Christopher Gerberding is an artist and curator.

He grew up in Paris and studied at the Académie Julian before relocating to Germany, where he continued his fine arts education at the HBK Braunschweig and Villa Arson in Nice. He graduated in 2020 under Prof. Frances Scholz and is the founder and curator of the Temporary Room. Gerberding currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

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His work explores the intangible, topics as  longing, invisibility, and projections of fantasies, fears, or consolation.

Gerberding works primarily with painting. His process involves repeated layering, removal, and reworking of the surface. Forms appear, shift, or are eliminated entirely. The final image reflects traces of these decisions and the time spent with the material.

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Landscape functions as a structural starting point. It provides orientation within the picture plane without prescribing a specific narrative. Compositions remain open and deliberately ambiguous.

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Light and contrast play a key role. Depending on the viewing angle and distance, details may sharpen or recede. This encourages a slower engagement with the work and reveals information over time.

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Gerberding’s practice is grounded in observation, adjustment, and the acceptance of uncertainty within the process. Each work concludes not at a defined endpoint, but when the balance between clarity and ambiguity feels resolved.