CHRISTOPHER LOY BIO & CV
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Christopher Loy is a Berlin-based international artist, performer and composer working across performance, installation and time-based media. His practice explores the relationship between body, sound, architecture and technological mediation through spatial compositions, audiovisual environments and performative systems. Combining cello, voice, movement, video and electronic sound, his works often investigate the body as both a sonic and visual interface. Central to his practice is an interest in how movement structures perception — spatially, acoustically and socially.
His projects range from durational performances and multichannel installations to score-based works and audiovisual compositions. Rather than separating musical performance, visual art and installation, his works operate between these formats, creating immersive situations in which sound, image and physical presence continuously influence one another.
Recent projects include Performative Symposium (LI Hamburg, 2025), which was an 8-hour durational performance and interactive installation, translating architectural, historical and social space into a performative structure. The work was commissioned by LI Hamburg for it’s 100th anniversary. He has presented works in institutional, musical and interdisciplinary contexts in Germany and abroad.
ARTIST CV
2026
2026
2025
2025
2025
2024
2024
2024
Tense, solo performance, ACUD macht neu Galerie, Berlin, DE
Inside-Out, solo performance, MEGA STILE, Bam Works, Berlin, DE
LI 100, durational performance (Performative Symposium), installation, workshops for the 100th anniversary of the
Hamburg State Teachers Institute, DE
Heterotopische Gesänge, group exhibition, Kunstverein Gera, DE
Performer at Maerz Musik Finale I am all ears, curated by Wojtek Blecharz & Kamila Metwaly, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, DE
Canti Di Casa D., performance and soundtrack contribution for a multimedia work by Ute Janssen, presented at
Italy is more surrealist then the pope by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, IT
Pinkie, solo performance and video installation, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Performer at Kunsthalle for music Act II by Ari Benjamin Meyers, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024-2025
2023
2023
Studio Grant, Kulturräume Berlin, DE
Artist Residency artistically directed by Actress (Darren J Cunningham), CAMP, FR
Music Ambassador Scholarship, Berlin Music Commission, DE
EDUCATION
2019-2023
2016
2012- 2018
Artistic-pedagogical Music Studies, main subject: Cello, UdK Berlin, DE
Erasmus exchange program, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Time-Based Media, Class of Prof. Matt Mullican, HfbK Hamburg, DE