Christoph Klütsch is an art philosopher, cultural historian and educator whose life's work has been to combine critical theory, creative practice and contemplative consciousness. Over the past two decades, he has taught, researched and curated in Europe, India and the United States, bringing together modern and contemporary art, Deleuzian philosophy, media theory and global cultural traditions.
As Founder of the Provence Academy in France and former Academic Director of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Lacoste, he has taught generations of students and artists in courses such as Art and Spirituality, Visual Culture and After Postmodernism. His internationally published research - including Computer Graphic: Aesthetic Experiments Between Two Cultures (Springer) - has explored the boundary between art, technology and thought, and his leadership of award-winning European cultural projects demonstrates his ability to turn vision into reality.
In recent years, Christoph's work has focused on the Encounter of Eastern and Western forms of knowledge concentrated. In his writings - such as Reading Deleuze in India - he explores how philosophical ideas can live in practice: how music, gesture, light and stillness can embody concepts of becoming, multiplicity and immanence. Contributions inspired by his time in India reflect on the Namaste greeting as a recognition of inner light, on the raga as the temporal architecture of the soul, and on Sri Aurobindo's vision of consciousness in evolution. These reflections point to an art that is not separate from life, but part of an inner practice of transformation.
His planned art and meditation center - in the meditative landscapes of India or in the timeless countryside of Provence - will be a place where artists, philosophers and seekers can meet and explore together. It will offer residencies, workshops and silent retreats where the studio becomes a meditation space and the meditation space becomes a studio. Based on the belief that creative expression and spiritual practice are two aspects of the same movement, the center will cultivate both the critical mind and the open heart.
Christoph is fluent in German, English and French and has experience in working with other cultures, which predestines him to lead such a center. His path, which encompasses art history, media innovation, intercultural dialog and contemplative philosophy, embodies exactly the synthesis that this center will promote: a place where thinking and being, art and spirit come together.
