Born in 1967 in Leipzig, Germany, Christiane Baumgartner is a contemporary artist celebrated for her monumental prints that intertwine the analogue traditions of printmaking with the temporal lnaguage of video imagery.
Baumgartner studied graphic and book arts at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig from 1988 to 1994, laying the technical foundations of her craft. She advanced her studies with a Master's in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London, completed in 1999.
Baumgartner uses still frames from her own video and film footage as source material, transforming digital imagery into analog engravings. Her work often explores themes of speed and stasis, movement and stillness, creating flickering visual effects through meticulously carved linear grids-a visual tribute to the shimmering flicker of video screens.
Baumgartner gained international attention when she featured at the EAST International exhibition in Norwich (2004), followed by a major solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005), and inclusion in Eye on Europe at MoMA, New York (2006).
Her retrospective White Noise toured through prestigious venues including the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière; and Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (2015-16).
Her work has earned significant recognition, including the Mario Avati Printmaking Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2014) and the Teresa-Bulgarini Prize (2009). In 2012, she became the first recipient of the Vietnam residency fellowship from the Saxon Cultural Foundation and Goethe-Institut.
From 2014 to 2016, Baumgartner served as a Visiting Professor overseeing artistic print studios at HGB Leipzig, and she has also lectured internationally-including in the U.S., U.K., and Vietnam.
Her works are housed in over fifty public collections worldwide, such as the Albertina (Vienna), Städel Museum (Frankfurt), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Kunsthaus Zürich, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, MoMA (New York), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).