Christian Fuchs (Lima, 1979) is a peruvian-chilean visual artiste whose work revolves around questioning familial memory.

Christian grew up in Lima, Peru, in his grandparents’ house – on his father side of the family – surrounded by portraits, objects and documents which belong to his family for generations but also narrates a journey through different territories. This atmosphere full of testimonies, stories and lifestyles from other times brought him very early to question who those people, living in each corner of his house, were et that, through the stories of his grandmother Carmen, stayed more alive than some living persons. With time, this interest became stronger and stronger and it led him to conduct deeper research, not only on the names but on the personal stories that Christian gathered with the years from his travels to his family in the south of Chile, in Peru, in Argentina, in Germany and his Spain.

Christian’s work combines a documentary investigation: readings of postcards, diaries, written information on his ancestors, of birth and death certificates, of naval registers with photographs, of paintings, drawings… and series of familial archives of nostalgic pictures from a time before ours.

For a dozen years, Christian Fuchs works has been working on his series “Transgeneration” (through generations) in which, through the study of his ancestors’ life, canalization, make-up, clothing, characterization and performance converge into several men and women of his genealogical tree.

In may 2022, Christian shwocased an individual show called “I am my family” which took place in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California at Gallery Yiwei. He participated to several art fairs across the world, as well as projects and collective shows in galleries and museums. His work, to this day, has been showcased in Peru, Chile, Germany, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, Spain and Australia.

His latest solo exhibition called « Familia » took place at Gallery Espacio Valverde in Madrid for Apertura (Madrid galleries’ weekend), he then took part in Estampia fair with the same gallery, fair in which he received the Price of the collection Studiolo. In December of that same year, Christian participated with some of his pieces from his series Transgeneration to Head on Photo festival in Sydney, Australia. As for this year 2024, he took part in Arco with the gallery Espacio Valverde, and works today towards his following solo show which is to be held at Gallery PJ in Metz, France, in July.

His work has also been subject to numerous articles releases in global press, such as BBC, Culture Trip, Lonely Plant, CGNT (China Global Television Network), Vanity Fair…