Christiane Feser

Christiane Feser (1977, Germany) is an artist based in Frankfurt am Main who works in the field of expanded photography. Her practice explores the difference between complex human perception and the image production of technical apparatuses. Photography serves her both as theme and material: through manual, process-based interventions such as folding, layering, and shifting, she tests how image space and real space overlap and how these tensions shape perception. Her works often oscillate between two- and three-dimensionality, creating states of instability that challenge conventional ways of seeing.

During her time at MORPHO, Christiane will extend her investigation of the negative color space. This approach allows her to bring painting, photography, and objecthood into dialogue, not directly but through the detour of inversion. Building on earlier black-and-white experiments, she now explores how painterly gestures and photographic processes intersect in ways that generate spatial presence and object-like form. Inversion here becomes a method for opening images to states of ambiguity and transformation, and for questioning how perception itself is shaped when material surface and technical apparatus converge.

Christiane’s work is represented in major public collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brown University, Rhode Island; Minneapolis Institute of Art; DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt; Kunstmuseum Bochum; Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe. She has received awards and residencies such as Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022), Budapest Art Factory (2019), the 1822 Art Award (2016), and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2014).