C. Wulffen (b. 1954) received his training in Stuttgart, Germany, culminating in an MFA from the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste (State Academy of Fine Arts). He has been an Emeritus professor (Cleveland Institute of Art) since Janurary 2023. He previously taught at the Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart and Freie Hochschule (Independent Art Academy), Metzingen, among other institutions, in Germany. He has lectured in both Germany and the United States. His work has been supported by artistic residencies from the Kunststiftung (Art Foundation) Baden-Württemberg and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
The German-American artist currently lives and works in Washington DC. He is represented by Michael Sturm Gallery (Stuttgart, Germany) and Reinhold Maas Gallery (Reutlingen, Germany) and collaborates with Niklas van Bartha London UK. He has a long distinguished repertoire of group shows and solo exhibitions investigating both visual and structural systems of language. The manifestation of these investigations have taken numerous forms: from installations of abstract, geometric images to the presentation of objects such as billboards, display panels, photo displays, poetry on paper, and floor installations to develop numerous catalogues. His work has been extensively collected by the Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst (Reutlingen, Germany) since 1990. In 2017, parts of the collection of the Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst (Foundation for Concrete Art), were donated to the Municipal Museum of Art Reutlingen, Kunst Museum Konkret, including works from C. Wulffen.
Selected Solo/Two person Exhibitions(*indicates publication)
2022 All in All, SHED Art Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2021 Du und Ich, Gallery MAAS, Reutlingen, Germany
2021 Wulffen, Gallery Sturm / Schober, Vienna, Austria
2018 More Wulffen, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany *Arbiten Aus System, Konkrete Kunst 1954-2011, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
Konkret, Reutlingen, Germany
2016 sheet 1300/1000/16: a work from the Foundation’s Collection, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Malerei, Galerie Reinhold Maas, Reutlingen, Germany
2013 Christian Wulffen, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 2012 Christian Wulffen, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2011 *Bridges and Other Constructions, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX 2009 *It Is, It is Not [A Pulse Exhibition], moCa Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2007 Christian Wulffen, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany *How to Improve your English, McDonough Museum, Youngstown State University,
Youngstown, OH
2006 Christian Wulffen, Niklas von Bartha Gallery, London, England
2005 Christian Wulffen: 2002 I (6.11.02) 16 Lines, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2003 Neue Arbeiten (New Works), Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany 2002 Wand (Wall), Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2001 Neue Arbeiten (New Works), Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany En gros & en detail Werke von A bis Z, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst,
Reutlingen, Germany
2000 Christian Wulffen / Paul Uwe Dreyer, Hohenloher Kunstverein eV, Langenburg Honfratshaus, Langenburg, Germany
1999 retour de (back form), Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
1998 Stand Basel, Kunsthaus Kunstverein Baselland/Muttenz, Switzerland Stand Stuttgart, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
Stand Frankfurt, Galerie Durhammer, Frankfurt, Germany
1997 *Stand, Singen Museum of Art, Singen, Germany
1996 Arbeiten (Works), Köstring-Maier Gallery, Munich, Germany Weg zur Wand (Path to the Wall), März Galerie, Mannheim, Germany
1995 Sätze (Sentence), ACP Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
1994 Block Wand Boden (Block Wall Floor), Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
1993 Stand (Stand), Demmet Gallery, Osnabrück, Germany
Carrier 2, Galerie Forum Kunst, Weilheim, Germany
Order, ACP Viviane Ehrli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 Ein Gang, Galerie Freie Kunstschule Nürtingen, Nürtigen, Germany
1991 Arbeiten (Works), ACP Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Distance, Municipal Museum, Sindelfingen, Maichingen, Germany
1990 Mass und Zuhl (Measurement and Number), Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
1989 Pictures, Kunstraum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Yearly presentation of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Exhibition, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (2003 – present)
Gläserne Härten, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen Konkret, Reutlingen, Germany 2019 art KARLSRUHE 2019, Galerie Reinhold Maas, Reutlingen, Germany
2018 *The Great Lakes Research, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland
Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2011 and so on 7, 8, 9, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2010 Building Peers, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2009 Niklas Von Bartha, Hartmut Boehm, C. Wulffen and others, Niklas von Bartha Gallery, London, England
2007 Double-Take, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
2006 additive parallel synchronous, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany Galerie Michael Sturm, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
2005 Villa Merkel, Esslingen Museum of Art, Esslingen, Germany
1999 Risiko Curating (Risk Curating), a project of the Kunstverein Neuhasen, Fildern, Germany
Artists of the gallery, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
*Vordemberge-Gildewart, City Museum Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany Drawing, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
1995 Art 26, Art Basel, ACP Viviane Ehrli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland The picture – a side note, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, ACP Viviane Ehrli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 1994 Galerie unter dem Turm, Stuttgart, Germany
1992 12th traveling exhibition scholarship holders 1991/92 of the Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg in Freiburg,
Wendlingen, Gaggenau, Mochental Castle, Engen,
Böblingen, Singen, Ostfildern, Aalen
1989 Marc Stefan Bremer / Christian Wulffen, HAGA 22, Tübingen, Germany 1987 Raum Mitte Fenster, Galerie Freie Kunstschule Nürtingen, Nürtingen,
Germany
1985 No grip, no hold, no spring, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Mörikestrasse 69, Stuttgart, Germany
LECTURES / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2016 Teaching is Communication, Lunch on Fridays lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2015 Skill, De-skill, Re-skill, Lunch on Fridays lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2013 Where Do We Stand, Lunch on Fridays lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2011 What is Critique, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Participant in Final Critiques, Maryland Institute College of Art
2009 What is Critique I & II, Lunch on Fridays lecture series, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2007 Cleveland Institute of Art Foundation Lecture Series
2006 Lecture in Architecture Department, Cooper Union, New York, NY 2002 LAZI Akademie (Academy of Film and Photography), Esslingen, Germany
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1996 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany
Fellowships / Awards
2013 Hoffberger Program, Hoffberger Critic-In-Residence, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2012 Seminar Scholarship, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2010 Faculty Development Grant, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2006 Seminar Scholarship, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
1997 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1990 Kunststiftung (Art Foundation) Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Teaching Experience
2023 - Present Emeritus Professor, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2012 - 2022 Professor, Foundation and Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2016 - Visiting Professor, College of Fine Arts, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
2003 - 2012 Associate Professor, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2000 - 2003 Community College, Reutlingen, Germany
1998 - 2000 Artistic Associate of the Dean, Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
1990 - 1998 Instructor, Freie Hochschule (Independent Art Academy), Metzingen, Germany
Bibliography
2018 An American City: Volume I, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, edited by Michelle Grabner, Cleveland:
FRONT/Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018
*Arbiten Aus System, Konkrete Kunst 1954-2011, edited by Holger Kube Ventura, Reutlingen: Kunstmuseum Reutlingen Konkret
2010 *Take a Form, Buildings and Other Constructions, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas: Dallas Contemporary, 2010
2009 *It is, It is not, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009
2007 *How to Improve Your English, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown: Youngstown State University, 2007
2005 Klasse Paul Uwe Dreyer, Entourage de ?, Villa Merkel, (Municipal Art Museum) Esslingen, 2005
2002 Christian Wulffen, Zum Beispiel oder Spielen, Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2002
2000 *Zum 100. Geburtstag, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, (Municipal Museum of Osnabrueck, 2000
1999 Ermen, Reinhard, “Christian Wulffen-retour.de,” Kunstforum International, October-December 1999
1998 Stand, Kunsthaus Baselland, Issue 2, 1998
Ausstenllung ist Katalog – Katalog ist Ausstellung, Städtisches Kunstsmuseum (Municipal Art Museum), Spendhaus Reutlingen, 1998