Christian Moeller

At age nineteen, he took a job opportunity in West Africa working for a railway construction project producing topographic and geological maps in Booué, a small village on the banks of the Ogooué river in central Gabon.

Following his return to Germany in 1981, Moeller studied architecture at the College of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and under Gustav Peichl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

While working at the architecture firm Günther Behnisch in Stuttgart, he began his transition into the arts, joining the Institute for New Media in the Städelschule, Frankfurt under Peter Weibel in 1990.

A pioneer in this field, he created novel works like the media facade “Kinetic Light Sculpture” in 1992 in collaboration with the architect Rüdiger Kramm and the interactive dance piece “Electro Clips” with Stephen Galloway, the principal dancer at William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt at the time.

Currently, he is professor in the UCLA department of Design Media Arts and operates his studio in the Elysian Valley (Frogtown) neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.