Britta Thie

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Britta Thie (* 1987 in Minden ) is a German artist , model and actress .

Life

Thie's parents are art teachers. She first began studying psychology, which she did not finish. She then studied fine art at the Art Academy in Münster and at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2011/12 she received a DAAD scholarship for a stay at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York . In 2013 she completed her studies as a master class student with Hito Steyerl at the UdK Berlin .

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In 2015 Britta Thie published the web series Translantics , on behalf of Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Arte Creative , in which she is director, author and protagonist at the same time. In 2016 she staged the play I'MDB - A Live Drama about the tragedy of the rating at the Münchner Kammerspiele . The live filmed performance was published on Arte.tv in 2017 under the title The Superhost . From 2016 to 2017 Britta Thie was visiting professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and taught performance in the art department.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions at Anthology Film Archives , (New York), Mumok (Vienna), Auto Italia (London), the Sandy Brown Gallery (Berlin), the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), the Kunstverein Göttingen, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin . In 2015 she received a working grant from the Art Fund Foundation and in 2018 a sponsorship award from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the "Media Art" category.

Britta Thie worked as a model for Louis Vuitton , Jil Sander and Eckhaus Latta.

Web links

Commons : Britta Thie  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Koch: The video artist Britta Thie shot her first films in Minden. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Natalie Mayroth bento: Britta Thie makes fun of Berlin art hipsters. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Britta Thie: Translantics . ( schirn.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  4. ↑ https://www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de/inszenierung/britta-thie . ( muenchner-kammerspiele.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ The Superhost | ARTE. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ New appointment of the Friederichs Endowed Professorship. HfG Offenbach, accessed on February 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.schirn.de/fileadmin/SCHIRN/Presse/Ausstellungen_2015/Britta_Thie/Schirn_Presse_Britta_Thie_Bio_eng.pdf
  8. ↑ Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin: Press release on the exhibition WELT AM DRAHT (June 2 - September 18, 2016). May 27, 2016, accessed February 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Thie, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and model
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden