Ciné-Club Xenix, Zürich; Transmediale 2000, Berlin; Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK, Berlin; Kunstverein Freiburg/Brsg, E-Werk; Kommunales Kino, Freiburg/Brsg; Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand; Rencontres Int. Paris/Berlin/Madrid; Invideo Milan; 2nd Intern.Video Art Festival Prishtina/Kosovo; April meetings, Belgrad; Pandaemonium, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London; OutFest, Los Angeles; The Int’l Fest of Cinema and Technology, Los Angeles; Inside Out, Toronto; Pleasure Dome, Toronto; MIX – The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival; Swiss Institute New York, NYC; Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois, Montréal; ‘Image et nation’, Montréal; The Vancouver Videopoem Festival; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge/Canada; Emmedia Calgary/Canada; Microwave, Hongkong; Image Forum, Tokyo; FIV, Buenos Aires.