Christoph Oeschger is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and publisher based in Zurich. His work spans various forms of documentary expression. He studied Media Art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and Photography at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 2014, he co-founded the publishing project cpress with Christof Nüssli, focusing on artist books. In 2020, they expanded the project by founding cpress films to produce artist films.
Oeschger's work has been exhibited at numerous museums and film festivals, including Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Centre de la Photographie Genève, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Solothurner Filmtage.
FILM FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS
2025 Videoex, Experimental Video and Film Festival (CH)
2025 Solothurner Filmtage (CH)
2024 Revolutions per Minute Festival (USA)
2024 Videoex, Experimental Video and Film Festival (CH)
2024 Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA)
2024 Solothurner Filmtage (CH)
2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival (USA)
2022 Solothurner Filmtage (CH)
2021 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE)
2020 Kurfilmtage Winterthur (CH)
2020 Kasseler Dokfest (DE)
SOLOEXHIBITION
2019 Filme des Windes, (with Florian Dombois) Kunstraum of the Leuphana University of Luneburg (DE)
2018 They‘ve Made Us Ghosts, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen (DE)
2014 MKR_04, Scriptings, Berlin (DE)
2014 MKR_03, Corner College, Zurich (CH)
GROUPEXHIBITION
2024 Fadenspiele / String Figures - Eine forschende Ausstellung, Museum Tinguely,
2024 Polwärts - tiefe Einsicht im hohen Norden Kornhausforum Bern (CH)
2022 Kunst für diese Stadt - Kunstankäufe der Stadt Zürich 2018–2021, Helmhaus
2022 Bejing Biennale, Bejing (CN)
2022 Quanga, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne (CH)
2021 «Zirkulation!»: Migrierendes Wissen, Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)
2021 Between the Mountains, Hills, and Lakes, Gaotai Gallery, Urumqi (CN)
2020 Between the Mountains, Hills, and Lakes, Design Society, Shenzen (CN)
2020 Between the Mountains, Hills, and Lakes, MAB, Shanghai (CN)
2020 Between the Mountains, Hills, and Lakes, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing (CN)
2018 SITUATION #118: A Selection of Photobooks on Infrastructure, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH)
2018 Surveillance Index, LeBal, Paris (FR)
2017 #PlaT(T)FORM 2017, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH) ,
2016 f/Stop, Festival for Photography, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
2016 Curated Tables by P.Puklus, C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2016 Caméra (Auto )Contrôl, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva (CH)
2016 Annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair at BAXTER ST by Anouk Kruithof, New York (US)
2016 Édition(s) Expérimentale(s), UQO Gallery, Gatineau, Quebec (CA)
2016 Édition(s)Expérimentale(s), Toronto Art Book Fair (CA)
2016 Riga Photomonth, Self publish Riga exhibition, Riga (LVA)
2015 Werk und Atelierstipendien, Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)
2015 txt.img, Schau!Fenster, Zurich (CH)
2014 global aCtIVISm, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe (DE)
2014 Haus im Aus, Labitzke, Zurich (CH)
2013 Supervision, Remise, Zurich (CH)
2013 Mit Mokka nach Mekka, for Bruce, Kunstverein, Amsterdam (NL)
2013 CROSS OVER, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
2013 MASCHINENSEHEN, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM),Karlsruhe (DE)
2012 Tanz mit Bruce 4, Neuer Shed, Frauenfeld (CH)
2011 Lost in Translation Stadtgalerie Markdorf, Markdorf (DE)
2011 Gate 11 Fondazione Fotografia, Modena (IT)
2011 Diploma Exhibition ZHdK, Zurich (CH)
2009 Exhibition of the year ZHdK, Zurich (CH)
FILMOGRAPHY
2024 ANTIBODY! with Christof Nüssli, cpress films
2022 Nichts geht spurlos am Eis vorbei, with Gianna Molinari, cpress films
2020 2°, cpress films
2019 Unlearning Flow, with Mario Schulze and Sarine Waltenspül
AWARDS
2024 Pro Helvetia Focus Photo Stipendium
2024 Gil Omenn Art & Science Award 2024, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2024 Special Mention am Videoex, Internationales Experimentalfilm & Video Festival
2024 Best short documentary, Arctic Film Festival
2021 Arbeitsstipendium Covid-19 der Stadt Zürich
2020 PolARTS Stipendium, Pro Helvetia und Swiss Polar
Institut, with Gianna Molinari
2019 Hans und Lea Grundig-Preis / Kunstpreis der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
2018 Fachstelle Kultur des Kantons Zürich, Atelieraufenthalt
an der Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2017 Pro Helvetia South Africa, Residency Johannesburg
2016 Pro Helvetia Nachwuchsförderung Fotografie
2015 Nomination Werk- und Ateliersipendium der Stadt Zürich
2015 The most beautiful books of the world 2014; Bronze
2014 Nomination für den Aperture First Photo Book Award
2014 Preis der Fördergesellschaft HfG-Karlsruhe / Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM)
2014 Die schönsten Bücher Deutschlands, Stiftung Buchkunst
2012 Tanz mit Bruce 4, Atelierstipendium in der Neuen Shed, Frauenfeld
COLLECTIONS
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich
Private Sammlungen
PUBLICATIONS
More than Meets the Eye - Invisible Flows and Processes, Christoph Oeschger, Uniarts Helsinki, Helsinki, 2024
Mannoni, Laurent, and Georges Didi-Huberman, Movements of Air: The photographs from Étienne-Jules Marey’s wind tunnels, ed. Florian Dombois and Christoph Oeschger, diaphanes, Zurich, 2023
Windtunnel Bulletin, no. 12 Zurich, 2020
Windtunnel Bulletin, no.11, Zurich, 2020
CoCurate Magazine, by Isabelle Evertse and Federica Chiocchetti, 2019
They‘ve Made Us Ghosts, cpress, Zurich, 2017
Werkermagazin 2, a spoken history the young worker, Amsterdam, 2016
global aCtIVISm, Art and Conflict in the 21st Century, MIT Press, Boston, 2015
Art and Justice N.4, le nouvel espirit de vandalisme, Paris, 2015
Miklós Klaus Rózsa; Christof Nüssli, Christoph Oeschger, cpress/Spector Books, Zurich/Leipzig, 2014
CROSS OVER – Fotografie der Wissenschaft, Wissenschaft der Fotografie, Spector Books, Leipzig, 2013
Abitare Magazin, Art Folder ISSUE: 532, RCS MediaGroup, Milano, 2013
MASCHINENSEHEN, Spector Books, Leipzig, 2013
[SIC] Literaturmagazin Nr.5, [SIC] – Literaturverlag, Aachen/Berlin 2013
Generation Nayda, Self Published, Zurich, 2012
NORIENT, Network for Global Sounds and Media Culture, www.norient.com/de/video/generation_nayda, April, 2012
Opace Presence, Manual of Latent Invisibilities, Hg.Knwbotic Research, Diaphanes, Zurich 2010
Pragmatic Solutions for Utopia, Self Published, Zurich, 2010
Rumors, Teheran 14.–24. Juni 2009, Self Published, Zurich, 2009
Artificial Intelligence, Self Published, Zurich, 2009
Ausserirdische sind auch nur Menschen, Self Published, Zurich, 2009
PERFORMANCES
2010 OLAF – Organisation zur Lösung der Ausländerfrage, in collaboration with Andreas Heusser and Christof Nüssli