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The Goethe Institute in Hanoi will hold an exhibition of 50 large format woodblock prints by Christiane Baumgartner entitled “Woodcut in the Digital Age” from September 8-30.
German graphic artist Christiane Baumgartner will be a guest artist in Hanoi for three months from September 1. She works primarily in printmaking and is particularly well known for her large scale woodcuts based on stills from her own video recordings.
She will hold exchanges in October and November with German and Vietnamese artists about new trends in woodcuts today, and give week-long workshops at art schools in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.
Christiane Baumgartner, born 1967, studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany from 1988 to 1994 and at the Royal College of Art in London, England from 1997 to 1999.
Her work is in the collections of museums in Leipzig, Vienna, London, New York, and Amsterdam.
She is the first artist to be awarded the newly created annual residency grant, presented by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony and organized jointly with the Goethe Institute in Vietnam.
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