Christina Lissmann is a Cologne-based artist working across painting, photography, video, and installation. Her work engages questions of consciousness and the unconscious, dream, perception, and human embodiment. Trained in medicine, philosophy, art history, and ethnology, and shaped early on by her work alongside Sigmar Polke in Cologne, she approaches art as a form of inquiry. Since 2018, the focus of her practice has been painting.

Selected Exhibitions

2026
Sacred Origins, ArtKlub Bonn, Bonn (solo)

2025

Aftershow – Aesthetic Positions between Retreat and Resistance, Cologne (group)

2023
Mindful by Christina Lissmann, Cap San Diego, Hamburg (solo)

2022
Pearls & Bones Paintings 2020–2021, Boutwell Schabrowsky, Munich (solo)

2015
Outer Space, Space Operation, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool City Council, Australia (group)

2014
Christina Lissmann – Fellow 2013 des Kollegs Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche Haus, Weimar (solo)

2013
In Conversation, Neue Kunst Gallery (solo)
Art Karlsruhe, Neue Kunst Gallery (group)

2012
Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney (solo)
Terra Incognita, Hotel de Rome, Berlin (solo)

2010
La Pala di San Zeno, Christina Lissmann incontra Andrea Mantegna, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona (solo)

2009
Hugo Boss Hong Kong, Exhibition Space, Hong Kong (solo)
Art HK, Felix Ringel Gallery, Hong Kong (group)

2008
Das Herbarium des Heraklit, Zeithaus / Autostadt Wolfsburg (solo)

2007
Allzeit, Zeithaus / Autostadt Wolfsburg (solo)

2006
EU.RO.PA, Europapassage, Hamburg (solo)

2005
Das Herbarium des Heraklit, Medienzentrum Bremen (solo)

2004
Pain of Separation, Kunstraum Chelsea, Cologne (solo)
Internationaler Medienkunstpreis 2004: unSICHTBARes / pain of separation, ZKM Karlsruhe (group)

2003
The Cellproject I – Art in Situ, Centrum für Innovative Medizin, Hamburg (solo)

2001
Brave New World, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (solo)
Monitor Mirror Space, Zehn Räume Auf 20 Fuß, HafenCity Hamburg (group)

Education

PhD in Philosophy and Art Theory, University of Vienna
MA in Philosophy, Art History, and Ethnology, University of Cologne
Studies in Medicine, University of Cologne
Early artistic formation through her work alongside Sigmar Polke in Cologne

Fellowships / Awards / Grants

2022
Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neustart Kultur

2013
Fellowship, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar

2004
International Media Art Prize, ZKM Karlsruhe, for unSICHTBARes / pain of separation (group)
Thrombotrac Art Award, SIMFO Bayreuth (solo)