The work of Christiane Baumgartner

Christiane Baumgartner: A ground-breaking artist who has achieved international critical acclaim for her printmaking

Making a Mark Podcast produced by Cristea Roberts Gallery, explores the work of Christiane Baumgartner (b. 1967), a ground-breaking artist who has achieved international critical acclaim for her printmaking, choosing to adopt the earliest form of the medium, the woodcut, as her primary means of expression.

Curator and director at Cristea Roberts Gallery, Helen Waters, talks to Baumgartner about her formative years spent living in East Germany under communism and how this informed and shaped her work, as well as her choice of medium and subject matter, from her earliest woodcuts, many of which are now housed in major museum collections, through to her latest editions, which are the subject of a new exhibition at Cristea Roberts Gallery.

We also hear from Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, who gave Baumgartner her first solo show in the UK and commissioned her to make Stairway to Heaven, 2019, her largest work to date, Christian Rümelin, an early supporter of Baumgartner’s work and Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva, and Gillian Forrester, independent curator and scholar, who has written about Baumgartner’s work. She is the former Curator of Prints & Drawings at Yale Center for British Art in the US.

Explore Christiane Baumgartner. There Goes the Sun, 15 October 2023 – 10 April 2024 at Strawberry Hill House. Tickets included in general admission.

Top image: Christiane Baumgartner in her studio, Leipzig, 2021. Courtesy artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London. Photo Werner Lieberknecht.