hristoph Draeger works with scenes of catastrophe and disaster to both plumb the banal and the genuinely affecting from mediatized images from which most people are increasingly abstracted. Born in Switzerland, Christoph studied art at the Ecole Nat. Superieur des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels and the School of Visual Arts Luzern. He lives and works in New York City. Christoph Draeger has recently exhibited his work in “Greater New York” at P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Kunstwerke KW Berlin, Kunsthaus Graz and the New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art. He has had solo exhibitions at, among other venues, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Musee d’Art Contemporaine, Toulouse and the Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Freiburg.