Christiane Baumgartner

Christiane Baumgartner
Christiane Baumgartner was born in 1967 in Leipzig, East Germany.
Between 1988 and 1999 she studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig
and at the Royal College of Art, London. Since 1995 she has her studio at the spinnerei Leipzig.
She currently lives and works in Leipzig and Hiddensee.

Projects and Awards
2022 Full member of Saxon Academy of Arts
2021 Juror for IPCNY, New Prints 2021/Summer: 'Lonely Hearts', New York
2018 Residency in Canada, Manif d'Art 9 and Engramme, The Quebec City Biennial
2014 Prix de Gravure Mario Avati - Académie des beaux-arts, Institut de France, Paris
2013 Residency in New York, Harlan & Weaver
2012 Residency in Vietnam, Kulturstiftung Sachsen / Goethe-Institut, Hanoi
2011 'Illumination', Commission for Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft, Zürich
2010 'Ladywood', Commission for Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Art Fund
2009 Teresa Bulgarini Preis for Contemporary Art, Salzburg
2004 Arbeitsstipendium der Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn e.V.
2002 Preis der 9. Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Leipzig
2002 Preisträger des Wettbewerbs 100 Sächsische Grafiken IV, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz
2000 Kunstpreis des Wettbewerbs der 15. Internationalen Triennale für Originalgrafik, Grenchen
1996, 1994 Walter-Tiemann-Förderpreis, Leipzig

Talks and Artists Lectures
2024 Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Holler and Hans-Christian Schink on the occasion of the exhibition 'Gegenlicht', Sächsische Akademie der Künste, Dresden
Woodcuts now and then: online-conversation with Caterina Badan, curator of the Schroder Collection, Jonathan Watkins, curator of There Goes the Sun exhibition at Strawberry Hill House & Garden, and contemporary artist Christiane Baumgartner (Cristea Roberts Gallery), LONDON ART WEEK
2023 Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Linda Schädler and Shirana Shahbazi on the occasion of the exhibition 'Von Albrecht Dürer bis Andy Warhol – Highlights aus der Graphischen Sammlung ETH Zürich', Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana Lugano
2022 Annual Henri Zerner Lecture (In-Person): Christiane Baumgartner’s Monumental Woodcuts, Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2021 Virtual Lecture | Artist Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with prints & drawings curator Dena Woodall. The Ruth K. Shartle Lecture Series, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Virtual Lecture: Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Björn Egging, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
2018 Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Christian Rümelin, August Macke Haus, Bonn
Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Karin Orchard, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
2018 Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Andreas Schalhorn, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin
Christiane Baumgartner in conversation with Jennifer Farrell, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation lecture at IFPDA Fair, New York
'Another Country', Artist Talk, Collins Cinema, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA
In conversation with Jonathan Watkins, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2017 'Seeing at a Second Glance', Artist Talk, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
'Seeing at a Second Glance', Artist Talk, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA
'Seeing at a Second Glance', Artist Talk, Print Think Conference 2017, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Artist Talk, IFPDA Fair, Alan Cristea Gallery, New York
2015 Musikalischer Kultursalon 2015, Hochschule für Musik und Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy', Leipzig
'Dalla fotografia alla xilografia', Artist Talk, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Sapienza Università di Roma
Artist Lecture, Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Artist Talk, ENSAV La Cambre, Bruxelles
Artist Talk, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
'Look Twice', Artist Talk, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
2014 In conversation with Tobias Burg and Gunda Luyken, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
'Mit Abstand betrachtet', Artist Lecture, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien
In conversation with Helen Waters, Art Cologne Art Talk, Köln
In conversation with Christian Rümelin, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Halle 14, Leipzig
2013 In conversation with Björn Egging, Lyonel Feininger Galerie, Quedlinburg
In conversation with Stefan Gronert, Art Cologne Art Talk, Köln
In conversation with Silke Wagler, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
2012 Artist Talk, New Space Arts Foundation, Hue
Artist Talk, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City
Panel Discussion, Goethe-Institut, Hanoi
'Annäherung an die Struktur', Artist Talk, Städtische Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen
2011 In conversation with Paul Coldwell, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2010 In conversation with Julien Robson, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Talk, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2007 Panel Discussion, Birmingham College of Art
In conversation with Jeannette Stoschek, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
2005 Panel Discussion, IKON Gallery, Birmingham
2004 Artist Talk, Kunstverein Bochum

Teaching
2018 Visiting Lecturer, Wellesley College, MA
2014 – 2016 Substitute Professor, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2015 Visiting Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Visiting Lecturer, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
2013 Visiting Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2012 Visiting Lecturer, Universität der Künste, Hanoi, Vietnam
Visiting Lecturer, Universität der Künste, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam
Visiting Lecturer, Kunsthochschule, Hue, Vietnam
2011 Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London
Artist Talk, Kunstpädagogisches Institut at Halle 14, Spinnerei, Leipzig
2010 Visiting Lecturer, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2009 Visiting Lecturer, New York Academy of Art, New York
2008 Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London

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