Thyra Holst

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Thyra Holst (* 1968 in Hattingen ) is a German visual artist .

Career

Thyra Holst initially received dance pedagogical training from Else Lang, who emerged as an expression dancer from Mary Wigman's school . Since 2010 she has been transferring these skills to her textile art . Their preferred technique is the self-made wet felting from self- dyed wool . It is increasingly using other textile processing techniques, e.g. B. spinning and weaving and uses non-textile materials such as film, concrete or dried plants. In 2016 she found - inspired by the landscape of the Hebrides - a new kind of abstract landscape collage in which she uses minerals and parts of plants to give structure and which she presents on curved paper sheets. In 2017 she dealt with the dialogue between cultures in her art. In order to counteract the growing racism she perceived in Germany , she initiated the 12-month traveling exhibition "Cultures in Dialog", in which 13 artists from Morocco , Algeria , Egypt , India and Germany carried out their work 2019-2020 on the subject of "Building bridges and tear down walls ”in public buildings close to the people.

Thyra Holst and Anjan Ghosh ( India ) have been the artist duo "thyra & anjan" since 2018 . They create digital paintings over 7,500 km. You have been exhibiting internationally since 2019.

Since 2020 Thyra Holst has maintained another artist partnership with Khawar Saleem Ghumman ( Pakistan ) in the field of textile art . Ghumman excels at traditional Pakistani embroidery.

Participation in exhibitions

  • 2019 "Cultures in dialogue - building bridges and tearing down walls"
    • Town hall of the city of Rösrath
    • "Forum" shopping center, Gummersbach
    • Ministry for Social Affairs, Integration and Equality of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
    • Headquarters of the VHS of the City of Cologne
    • District building of the Rheinisch Bergisches Kreis, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2019 Rovereto, Italy, AIAP - NATIONAL COMMITEE of IAA / Official Partner UNESCO "Human Rights # Clima"
  • 2018 Villa Verte, dialogue point of the Goethe-Institut in Oujda , Morocco
  • 2017 Brauweiler Abbey , Pulheim
  • 2017 Education workshop Schloss Eulenbroich , Rösrath, international art exhibition & double exhibition with Renée Politzer
  • 2016 Nideggen Castle Museum in the Düren district
  • 2015 Brauweiler Abbey , Pulheim
  • 2015–2016 Chamber of Crafts in Cologne , GEDOK exhibition
  • 2013–2015 international group exhibition "... in motion"
  • 2013-2014 Women's Museum (Bonn)
  • 2010 Soltau Game Museum , commissioned work

literature

  • Exhibition catalog "Cultures in Dialogue - Building Bridges and Tearing Down Walls" ( ISBN 978-3-00-062093-5 )
  • Antje Soléau: “Everything felt or what? From the old handicraft to today's felt art ”, textile art international. Information for creative design ( ISSN  0934-3342 ). 2016, issue 3
  • Antje Soléau: What does felt have to do with dance? The felt maker Thyra Holst. In: Textilkunst international. Information for creative design ( ISSN  0934-3342 ). 2014, issue 3, pp. 115–118.
  • Exhibition catalog ... in motion , German + English, ( ISBN 978-3-9815744-0-1 ). 2013
  • Exhibition catalog Single Moms , Frauenmuseum Bonn, ( ISBN 978-3-940482-59-4 ). 2013, pp. 40, 41, 92
  • Exhibition catalog Wer war Mona Lisa , Frauenmuseum Bonn, ( ISBN 978-3-940482-75-4 ). 2014, pp. 46, 129

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women's Museum shows single parents in art, history and the present . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Holst, Thyra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hattingen