Born 1970, Rheine, Germany
Based in Sheffield
EDUCATION
2006 City and Guilds 7302 (Certificate in Delivering Learning: An Introduction), WEA, Sheffield
2005 Professional Development Course, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield
2005 MA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1999 German Diplom Fotografie/ Film Design, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (main tutor: Arno Fischer)
(1994 exchange to the Photography Department of Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (main tutor: Roger Beecroft))
EXHIBITIONS
2007 participation in Host6: Beauty, part of the Sheffield Pavilion project at the Bienale in Venice and the Documenta in Kassel
2007 Photo screening as part of the ‘Transmission’ event, D Q bar, Sheffield
2006 ‘Mobformat’, part of the Format 06 Photography Festival, Derby
2004 – ongoing Host4: Cinema, London, Amsterdam (Holland), Annonay (France), Newcastle, Falmouth, Sheffield (show reel comprising 36 artists, DVD)
2006 Assembly, Bloc Space, Sheffield (group screening event)
2005 ‘Pop’, The Hubs, Sheffield (group show)
2004 ‘A Sense of Place’, Bloc Space, Sheffield (group show)
2003 ‘A Sense of Place’, Psalter Lane Campus, Sheffield (group show)
1999 ‘Game over’, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (group show)
1998 ‘Focus’, Bochum, Germany (group show)
AWARDS
2007 Arts Council England Award
2004 Arts Council England Award
COMMISSIONS
2006 photographic work for the artist Michael Day
2004 photographic work for the artists’ group ‘Host’
1997 ‘Menschen im Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus’, photographic book about a hospital in Herdecke, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2007 part of the ‘Host’ section in a book about Sheffield artists launched at the Biennale in Venice and the Documenta in Kassel, ISBN 978 1 899926 86 0
2000 part of ‘Parallelwelten’, DGV-Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISBN 3-931126-51-X (exhibition catalogue)
1997 ‘Menschen im Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus’, Klartext Verlag, Essen, Germany, ISBN 3-88474-561-1 (photographic book about a hospital in Herdecke, Germany)
TEACHING
2003 support in teaching BA Fine Art students at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1994 as part of a Nottingham Trent University programme teaching photography at a Comprehensive School in Kirkby-in-Ashfield
1991 teaching (amongst other things) photography at Camp Staunton Meadows, Clover, Virginia, USA
all work © Christiane Thalmann 2007