{"id":2,"date":"2012-06-08T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artificialis.eu?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:11:14","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Thyra Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Born in Pinneberg, Germany (1974) Thyra studied fine arts (painting and photography) at the University of Applied Sciences and Art<\/a><\/span> in Hannover under Peter Tuma<\/a><\/span> (1996-2000). After a guest residence at the Hiroshima City University<\/a><\/span>, Japan (1999-2000), she frequented the University of Art (HBK<\/a><\/span>) in Braunschweig under D\u00f6rte Ei\u00dffeldt<\/a><\/span> (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2005, she was student at the Academy of Fine Arts D\u00fcsseldorf<\/a><\/span>, in the class of Thomas Ruff<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Together with other students of Thomas Ruff, she founded the artist group FEHLSTELLE<\/a><\/span> in 2003, which realised art-projects in public space until 2012 in Germany and abroad. Thyra\u2019s individual works are sometimes situated in public space like \u201cI can\u2019t just be nowhere\u201d in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute in Oslo<\/a><\/span>, Norway and \u201cStaccato<\/a><\/span>\u201d for the Kunstverein Paderborn<\/a><\/span>, Germany.<\/p>\n

Besides photography, Thyra already started in 2007 to experiment with scripture. For her participation at the \u201cCongress of Futurologists\u201d in Eisenh\u00fcttenstadt, Germany, she asked people to write words or small sentences on paper provided by her. Since this time, she reflects on images that are formed by writings. For \u201cI can\u2019t just be nowhere<\/a><\/span>\u201d in Oslo she combined text and photo. The texts were quotes by different authors, partly modified by her.<\/p>\n

Progressively, Thyra evolved from her initially mostly photo-based works to text dominated. In her solo exhibition in 2015 \u201cBlaue T-Shirts, Jeans und Turnschuhe<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers) at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow<\/a><\/span>, D\u00fcsseldorf, there were seven texts and only two photos. As supplement to the exhibition, the artist published in 2017 a small book including new works of the series from 2016. Therein are five photos and thirteen texts, all by herself. The arrangement of the words indicates how the sentence should be read, with breaks for dwell time. Moreover, these texts can be received as abstract pictures, especially for non-German speakers and particularly for people who cannot read Latin letters.<\/p>\n

During her artist residence in Hongcheon in 2017, South Korea, Thyra created a work, once again a text. Since it was exposed at the fa\u00e7ade of the Hongcheon Art Museum, it was translated into Korean. For the average western onlooker, who cannot read the letters the abstraction is evident. \ub450 \uce5c\uad6c\uac00 \uadf8 \ubc29\uc744 \ub5a0\ub09c\ub2e4. \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 \ub2e4\ub978 \uae38\ub85c \uac78\uc5b4\uac04\ub2e4 (Two friends leave the room and walk in different directions) was our artwork of the month of October 2017<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Thyra edited her artist book \u201c\u00dcber Diebe und die Liebe. On Thieves and Love<\/a><\/span>.\u201d with an English translation by Enrico Nake<\/a><\/span>, published by the edition cantz. For this, she transformed the typographic sheets from her exhibition \u201c\u00dcber Diebe und die Liebe\u201d at Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal<\/a><\/span> into a hardcover. By the insertion of blank pages, she extended the gaps created by the layout of the text.<\/p>\n

In her solo exhibition \u201cRendezvous<\/a><\/span>\u201d at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in D\u00fcsseldorf (2020), Thyra presented several flower still-lifes and one typographic sheet. Whereas her solo show \u201cinnen inside int\u00e9rieur<\/a><\/span>\u201d, at the K\u00fcnstlerloge Ratingen<\/a><\/span> (2021) consisted of a text in three parts, which was originally composed in German and translated into English and French and printed on separated sheets.<\/p>\n

Thyra\u2019s works were shown in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Germany and other countries such as the Netherlands, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China and the United States. She recently participated in group shows as \u201cPictured as a Poem\u201d at KAI 10|Arthena Foundation<\/a><\/span>, \u201cthe kitchen happening<\/a><\/span>\u201d by artist Judith Samen<\/a><\/span> and \u201cSehnsucht nach dem Jetzt<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Longing for the Now), Part III at Weltkunstzimmer<\/a><\/span>, all in D\u00fcsseldorf (2021). Besides, she taught artistic photography at the University of Cologne<\/a><\/span> from 2015 until 2017 and initialised with Hannes Norberg<\/a><\/span> the platform for artistic photography \u201cNeue Fotografie<\/a><\/span>\u201d in D\u00fcsseldorf in 2017. Moreover, she was awarded with several grants and artist in residencies in Germany and abroad. Additionally, she curated exhibitions and published artist books by herself and in collaboration with other creatives.<\/p>\n

Thyra lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/thyraschmidt.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Exhibition \u201cSzenerie\u201d: Graphic Characters Staged<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n