CHRISTTO & ANDREW

Christto & Andrew are an artistic duo based in Doha, Qatar and Copenhagen, Denmark. Their collaboration began in 2012, working across various mediums including photography, installation and film. Their work makes use of exposing the effects of structures of history, politics, the economy, popular culture and rigid societal normalities they experience in everyday life using colour and surreal still life portraits.

  • All
  • 2022
  • Commissions
  • Encrypted Purgatory
  • Glory of the Artifice
  • Liquid Portraits

Christto & Andrew are an artistic duo based in Doha, Qatar and Copenhagen, Denmark. Their collaboration began in 2012, working across various mediums including photography, installation and film. Their work makes use of exposing the effects of structures of history, politics, the economy, popular culture and rigid societal normalities they experience in everyday life using colour and surreal still life portraits.

Christto & Andrew first gained international acclaim with their inclusion of the 2014 Foam Magazine “Talent Issue” and have since exhibited in solo exhibitions, group shows, biennial sand art fairs worldwide, including the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow(2015), Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (2016), NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (2017) and have been included in publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, Dazed magazine and the British Journal of Photography.

SOLO SHOWS

2022
Timeline on Rewind, East Wing on-line exhibition on Artsy
Solo Presentation Istanbul Photography Festival, 212 Photography Gallery, Istanbul, TK
AFTER FUTUROLOGY, House of Chappaz, Valencia, SP

2021
A Message From Venus – SCAD Art Museum, Savannah, Georgia USA

2018
Encrypted Purgatory, Metronome Gallery, Modena, Italy 
Encrypted Purgatory, Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, New Discovery Award, FR
Encrypted Purgatory, Espai Tactel Gallery, Valencia Spain (upcoming)

2017
Bout special project / Espai tactel Wall

2016
Muddy Waters ,Metronomblog, Milano IT (Photo Vogue Festival)
Glory of the Artifice / Liquid Portraits – Encontros da Imagem, Braga PT
Politics of Sport, Unseen Amsterdam NL
Parataxic Distortion, East Wing, Dubai UAE
Glory of the Artifice / Liquid Portraits, Espai Tactel Gallery, Valencia SP

2015
Liquid Portrait,s Fashion and Style Photography Multimedia Museum, Moscow. RU
Glory of the Artifice, Premiere by East Wing at Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, NL

2014
‘Liquid Portraits’, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, UAE

2012
‘Unparalleled Objectives’, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar, UAE
UPO Caribbean edition, Centro Curatorial la Quince, Puerto Rico.

GROUP SHOWS

2022
re:collections, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts, Doha, Qatar

2021
Middle Eastern Galleries Now, East Wing on Artsy, On-line exhibition
Acrylic Paradise, Metronom’s works on Paper, Metronom Bologna, Italy

2020 – 2021
Village Motel, Gallery Blanc – Montreal Canada

2020
No Place Like Home – Espai Tactel Gallery, Valencia, Spain
ARCO – Espaci Tactel Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Artefiera, Metronome Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2019
Unseen Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ARCO – Espaci Tactel Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2018
ARCO – Espai Tactel, Madrid SP

2017
Contemporary Art Qatar (works from the collection of Qatar Museums), Kraftwerk, Berlin, DE
Antologia – Metronom, Modena IT
Bling Bling Baby! Museum Hilversum, NL

2016
Bling Bling Baby!, NRW – Forum , Dusseldorf, DE
Paraisos terrenales LA NAVE, Valencia , SP

2015
Glory of the Artifice, East Wing, Paris Photo, France

2014
Night Light, Cuadro Gallery Dubai, UAE
Foam Talents 2014 East Wing Gallery, Dubai.UAE
Foam Talents 2014, UNSEEN Photo Fair, Amsterdam. NL
Foam Talents 2014, L’Atelier Ne?erlandais, Paris, FR
UCL HBKU Gallery,Doha, UAE
CSA2: At the collector, Katara Art Center, Qatar, UAE

2013
Collective, Qatar Visual Art Center, Qatar, UAR
Emerge Art Fair, Washington DC, USA.
CSA: At the collector, Katara Art Center, Qatar, UAE
CSA: Program exhibition, Katara Art Center, Qatar, UAE

2012
Taseem Doha Art and Design VCU, Qatar,UAE
Malasartes Centro Cultural de Espan?a, San Salvador, El Salvador

2011
Vividos, Museo de Caguas Puerto Rico

2010
5to Aniversario de Area Lugar de Proyectos, Puerto Rico.
Mix/ Combinacio?, Untitled Gallery, Barcelona Spain

2009
Al limite de la sobre exposicio?n, Barcelona, Spain.
Biennials

2014
Colombo Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka