Baumgartner attended Leipzig's Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst from 1988 until 1994, before she completed her Masters in Printmaking at London's Royal College of Art in 1999. Baumgartner is most well-known for her huge woodcuts which were based on her own videos and films. She completed her Masters in Printmaking at the Royal college of Artists in London in 1999. She has said that she's "interested in woodcuts because of the conceptual aspect and not just the love of the material...it's about connecting the various mediums of video stills and the woodcut, about combining the first and the most advanced reproduction techniques to create an image ...." She first became famous in the UK as part of the EAST international in 2004 when she exhibited her work Shack and one year later, she had a huge solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.She was featured in the groundbreaking exhibition in MoMA, NY, Eye on Europe.In 2009, she was awarded the Teresa Bulgarini Award[7] for her woodcuts which are based on concepts of time, motion, velocity and acceleration. In 2012 she was awarded the first Goethe-Institut artist's residency in Vietnam.which was jointly sponsored by the state of Saxony. The three-month period began with Holzschnitt im digitalen Zeitalter which was a show at Goethe-Institut Hanoi. Then, she was invited to visit the country's art school and shared her experiences of cutting wood. In 2014-2015, her work was the subject of a traveling retrospective. It featured exhibitions at the Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimee (La Louviere), the Museum Kunstpalast (Dusseldorf) and the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva). The first catalogue of her oeuvre she published was also a part of the trip.
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