Myriam Thyes
Myriam Thyes is a new media artist from Switzerland and Luxembourg, living in Germany.
1986-92 Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf, Prof. Nan Hoover. Since 1994, Thyes participates in exhibitions and festivals internationally.
AIR: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1990); Glasgow, UK (2008); Styria AIR, Graz, Austria (2015).
Awards: Depict Award, Encounters Festival, Bristol (UK), 2005; MultiMedia Prize, Avanca Festival, Portugal, 2006. Web / New Media Award, AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2017. Best Experimental Award, Near Nazareth Film Festival, Israel, 2017. Best Video Art Award, FICOCC Five Continents Intl. Festival, Venezuela, 2018.
Fundings by: City of Dusseldorf, State of Northrhein-Westfalia, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, State of Luxembourg, City of Graz + Province of Styria (Austria).
Publications: ReVisions (2007); Glasgow Styles / Magnify Malta (2012), both Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg.
Myriam Thyes is represented by the foundation imai - inter media art institute, Dusseldorf.
Artist Statement
My themes and visual researches deal with powerful symbols, myths and signs from architecture, society, politics, movies and religions. My artworks are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, reevaluation, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, I work directly with them, contradict or re-interpret them with visual means, or focus on their hidden aspects. Using video, animation, collage, abstraction, and found footage, well-known figures undergo transformations, start to communicate and build new relations. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues. My works are conceptual and visually sensual at the same time. Although they look different in style, they all have something in common: Constructive and deconstructive visual composition, as well as a content that doesn't tell stories but rather comments society, (art) history and philosophy.
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Ausstellungen/Events
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Aachen Deutschland |
Sigrid von Lintig, Myriam Thyes, Tobias Vetter | Ausstellung | – | Aachen | Deutschland | |
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Thalwil Schweiz |
Myriam Thyes | Ausstellung | – | Thalwil | Schweiz |