Damien & The Love Guru

Often departing from everyday environments, Christiane Blattmann's sculptural practice aims to dissolve clear disciplines of creation and to question the autonomy of these domains. Sculpture appears as a spatial strategy to suspend oppositions between concepts of the inside and the outside. Her works are not so much hybrids of art and quotidian life, but rather a body of thinking figures that are designated as art objects.

Education

• Diploma in Fine Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 2013, Hamburg, DE
• Exchange Program, Goldsmiths University, 2011, London, UK
• Fine Arts and Architecture, Universität der Künste, 2006, Berlin DE

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

• The Law, Damien & The Love Guru, 2022, Zurich, CH
• Diananess, with Jannis Marwitz, Le Berceau, 2021, Marseille, FR
• Amou Four, Damien & The Love Guru, 2020, Brussels, BE
• Un-Break My Walls, Kunsthalle Münster, 2019, Münster, DE
• Die Gehaltene Hand, Marwan, 2018, Amsterdam, NL
• Paris Internationale, invited by Damien & The Love Guru, 2018, Paris, FR
• La Chute Enchantée, Damien & The Love Guru, 2017, Brussels, BE
• Where Is Everybody?, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, 2016, Hamburg, DE
• Tamina Amadayar und Christiane Blattmann, with Tamina Amadavar, Agnes Maybach, 2015, Cologne, DE
• Fittings & Divings, Oracle, 2015, Berlin, DE
• Baby Birds, with Jannis Marwitz, Dorothea Schlueter, 2015, Hamburg, DE
• New State Of The Birds, with Jannis Marwitz, Apes & Castles, 2015, Brussels, BE
• The City Dressed As A Lake, Galerie Conradi, 2014, Hamburg, DE
• Sessions 1-8, with Than Hussein Clark, Amstel 41, 2014, Amsterdam, NL
• Rotierende Interieurs, HFBK, 2013, Hamburg, DE
• Emperor! Emperor! Emperor!, with Than Hussein Clark, Coffer’s, 2012, Berlin, DE

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Art Cologne, Clages and Damien & The Love Guru, 2022, Cologne, DE
• The Sculpture Factory, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Imprimerie, Brussels, BE
• Look, Lightning Has Struck the Flowers, SUNDY, 2022, London, GB
  (conceived by Christiane Blattmann & Jannis Marwitz)
• Carrozzone, Arcade, 2022, Brussels, BE
• Sour Well, Nir Altman, 2022, Munich, DE
• Bread & Salt, The Community, 2021, Paris, FR
• Matchmaker, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru for Various Others, Loggia, 2021, Munich, DE
• The Fountain Show II, Sundy, 2021, London, UK
• Corps, MAMOTH, 2021, London, UK
• The Constant Glitch, Museum Leuven, 2021, Leuven, BE
• Friend of a Friend, hosted by Croy Nielsen, SVIT and Damien & The Love Guru for FOAF, Piktogram, 2021, Warsaw, PL
• She Cut That As The Spoons Know (egg), Marwan, 2020, Amsterdam, NL
• Squish, Ephremidis, 2020, Berlin, DE
• Commission Roundabout, HKW, 2020, Berlin, DE
• Where Do Streams Run To?, hosted by Damien & The Love Guru and Lucas Hirsch, Conceptual Fine Arts, 2019, Milan, IT
• Primary Functions, Rue de la Victoire 111, 2019, Brussels, BE
• Oui Oui Non Non, 24 Beaubourg, 2019, Paris, FR
• Jahresgaben, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, 2019, Essen, DE
• The Circle Club, Pulsar, 2019, Antwerp, BE
• Prati bagnati del monte Analogo, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, 2018, Essen, DE
• Autour De Ma Chambre, The Community, 2018, Paris, FR
• B-Sides, Saloon, 2018, Brussels, BE
• Verortung, Parallel, 2018, Vienna, AT
• Crib, Duflon-Racz, 2018, Brussels, BE
• Salon Vogue, New Bretagne Belle Air, 2017, Essen, DE
• 6 of Cups / Pleasure, La Pétanque, 2017, Paris, FR
• Rest in the Furrows of my Skin, Kunsthaus, 2017, Hamburg, DE
• B-sides & Rarities, Damien & The Love Guru, 2017, Brussels, BE
• If You Intend to be a Movie Theatre, Lucas Hirsch, 2017, Düsseldorf, DE
• Greener Grass, KS room, 2016, Steiermark, AT
• Incertitudes, Goethe Institut, 2016, Marseille, FR
• Micro Celebrities, Just Married, 2016, Brussels, BE
• Commission Roundabout, Editionen Klosterfelde, 2016, Berlin, DE
• Grand Café, Apes & Castles, 2016, Brussels, BE
• Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, 2016, Hamburg, DE
• Hundstage, Croy Nielsen, 2015, Berlin, DE
• My, My. A Body Does Go Around, Wilfried Lentz, 2015, Rotterdam, NL
• Incertitudes/Unsicherheiten, Goethe Institut, 2015, Paris, FR
• Transatlantic Transparency, Mathew NYC, 2014, New York, US
• Transatlantic Transparency, Mathew Gallery, 2014, Berlin, DE
• The Tenant, VI,VII, 2014, Oslo, NO
• Im Frühling, Darling, Kunstverein Hamburg, 2014, Hamburg, DE
• Plus Jamais Seul, Standards, 2013, Rennes, FR
• Cold Candy Crush Saga – Ruhe im Olymp, Hinterconti, 2013, Hamburg, DE
• Auflauf der Fassaden, Bundeskunsthalle, 2013, Bonn, DE
• Lord Byron 2021, Mavili Collective, 2013, Athens, GR
• Regard Benin Biennale, 2012, Cotonou, BJ
• Central Horizon Ltd, Penny Temporary, 2012, Neumünster, DE

