Birgitta Thaysen

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Birgitta Thaysen (* 1962 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German photo artist who lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Life

In 1985 Birgitta Thaysen began studying photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd and Hilla Becher and then studied video, painting and performance with Nan Hoover .

She has been working as a freelance photographer and media artist since 1992. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions.

In 2000, Thaysen founded the Düsseldorf School for Artistic Photography with fellow artist Katharina Mayer .

Topics and projects

In 1993, Thaysen dealt intensively with landscape photography for the first time in Hamminkeln in the Lower Rhine region, benefiting from a one-year scholarship funded by the Ministry of Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia. Three years later, in 1996, she created her photo documentation about the volcanic island of Stromboli , which tells of people and the volcano on the island of Stromboli, which is located in an extreme natural area north of Sicily, cut off from the neighboring islands. Since 1997 the artist has started teaching photography at various further education institutions. Since 1999 Thaysen has been involved in supplementing a steadily growing cloud atlas, which is created with the support of the German Weather Service Offenbach and analyzes the cloud formations, with photographs relating to the scientific dimension. For each cloud constellation, it provides a scientific interpretation and atmospheric interpretation that serves as the title of the picture.

In 2000 Thaysen founded the “School for Artistic Photography” in Düsseldorf with Katharina Mayer. Her courses promote photographic vision and the development of one's own visual language. The photo series “My Memory” was launched by Thaysen in 2001. It deals with the mechanisms of visual memory and the fact that seeing and recognizing in every form is linked to one's own consciousness. The video installation “Se ma yesh” was created in 2002 in connection with a work grant from the Düsseldorf Cultural Office. In 2002 Thaysen was in the artist village of En Hod in Israel as part of a German-Israeli exchange project . Her video setting, in which she deals with the Yiddish proverb and the landscape of the Carmel Mountains , is based on the Yiddish proverb of the same name. In the landscapes presented, the focus is on the path. From 2003 onwards, Thaysen devoted himself primarily to the topic of "Metamorphoses", which is where works with film and video were created. This resulted in films such as Tulip (2003), Looking for Inspiration (2006), Wolkenheim (2007) and “Namibia-Silent & Spaciously” (2009).

Since 2006, Thaysen has been working on the further development of the subject of films (moving images) in room installations (accessible images). So they realized in 2006 in the international exhibition dormART (curator Jan Hoet , Documenta IX, Kassel), the project Tulip Dreambox and 2008 in the exhibition Reflectiones in Boxmeer in the Netherlands, the project clouds home . Thaysen has been a research assistant and lecturer for photography at the FH Krefeld since 2010 and a member of the German Society for Photography (DGPh) since 2017 .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1993: Ringenberg Castle, City Gallery Ringenberg Castle
  • 1994: Portrait and Landscape Suzanne Biederberg Gallery Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 1996: Stromboli Casa Decorazione, Stromboli (Italy)
  • 1997: SchauRaum Galerie, Düsseldorf
  • 1999: SchauRaum Galerie, Düsseldorf
  • 2002: Guest studio En Hod / Haifa (Israel)
  • 2003: Atelier am Eck, Galerie Kulturamt, Düsseldorf
  • 2004: Cloud Pictures Deutsches Museum, Munich
  • 2005: Stromboli Casa Decorazione Stromboli (I) video stills & clouds over everything COR + interlübke by pesch Cologne
  • 2008: Reflectiones Culture department Wijerskapel Boxmeer (Netherlands)
  • 2010: inner ocean fifty-fifty gallery, Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions

  • 1992: Trondheim Art Academy, Norway
  • 1994: Artists' Association Malkasten Düsseldorf with Nan Hoover Museum Kunstpalast Ehrenhof Düsseldorf
  • 1997: Raum X Galerie Düsseldorf, catalog
  • 1998: Kulturforum Alte Post Neuss
  • 1999: Raum X Galerie Düsseldorf, catalog
    • Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, catalog
  • 2001: Galerie Rosenkranz Chemnitz, catalog
    • Strictly Puplic short film and video festival Düsseldorf
  • 2003: degenerate Museum Bunker Church Düsseldorf
    • Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, catalog
    • Kulturforum Alte Post Neuss
  • 2004: Signes der Nuit , Paris International Film Festival (France)
  • 2005: first decade , Museum of New Art (Mona), Detroit (USA)
    • Body in the blue NOISIVISION Breda (Netherlands) and Malkasten Artists' Association, Düsseldorf
    • c / ountryclub international video-art festival, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
    • Artpolitika (RU), video-art festival in Moscow, Kaliningrad and 14 other cities, DVD catalog
  • 2006: DormArt international art project on the subject of "Sleep" Dortmund, catalog
  • 2007: connected . Jewish cultural days. Old Museum Mönchengladbach
  • 2009: familia / inner ocean Kunstverein VirtuellVisuelle.V. Dorsten with Katharina Mayer
  • 2010: Large art exhibition Kunstpalast Ehrenhof Düsseldorf

Awards (selection)

  • 1993: Ringenberg grant
  • 2001: Marianne Brandt Prize for Photography. Exhibition and catalog participation
  • 2002: Working grant from the Düsseldorf Cultural Office to Israel
  • 2018: Nomination for the “DA art award” of the Giordano Bruno Foundation

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Birgitta Thaysen sS birgitta-thaysen.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Biography Birgitta Thaysen sS cinema-bleu.com
  3. ↑ Birgitta Thaysen - biography sS fiftyfifty-galerie.de (biography)
  4. ↑ Gallery - Thaysen sS cinema-bleu.com
personal data
SURNAME Thaysen, Birgitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen