Tintin Patrone

Artistic Lab

Uncanny encounters of flesh and the sythetic.

Composer and multi-disciplinary artist TinTin Patrone sitting on the floor leaning against a graffiti-marked wall, looking up with a candid expression while wearing a red, green, and yellow sleeveless plaid top and blue shorts in a cluttered room.

Photo: Tim Huys

Working as TinTin Patrone, German-Filipino artist Christina Köhler draws together noise, improvisation, electronics, choreography, self-built instruments and, increasingly, robots and artificial intelligence, setting human performers against machines and other forms of agency. Since founding the Krachkisten Orchester in 2009, she has developed a practice built of the handmade and the absurd, analogue noise machines rising from dismantled toys. In 2025 she developed Heidenei, a participatory musical ritual inspired by the Swiss tradition of alpine blessing, bringing choirs, children, musicians, signs, drums and even flocks of pigeons into a roaming procession.

WELL DONE!, by Tintin Patrone
WELL DONE!, by Tintin Patrone

WELL DONE!, by Tintin Patrone

WELL DONE!, by Tintin Patrone