- Absence, 2002
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
