Christiane Thalmann is an artist based in Sheffield, UK.
She is interested in a variety of issues around contemporary life and employs a range of media including photography, video, drawing, writing, needlework, sound, music, animation, altered pre existing material and installation.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Rich Mix, London, Site Gallery, S1, Bloc Space, The Tramshed and Create Coffee, Sheffield, Bristol Festival of Photography, Ladyfest, Manchester, South Square Gallery, Bradford, Crescent Arts Scarborough, Microgallery, Windsor, WAMMFest, Maryland, USA, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany, Zeche Scherlebeck, Herten, Germany, Gasthaus zum Baeren, Zurich, Switzerland and art and film festivals in Holland, France, Spain and Mexico.
Born 1970 in Rheine, Germany
Based in Sheffield, UK
EDUCATION
2005 MA Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
1999 Diplom Fotografie/ Film Design, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
(1994 exchange to the Photography Department of Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2007 Pavilion, Leeds, Redeye, Manchester, and Rhubarb Rhubarb, Birmingham
2006 Format Photography Festival, Derby
2005 Professional Development Course, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Cut Joint, Create Coffee, Sheffield
2011 Microgallery, Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor
2009 Learning to dance, Bloc Space, Sheffield
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Street Life, The Tramshed, Sheffield
2014 Sheffield Fringe: Bloc Open Studios
2014 Urban Research, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany, Gasthaus zum Baeren, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Sheffield Fringe: Bloc Open Studios
2013 Anonymous, Old Market Gallery, Rotherham
2012 Photo Open, East London Photo Month, Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London
2012 Chemistry of Incidence, part of Sheffield Fringe, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2011 Assembly 11: Last Requests, Bloc Space, Sheffield
2011 artgaffa& girlfriends, Zeche Scherlebeck, Herten, Germany
2011 Ever Remote, South Square Gallery, Bradford, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Crescent Arts, Scarborough
2011 WAMMFest (Women And Minorities in Media Festival), Towson University, Maryland, USA
2010 Crossing the Threshold, Bristol Festival of Photography, Bristol
2008 Ladyfest, Manchester
2007-2008 Host7: Home Disco, Sheffield, Annonay, France, Amsterdam, Holland, Santander, Spain, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Host6: Beauty, part of the Sheffield Pavilion project at the Bienale in Venice and the Documenta in Kassel
2007 Transmission, D Q bar, Sheffield
2006 Mobformat, Format 06 Photography Festival, Derby
2004 – 2006 Host4: Cinema, London, Amsterdam, Holland, Annonay, France, Newcastle, Falmouth, Sheffield
2006 Assembly, Bloc Space, Sheffield
2005 Pop, The Hubs, Sheffield
2005 Testing, Psalter Lane Campus, Sheffield
2004 A Sense of Place, Bloc Space, Sheffield
1999 Game over, FH Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
1998 Focus, Bochum, Germany
AWARDS
2007 Arts Council England Award
2004 Arts Council England Award
PUBLICATIONS
2007 part of the Host section in ‘The Sheffield Pavilion’ (distributed at the Bienale in Venice and the Documenta in Kassel, published by Site Gallery, Sheffield, distributed by Cornerhouse, Manchester, ISBN 978 1 899926 86 0)
2007 HAG DVD 02 Various – Host 7: Home Disco (DVD containing examples of work from 18 artists included in the Host 7:Home Disco screening programme, available though www.hostoffice.org.uk)
2004 HAG DVD 01 Various – Host 4: Cinema (DVD containing examples of work from 36 artists included in the Host 4:Cinema show, limited edition of 200, available though www.hostoffice.org.uk)
2000 part of ‘Parallelwelten’ (exhibition catalogue, DGV-Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany, ISBN 3-931126-51-X)
1997 ‘Menschen im Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus’ (photography/ text book about a hospital in Herdecke, Germany, Klartext Verlag, Essen, Germany, ISBN 3-88474-561-1)
COLLABORATIONS
2018 collaboration with film director Anastasia Shilovich
COMMISSIONS
2018 event photography for the Brothers Arms, Sheffield
2015 – 2017 music photography and poster design for the Brothers Arms, Sheffield
2015 event photography for Nadine and Peter Blok, Germany
2012 photography for Bloc Projects, Sheffield
2008 photography for the artist Neil Webb
2006 photography for the artist Michael Day
2004 photography for HAG (Host Artists’ Group)
1997 ‘Menschen im Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus’, photography/ text book about a hospital in Herdecke, Germany
OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
1990 EC Studios, Rheine, Germany
CONSULTANCY WORK
2012 art related computer consultancy work for the artist Cath Prior
TEACHING AND TUTORING
2007 1 to 1 tutoring photography, Sheffield
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
ARTS ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION WORK
2010 work for Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum
2008 – 2009 work for Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield
2005 work for Bloc Studios, Sheffield
2005 (with other people) organisation of group show at The Hubs, Sheffield
2004 (with other people) organisation of an art auction at the Workstation, Sheffield
1993 (with other people) organising Focus, a symposium and competition for photography, Dortmund, Germany
all work © Christiane Thalmann 2023