Christoph Girardet

Christoph Girardet was born in Langenhagen in 1966.

 

He studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art (Master’s degree in 1994).

 

Since 1989, he has produced video tapes and video installations, since 1994 some of them in collaboration with video artist Volker Schreiner and since 1999 regularly in collaboration with filmmaker Matthias Müller.

 

Girardet has participated in group shows at major institutions such as Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center.

 

 

Solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at institutions such as Walker Art Center, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Bremen, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Palais des Beaux-Arts Bruxelles, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Sean Kelly Gallery New York, and Kunsthalle Bielefeld statt. His work is part of various public and private collections.

 

He was awarded various grants and stipends, such as the stipend for the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (2000) and the Villa Massimo stipend in Rome (2004).

 

He lives and works in Hannover.

 

Selected Awards and Honours

 

2006 Grand Prix Canal+ du meilleur court métrage, Semaine de la Critique, Cannes

2004 11. Marler Videokunstpreis, Skulpturenmuseum Marl

2003 Preis für den besten deutschen Beitrag, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

2002 Preis für den besten deutschen Beitrag, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

2000 Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik für den besten Experimentalfilm

The Award for the Best International Film and Video, Images Festival Toronto

1997 Niedersächsisches Künstler-Jahresstipendium

1995 Preis des Kunstvereins Hannover

"Schlaglicht"- Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

1994 Hofbrauhaus Wolters Kunstpreis, Braunschweig

1992 Nachwuchspreis der Stadt Braunschweig

 

 

in distribution

 

Contre-jour, 2008 (together with Matthias Müller)

Pianoforte, 2007

Kristall, 2006 (together with Matthias Müller)

Nero, 2006

Portrait, 2004

Mirror, 2003 (together with Matthias Müller)

Play, 2003 (together with Matthias Müller)

Beacon, 2002 (together with Matthias Müller)

Manual, 2002 (together with Matthias Müller)

Absence, 2002

60 Seconds (Analog), 2002

Scratch, 2001

Enlighten, 2000

Phoenix Tapes, 1999 (together with Matthias Müller)

Release, 1996

Fieberrot, 1993

Random Cuts, 1993

Schwertkampf, 1991