After studying art history, Bavarian history and church history in Munich and Berlin from 1984 to 1990, Christiane Lange worked at the Klewan Gallery in Munich until 1999. In 1994 she completed her doctorate on the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Schädel. In 2000 she started as curator at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich, and became director from 2006 - 2012. She started a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2003, and started as an honorary professor in 2011. Director of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart since 2013.