Grants and Awards

• Neustart Kultur Stiftung Kunstfonds, 2020, DE
• Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Development Grant, 2015, DE
• Kulturbehörde Hamburg Kunstbeutel Prize, 2013, DE
• Hamburger Reisetipendium, Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V, Travel Grant, 2012, DE
• Karl H. Dietze Stiftung, Development Grant, 2012, DE
• Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Project Grant, 2011, DE
• HFBK Stiftung, Freundeskreise, 2009, DE

Residencies

• Fonderia Battaglia, 2021, Milan, IT
• Triangle France, 2019, Marseille, FR
• Cité Internationale des Arts, 2017, Paris, FR

Related Activities

• Co-curator of Look, Lightning Has Struck the Flowers, with Jannis Marwitz, Sundy, 2022, London, UK
• EVR AFTR #1, acquired for the public collection of FRAC Grand Large - Hauts de France, 2021, Dunkerque, FR
• Artist Talk, KASK, 2021, Ghent, BE
• The Constant Glitch, acquired for the public collection of M Leuven, 2021, Leuven, BE
• Tenants Turning Into Tress, or: The Leaves Are on Fire, writing commission, KIOSK, 2021, Ghent, BE
• Stadthöfe Public Sculpture Commission, 2020, Hamburg, DE
• Work acquired for Bundeskunstsammlung: Public Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2013, DE
• Co-founder of publishing house “Montez Press”, with Than Hussein Clark, William Joys, A.M. Bang, Emily Pope and Anja Dietmann, 2012, Hamburg, DE
• Co-organiser of screening “Dieter Froese”, with Jannis Marwitz, 2012, Rome, IT
• Project in Public Space, “Betongalerie / Towers of Hope”, with Jannis Marwitz, 2011-2013, Hamburg, DE
• Co-founder of exhibition space “Die Reliktion”, with Jannis Marwitz, Golden Pudel Club, 2009-2013, Hamburg, DE

• Un-Break My Walls, edited by Merle Radtke, with contributions by Merle Radtke, Huw Lemmey, Chloe Stead, Christiane Blattmann and Than Hussein Clark, published by Mousse Publishing, 2020, Milan, IT
• Where Is Everybody?, published by Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, 2016, Hamburg, DE
• Let’s All Become Me!, with Jannis Martwitz, edition Kunstwegen, 2015, DE
• Sessions 1-8, with Than Hussein Clark, with a contribution by Bärbel Trautwein, published by Montez Press, 2015, Hamburg, DE
• The City Is Dressed As A Lake, edited by Jakob Schillinger für Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V., with contributions by Christiane Blattmann, Valérie Knoll and Than Hussein Clark, published by Textem Verlag, 2014, Hamburg, DE
• Metis in Space, published by Montez Press, 2013, Hamburg, DE
• Emperor! Emperor! Emperor!, with Than Hussein Clark and William Joys, Montez Press, 2012, Hamburg, DE

Published Work

• Le Chauffage #1, edited by Emile Rubino and Felix Rapp, designed by Francesca Percival and Felix Rapp, 2020, Brussels, BE
• Error, Pfeil #9, edited by Anja Dietmann, published by Montez Press, 2012, Hamburg, DE
• Tenants Turning Into Trees, or: The Leaves Are on Fire, KIOSK, 2021, Gent, BE
• In A Year of 12 Moons, in: The Interjection Calendar 006, Montez Press, 2020, London, UK
• In Absence of Spirit, in: Taming the Horror Vacui #2, Rib, 2020, Rotterdam, NL

• The Law, GalleriesNow, 2022
• The Law, Contemporary Art Daily, 2022
• ‘Christiane Blattmann “The Law” at Damien & The Love Guru, Zurich’, Mousse Magazine, 2022
• Diananess, Contemporary Art Daily, 2021
• Diananess, Tzvetnik, 2021
• ‘Christiane Blattmann & Jannis Marwitz at Le Berceau’, Art Viewer, 2021
• Matchmaker, Art Viewer, 2021
• ‘Christiane Blattmann “Amou Four” at Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels’, Mousse Magazine, 2020 ()
• ‘Brussels Gallery Weekend’, Special Feature, Art Viewer, 2020
• Amour Four, Contemporary Art Daily, 2020
• ‘Christiane Blattmann bij Damien & The Love Guru’, Pieter Vermeulen, HART Magazine, 2020
• ‘Beauté Monstre’, Maud Salembier, L’art Meme, 2020
• ‘Christiane Blattmann “Un-Break My Walls’ at Kunsthalle Munster, Munster’, Mousse Magazine, 2019
• ‘Christiane Blattmann at Kunsthalle Münster’, KUNSTFORUM International, 2019
• Die Gehaltene Hand, Tzvetnik, 2018
• La Chute Enchantée, Daily Lazy, 2017
• La Chute Enchantée, Art Viewer, 2017