Christoph Chwatal is an art historian and critic based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Currently, he is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. From June to August 2024, Christoph is a Juliane and Franz Roh Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.

He completed his Ph.D. dissertation on “Contemporary Art’s Strategic-Organizational Complex” through a joint doctoral program in Cologne and Amsterdam. Previously, Christoph was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded Fellow at the Graduate School for the Humanities of the University of Cologne, an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Art History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, holder of a scholarship by the Stiftung Mercator, and a Lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Christoph’s academic writings have been featured in various journals, including Stedelijk Studies, kritische berichte, and Third Text. As an art critic, he regularly contributes to publications such as Art Papers, springerin, and Texte zur Kunst.