Christoph Girardet
Christoph 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. Christoph 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. 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).
"Meteor" (2011) / "Maybe Siam" (2009) / "Contre-jour" (2009) / "Hide" (2006) / "Kristall" (2006) / "Mirror" (2003) / "Play" (2003) / "Beacon" (2002) / "Manual" (2002) / "Phoenix Tapes" (1999)
Matthias Müller
Matthias is an artist working in film, video and photography. As a curator, Matthias has organised numerous avant-garde film events, such as the 'Found Footage Film Festival' (1996 and 1999), the first German festival of autobiographical films, "Ich etc." (1998). For more than fifteen years he has taken part with his films and videos in major film festivals worldwide. His work has also been featured in several group and solo exhibitions, for example at the documenta X, the Manifesta 3, in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. In 1994, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, dedicated a retrospective to him. His films and videos are part of the collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, the Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, the Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Goetz Collection, Munich, and Tate Modern, London. His works can be read as an unwritten history of experimental cinema in Germany. Furthermore, in recent years, he has made a name for himself in the art world as well with his video installations and photography.
"Meteor" (2011) / "Maybe Siam" (2009) / "Contre-jour" (2009) / "Hide" (2006) / "Kristall" (2006) / "Mirror" (2003) / "Play" (2003) / "Beacon" (2002) / "Manual" (2002) / "Phoenix Tapes" (1999)
