Christiane Wittig
Christiane Wittig born in Germany, graduated as a Media Artist from the Bauhaus- University Weimar in 2003.
She continued developing her artworks in Sydney, Australia.
Postgraduate Master in Art Design and Media, Brussels, she obtained in 2006 the scholarship of the Else-Heiliger Fond (EHF) at the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Wittig’s projects include interactive media installations as well as film and photography. Her interactive compositions bring the spectator into the fragile cycle of emergence and misdemeanours.
She is primarily concerned with poetry of live, in the vehicle of mechanical construction. Her work has been exhibited in Belgium and Germany, as well as in private and corporate collections.
Development background
Throughout my work I integrate digital media into objects both created and found. This process of integration fuses the object with a metaphorical meaning manifest in myriad aspects of the artwork. I seek to create meaning, to provoke, to evoke feeling and emotion in the participant by establishing a dialogue which operates in terms of both the object and the (object in the) space. Precisely this type of process is at work in some of my earlier exhibitions in which themes of fragility and ephemerality were explored in the interaction between object, space and participant. The fusion of various types of media with plexiglass (perspex), a material common to all my work, enables me to examine the larger dynamic at play in notions of fragility and ephemerality. The use of a transparent, malleable, lightweight, (fragile?) material in what are often large, dominant spaces demands consideration and interaction in a way that is not reductionist or passive – as in so many works of media art.
*1978 born in Zwickau, GDR
lives and works in Brussels, Belgium and Chemnitz, Germany
Professional:
Since 2010 freelancer lecturer in Transmedia, Master of Art Design and Media at Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, BE
2007-2009 Artist and lecturer in Transmedia, Master of Art Design and Media at Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels, BE
2007 lecturer, Bauhaus- University Weimar, GE
2006 visiting Artist, Transmedia Postgraduate Program in Arts, Design and Media, Brussels, BE
2003 Gallery assistant, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Education:
2006 Transmedia, Postgraduate Program in Arts+Design+Media, Hogeschool 'Sint-Lukas' Brussels, BE
2003 Media art, Bauhaus-University Weimar, GE
2000 foreign exchange scholarship College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
Prizes / scholarships:
2006 Scholarship/ Else-Heilger Fond/ EHF/ Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Berlin, GE
2004 International Marianne-Brandt-Contest, The Poetry of the Functional, Chemnitz, GE
Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Gallery KUB, “warming up” Leipzig, GE
2008 Gallery Eigenheim, Weimar, GE
2005 Gallery fastforward, “schnee ist weiss”, Antwerp, BE
2004 Gallery Konvex, Art Festival Chemnitzer Begegnungen “Transit”, Chemnitz, GE
2002 Gallery Andrè Kermer, “Glück”, Leipzig, GE
Group Exhibitions:
2009 Gallery Eigenheim, Bilderwahn4, Weimar, GE
2009 Tapetenwerk, Gallery KUB², "Simeliberg" Leipzig, GE
2008 EHF 2010, Verkaufsausstellung, Berlin, GE
2008 Sint Lucas Gallery, "Poetic Digital", Brussels, BE
2007 EHF 2010, Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin, GE
2007 Neue Sächsische Gallery/ “Hochsprung” Chemnitz, GE
2006 Beursschouburg Flemish Culture Center, Brussels, BE
2006 Else-Heiliger-Fond Scholar Exhibition, Berlin, GE
2004 Marianne Brandt Contest, “The Poetry of the Functional”, Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, GE
2004 Atelier Mommen, Brussels, BE
2003 Stuttgarter Filmwinter/ Expanded Media Art Festival, Stuttgart, GE
2001 Backup Festival, Weimar, GE
2001 Gallery Andrè Kermer, Trias, Leipzig, GE
Works in public Collections:
Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
Bibliography:
2009 Bilderwahn4, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery Eigenheim, Weimar, DE
2008 Digital Poetics Sint Lukas Gallery, Art magazine, Brussels, BE
2004 Re:search - Transmedia Text Series 03, Brussels, BE
2004 The Poetry of the Functional, International Marianne Brandt Contest, Catalogue, Chemnitz, GE
2003 Stuttgarter Filmwinter Media Festival, Festival Catalogue, Stuttgart, GE
2002 Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Festival Catalogue, GE
1999 Neu Deli, Exhibition Catalogue, Weimar, GE