Frédéric Keiff


Frédéric Keiff, born in 1973 in Metz, France is an architect and artist who lives and works in Strasbourg.

Biography

Frédéric Keiff is a postgraduate at the Faculty of Arts of Strasbourg in 2000, graduated in architecture at the ENSAS of Strasbourg in 2001. Since then, he devoted himself to architectural research, in-between urban self-built collective experiments, and personal plastic research. In 2001 he founded the collective 3RS Charles Altorffer in Strasbourg. He is an active member of the first hour in the EXYZT group formed in 2003 in Paris.
After graduation in 2001, he started a reflection on the human body as a unit of architecture, referring to Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci, Le Corbusier, to determine the archetype to place at the heart of contemporary architecture. But rather than marring an ideal, a perfect modular, his quest is more about the definition of a variable geometry model, incorporating therein the particulars and deformities of all. He questions the differences that make humanity what it is, i.e. a set of non-interchangeable singularities. In recent years, light has taken a special place in his artistic production with the construction of special windows, such as recovering debris of glass and assembling them on flexible silicone structures.
In 2006, he worked on Vitraux Vivo at Mozet, Belgium. In 2007, in residence in Douala, he offers the city the work Arbre à palabres. In 2011 he participated in the group exhibition A view of urbanity organized by the General Council of 67 in Strasbourg. In 2013 he did the performance the Surviving Pablo at La Semencerie in Strasbourg and, in the same year, he offered the city of Le Havre the work Arbōat, a monumental sculpture created in collaboration with Coal. Recently, he worked on The Feasting Mouth, a monumental sculpture project carried out with the Tate Modern of London, United Kingdom, as well as the collective exhibition Ateliers Nomades, Depo2015 in the Cultural Capital of 2015, Pilsen.

Artworks