Christoph Runné
4-596 Union St.
Vancouver, BC
V6A 2B8
mobile: 604 783 7948
email: christoph_runne@yahoo.com

Christoph Runné is a Vancouver-based experimental film, video, and installation artist. Through his work, he explores the unhidden yet seemingly invisible world around us. He creates visual tone poems with a humanitarian heartbeat whose minimalist and impressionistic methodology contradicts the complex human conditions with which Runné engages.

Exhibitions, Commissions, & Curatorial Work

2010 Portraits ,The Blair Bush Project
Installation, Digital Video, Colour
InterUrban Gallery Vancouver
Far, Up Close

2010 Portraits
Installation, Digital Video, Colour
Prague Czech Republic
LA STRADA

2009 Recollection
T.l Frederick
InterUrban Art gallery
Vancouver Canada
Curator: Christoph Runne

2009 Spaces
InterUrban Art gallery
Vancouver Canada
Curator: Christoph Runne

2009 Dance performance
Dance center-InterUrban Art gallery
Vancouver Canada
Curator: Christoph Runne

2009 Portraits
Installation, Digital Video, Colour
Mikkeli Art Museum
Mikkeli, Finland
Curator: Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti

Ovoids
Installation, Digital Video, Colour
Artist: Chris Welsby & Alan Steeves
InterUrban Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Christoph Runne

2008 The Blair/Bush Project
Collaboration: Faith Moosang
Installation, 16mm film, Colour & B&W
Alternator Gallery
Kelowna, BC, Canada
Curator: Jennifer Pickering

Baum
Installation, 16mm film, Colour
Exhibition: La Strada
Karlovy Vary Gallery
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Curator: Kirsimaria E. Törönen-Ripatti

Baum
Installation, 16mm film, Colour
Exhibition: Tina B.
Italian Embassy
Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Monika Burian

Unfolding
16mm film, Colour, 20 minutes
Heart of the City Film & Video Festival
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Festival Coordinator: Quin Martins

2007 Constructing Olympia
Installation, 16mm film, B&W
InterUrban Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Pamela Fairfield

Unfolding
16mm film, Colour, 20 minutes
Winnipeg Film Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Curator: Ben Donahue

2006 The Blair/Bush Project
Collaboration: Faith Moosang
Installation, 16mm film, B&W
Exhibition: Tina B.
Italian Embassy
Prague, Czech Republic
Curator: Anneke McGuire

2005 Portraits
Installation, Digital Video
Exhibition: CINEMACHINATIONS
InterUrban Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Pamela Fairfield

2004 River Run
Collaboration: Alexandra Dulic & Kenneth Newby
Installation, Interactive Digital Video
InterUrban Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Commissioned by: Margo Cane

River Home
Collaboration: Archer Pechawis
Interactive Digital Video Installation
Firehall Theatre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Commissioned by: Margo Cane

2003 untitled
Installation, 16mm film, B&W
Exhibition: 9E
InterUrban Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Pamela Fairfield

2002 Wind
Installation, Digital Video
Video In
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Ken Anderlini

2001 Kommeta Komma
Installation, Super 8 film, Colour
Exhibition: Zirkus Locomotive
Gotland, Sweden
Curator: Ylva Toernlund

Resident Ghosts
Installation, Digital Video, Colour
Commissioned by: The Portland Housing Society

2000 A Good Meal
Installation, 16mm film, Colour
Exhibition: A Good Meal
Kunsthaus Tacheles
Berlin, Germany
Curator: Torbjoern Berg

Synopsis
Collaboration: Martin Dostal
16mm Film, Colour
La Paroquia Chapel
Mallorca, Spain

Unfolding
16mm film, Colour, 20 minutes
Blinding Light Cinema
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curator: Alex McKenzie

1999 Selected Works
Zirkus Locomotive Studio
Stockholm, Sweden
Curator: Torbjoern Berg

1996 A Good Meal
Installation, 16mm film, Colour
Experimental Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
Coordinator: Ylva Toernlund

Arri
16mm film, Colour & B&W
PURE CINEMA
Edison Electric
Vancouver, BC, Canada

1995 Niebelungenland
16mm film, B&W, 5 minutes
Eiszeit Kino
Berlin, Germany

1993 Mother’s Little Helper
Super 8 film, B&W, 7 minutes
Micro cinemas
Berlin, Germany

Teaching Experience & Professional Work

2009 – present Instructor for a video response to the Olympics
grant from the city of Vancouver

2005 – present Instructor
“Experimental Video Group”
The Lifeskills Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada

1999 – present Instructor
“Optical Printing Workshop”
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada

1996 – present Instructor
“Hand-Made Filmmaking”
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada

2008 – 2009 Instructor
“Fearless City Mobile Project”
W2: Community Media Arts
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Instructor
“Arts for Developmentally Disabled Individuals”
Provincial Assessment Centre
Burnaby, BC, Canada

2007 – 2008 Gallery Director
Interurban Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada

2003 Technical Support
Theatre Production: Native Youths
Chief Dan George Center
Vancouver, BC, Canada

2000 Guest Speaker
“The Work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder”
Goethe Institute
Pacific Cinémathèque
Vancouver, BC, Canada

1984 – 1999 Assistant Set Designer & Set Construction
Various film & theatre projects, including:
Wings of Desire (1987, dir. Wim Wenders)
Querelle (1982, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Berlin, Germany

Education & Training

1995 – 2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Film
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada

1985 Certificate of Fine Furniture Making
Heinrich Huebsch Berufsschule
Karlsruhe, Germany

Grants