Kristina Buch

Kristina Buch (born 1983) is a German artist and academic. Her work includes installation, sculpture, video, public art, drawing and works with text and sound. Before training as an artist, she studied biology and theology. Some of her projects involve living organisms, municipal procedures or the public. She took part in Documenta 13 in 2012 and in the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015. Since 2022 she has taught sculpture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, where she was appointed professor of sculpture in 2023.

Her contribution to Documenta 13, The Lover, was a garden of local plants and butterflies tended over the hundred days of the exhibition. For Some at times cast light. (2014–15) Buch got the city of Bochum to name a square after a fictitious woman the artist invented. Since 2019 she has worked with the electronic composer Robert Logan on spoken-word and sound pieces. She received the Young European Artist Award of Trieste Contemporanea in 2012 and the Großer Hans-Purrmann-Preis der Stadt Speyer in 2019. A monograph on her work, Between Horizons, edited by Chus Martínez, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2026.