Christoph Girardet

Christoph Girardet works primarily with found footage, mostly from the 1950s and 60s. It serves as source material for his visual research, in the course of which he initially dissembles and deconstructs scenes, before reassembling them in a way such that the actual structures and internal mechanisms of their content are rendered visible. Analysis of found footage thus engenders its own visual world, one that is revealed also in series of small-format framed film stills.

Kunstverein Hannover (ed.): Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Tell Me What You See, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2014.

Christine Sprengler (ed.): Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, Palgrav Macmillan, New York 2014.

Kunstverein Hildesheim (ed.): Points of View, Orte der Fotografie, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin 2012.

Marente Bloemhoevel/Giovanna Fossati/Jaap Guldemond (ed.): Found Footage, Cinema Exposed, University Press, Amsterdam 2012.

Stiftung Niedersachsen (ed.): Kunst der Gegenwart aus Niedersachsen, Christoph Girardet, Vol. 67, artnetworx, Hannover 2012.

Akira Mizuta Lippit (ed.): Ex-Cinema, From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video, University of California Press, Los Angeles 2012.

Ingo Taubhorn (ed.): Veto, Zeitgenössische Positionen in der deutschen Fotografie, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin 2011.

Coreana Museum of Art (ed.): Featuring Cinema, Seoul 2011.

Christoph Girardet (ed.): Cephalopoda, Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres, 2009.

Elke Falat/Thomas Thiel (ed.): Into It, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin 2008.

Werkleitz-Gesellschaft (ed.): Werkleitz Festival, Amerika, Halle 2008.

SESC Avenida Paulista (ed.): Colateral 2, Quando a arte olha o cinema, São Paulo 2008.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (ed.): The Cinema Effect, Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, D Giles Limited, London 2008.

Régis Michel (ed.): L’oeil-écran ou la nouvelle image, 100 vidéos pour reponser le monde, Casino Luxembourg, 2007.

European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (ed.): Final Cut, Medienkunst und Kino, Experimentalfilm Workshop Verlag, Osnabrück 2007.

Adelina von Fürstenberg et al (ed.): Collateral, When Art Looks at Cinema, Charta, Milan 2007.

Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung/Land Niedersachsen (ed.): 10018 New York, Hannover 2006.

MARTa Herford (ed.): Zwischen Körper und Objekt, Herford 2006.

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (ed.): Sexy Mythos, Selbst- und Fremdbilder von KünstlerInnen, NGBK Verlag, Berlin 2006.

Rudolf Frieling/Wulf Herzogenrath (ed.): 40jahrevideokunst.de., Digitales Erbe, Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis heute, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006.

Uwe Rüth (ed.): Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Kristall, Stadt Marl Verlag, Marl 2006.

Johannes Bilstein/Matthias Winzen (ed.): Film, Ist und Als-ob in der Kunst, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2005.

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (ed.): The Memo Book, Filme, Videos und Installationen von Matthias Müller, Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2005.

Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (ed.): Christoph Girardet, B-Picture, 2005.

Kathrin Becker (ed.): Matthias Müller, Album, exh. cat. NBK, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2004.

Uwe Rüth (ed.): Deutsche Videokunst 2002-2004, Stadt Marl Verlag, Marl 2004.

Palais de Tokyo (ed.): Playlist, Paris 2004.

Richard Allen Gottlieb (ed.): Hitchcock Annual no.12 (2003-2004), Wallflower Press, New York 2004.

Manfred Strohm (ed.): Christoph Girardet, A Stolen Life, Modo, Freiburg i. Br. 2003.

Richard Cork (ed.): Breaking Down the Barriers, Art in the 1990s, Yale University Press, New Haven 2003.

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (ed.): Manual, Commissioned and recent work by Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, London 2002.

Annika Wik (ed.): Förebild film, Panoreringar över den samtida konstscenen, Aura förlag, Stockholm 2001.

Angela Lampe (ed.): Die unheimliche Frau, Weiblichkeit im Surrealismus, Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag, Heidelberg 2001.

Luigi Settembrini (ed.): The 1st Valencia Biennial, communication between the arts, Charta, Mailand 2001.

ZKM Karlsruhe (ed.): Update 2.0. Medienkunst Aktuell aus Deutschland, Goethe-Institut Karlsruhe, 2000.

Christoph Girardet/Volker Schreiner (ed.): Dialogue, 1999.

Museum of Modern Art Oxford (ed.): Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, Oxford 1999.

Kunsthalle im ARTMAX Braunschweig (ed.): Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner, Dialogue, Braunschweig 1999.

Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst (ed.): Sie sind auf Echt-Zeit Ihres Lebens!, Edition Haus Coburg, Delmenhorst, 1998.

Kunstverein Hannover (ed.): Christoph Girardet, Sick Heart Paradise, Hannover 1997.

Foro Artistico (ed.): Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner, Subsoil, Hannover 1996.

Kunstverein Celle (ed.): Christoph Girardet & Volker Schreiner, Grounded Sky, Celle 1994.