Christoph Weber
Les Moulins de Paillard, Loir en Vallée, France
April – August 2025
Housed in an 18th century former paper mill beside the River Loire, Les Moulins de Paillard is a publicly funded cultural organization whose purpose is the production and exhibition of contemporary artwork. Its residency programme allows artists to study and create work in the building's former industrial halls. The exhibition Vulnerable Bodies will present existing works by Christoph Weber alongside new site-specific sculptures created by the artist during his residency at the former mill. Many of them incorporate a local limestone called ‘tuffeau’, with which the Moulins themselves were constructed. Connecting the vulnerability of the human body and the environment, the exhibition will show that ecological and social crises are inseparable.
Christoph Weber (born 1974 in Vienna, Austria) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2002, he was a guest student of Georg Herold at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He has received numerous scholarships, including Artist in Residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York (2010 and 2003), and Artist in Residence at the Cité des Arts in Paris (2008). His work reflects on human intersections with their natural environment, exploring themes of ecology, over-consumption and their related societal issues. His medium of choice is concrete, which he uses to address the tensions of the earth and the communities it houses. He exhibited his works, among others, at Wien Museum MUSA; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris Romainville; Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna; Musèe du Louvre, Paris; Artspace Wien, Vienna; Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles and ProjecteSD, Barcelona.
This is the artist’s first collaboration with Phileas.
