Thyra Schmidt

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Thyra Schmidt (* 1974 in Pinneberg near Hamburg ) is a German visual artist .

life and work

Thyra Schmidt studied from 1996 to 2000 at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Fine Art, with Peter Tuma and 1999/2000 at the Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Japan. From 2000 to 2001 she studied with Dörte Eißfeldt at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig and from 2001 to 2005 with Thomas Ruff at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf . She lives and works in Düsseldorf.

In her work, Thyra Schmidt combines photographic and filmic means with mostly self-written texts and uses them to create indoor and outdoor installations. "They are interpersonal events, often based on personal experiences, which she reflects in a poetically constructed manner."

At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Norway , Thyra Schmidt realized the art project I can't just be nowhere in the urban area of ​​Oslo, Norway, in 2009 . “The title I can't just be nowhere underlines the direct character of the Oslo installation in public space and also refers to essential aspects in Thyra Schmidt's work: the presence of the human figure, the focus on the moment and the direct reference to the location, because the The images and thoughts that Thyra Schmidt prints on the posters are always related to the architecture on which they are presented. They show large-format photo and text works with themes that appear private and are mounted on the outside surfaces of residential buildings, public buildings and shops. The coherent installation, which stretched over eleven stations in three central districts of Oslo, addressed the ambivalence between intimacy and the public in urban space. "

Teaching

From 2015 to 2017 Thyra Schmidt lectured artistic photography at the Institute for Art & Art Theory at the University of Cologne .

Scholarships (selection)

  • 2017 working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
  • 2017 Artist in Residence, Pink factory, Hongcheon, South Korea
  • 2009 Art Foundation NRW
  • 2009 ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), exhibition funding
  • 2006 + 2007 State Chancellery NRW, travel grant for Norway
  • 1999 DAAD, integrated study abroad at Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art

Solo exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2020 Rendezvous , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions, Düsseldorf
  • 2018 Outside the camera's perspective , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibitions, Düsseldorf
  • 2015 Blue T-shirts, jeans and sneakers , Martin Leyer-Pritzkow exhibition, Düsseldorf
  • 2014 About Thieves and Love , Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal
  • 2013 Staccato , Art Association Paderborn
  • 2009 I can't just be nowhere , Goethe-Institut Norway a. ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
  • 2005 outdoor posters , photographic collection / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
  • 2005 back to happiness , Gaby Kraushaar Gallery, Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2020 Longing for the now , u. a. with Ulrike Kötz, Ulrike Möschel, Julia Murakami, Rebecca Ann Tess, Schloss Biesdorf , Berlin
  • 2018 When the medium becomes routine - Questioning photography now , u. a. with Jörg Paul Janka , The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary ART (GCA) in Chongqing , China
  • 2017 Moving Shadow , Hongcheon Art Museum, Hongcheon , South Korea
  • 2014 5x3 (with Alien Oosting and Eleni Kamma), Kunstraum Düsseldorf
  • 2014 another place / another space / together , off-u. Project spaces (curated by Karl Heinz Rummeny and Alex Wissel), Quadriennale Düsseldorf
  • 2013 Neblina no outro lado da rua (with Hannes Norberg and Juergen Staack), estemp, São Paulo , Brazil
  • 2012 Language is the house we live in , Art Film Day, Düsseldorf
  • 2012 Missing spot , Städtische Galerie Offenburg
  • 2009 La Zona (with the artist group Fehlstelle), installation in urban space, Milan , Italy
  • 2009 couples & relations , Drei Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne
  • 2009 Rachel , pilot_ projekt für Kunst eV, Düsseldorf
  • 2008 Missing point à Vallauris , video installation in urban space, Vallauris , France
  • 2008 Stalking Utopia , Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
  • 2007 Dialoge , Museum for Photography Braunschweig
  • 2007 Absence Notes (with the artist group Fehlstelle), Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 2007 Plat (t) form 07 , Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland
  • 2005 Muse heute , Städtische Galerie and Kunsthalle Bremen

Publications (selection)

  • 2019 Über Diebe und die Liebe / On Thieves and Love , artist book, artist text, German / English, Edition Cantz, ISBN 978-3-947563-67-8
  • 2012 Fehlstelle , artist's book, with a text by Valeria Liebermann, published by Städtische Galerie Offenburg, modo Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86833-102-8
  • 2010 Thyra Schmidt, I can't just be nowhere , with texts by Anne Rodler and Thomas W. Rieger, extra Verlag, ISBN 978-3-938370-42-1
  • 2005 Muse today , exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Bremen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erik Schönenberg: New Art Association Wuppertal - Thyra Schmidt - About thieves and love. Retrieved January 29, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ A b Thyra Schmidt, I can't just be nowhere. extra Verlag, 2010, accessed on January 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Thyra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinneberg