*1974 in Pinneberg (near Hamburg)
lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Studies
2001–2005 Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, with Thomas Ruff
2000–2001 University of Art (HBK) in Braunschweig, with Dörte Eißfeldt
1999/2000 Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1996–2000 University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Fine Arts (Painting and Photography), with Peter Tuma
Grants
2022 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2018 Travel grant for Chongqing, China
2017 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Pink Factory, Hongcheon, South Korea
2013 Artist-in-Residence, estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Scholarship for media art, onomato e.V., Düsseldorf
2009 Kunststiftung North-Rhine-Westphalia, project funding
2009 ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart), project funding
2006+2007 Staatskanzlei North-Rhine-Westphalia, travel fellowship for artists, Norway
1999 DAAD, scholarship for the Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Japan
Teaching
since 2017 Neue Fotografie, Düsseldorf, platform for artistic photography, initialised with Hannes Norberg
2015–2017 University of Cologne, Institute for Art & Art theory, teaching assignment for artistic photography
Solo Exhibitions & Projects / Selection
2022 Creation of a chronogram for Museum Haus Opherdicke, Kreis Unna
2021 innen inside intérieur, Künstlerloge Ratingen
2021 Ettlinger/Schmidt (with Stefan Ettlinger), Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2020 Rendezvous, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2018 Außerhalb des Blickwinkels der Kamera, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2017 elle, Bove (exhibition project by Armin Hartenstein), Düsseldorf
2015 Blaue T-Shirts, Jeans und Turnschuhe (Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers), Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2014 Über Diebe und die Liebe (On Thieves and Love), Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal
2013 Staccato, project in the public space, Kunstverein Paderborn
2011 23.9.1992, di.vitrine, Düsseldorf
2009 I can’t just be nowhere, Goethe-Institute Norway & ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2008 Blaue Blume (with Stefan Löffelhardt), Pavilion Brunnenstrasse, Berlin
2006 Pictures on billboards, Düsseldorf
2005 Pictures on billboards, Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
2005 zurück zum Glück (the return to luck), Gallery Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
Group Exhibitions & Projects / Selection
2023 „“ (with Christina Kral), STUDIOSPACE Lange Straße 31, Frankfurt a. M.
2023 DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2021 Pictured as a Poem, KAI 10|Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
2021 the kitchen happening (projekt by Judith Samen), Düsseldorf
2021 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part III, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2021 DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2020 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part II, GEH8, Dresden
2020 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part I, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
2019 Circle of Looks (project together with Anne Schülke, Carol Pilars de Pilar, Adwoa Adjei), NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
2019 Flugblätter (project by Birgit Jensen), Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, England and Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2018 Questioning Photography Now, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (GCA), Chongqing, China
2018 Bove-Expat, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2018 Flying Letters / Vlugschrift / Flugblätter (project by Birgit Jensen), Pictura in Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Renga-gura art & culture, Maebashi, Japan
2017 Moving shadow, Hongcheon Art Museum, Hongcheon South Korea
2017 Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2016 Daimon, onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
2015 Experimentale, Heinrich-Heine-Institute, Düsseldorf
2014 5x3 (with Alien Oosting and Eleni Kamma), Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2014 another place / another space / together, off and project spaces, Quadriennale Düsseldorf
2013 Neblina no outro lado da rua (with Hannes Norberg and Juergen Staack), estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Die Sprache ist das Haus in dem wir leben, Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2012 Fehlstelle, Städtische Galerie Offenburg 2011 Maulwurftremor, Villa Marx, Viersen
2010 Raum Follows Function (project by Johannes Döring), Foyer, Düsseldorf
2010 Katalog (project with Hannes Norberg and Tobias Hantmann), Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2009 La Zona (with Fehlstelle), installation in the public space, Milan, Italy
2009 couples and relations, Gallery DREI Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne
2009 Rachel, pilot_ projekt für Kunst e.V., Düsseldorf
2008 Congress of Futurologists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2008 Fehlstelle à Vallauris, video installation in the public space, Vallauris, France
2008 Stalking Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2007 Kongress der Futurologen, Aktivist, Eisenhüttenstadt
2007 Dialoge, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
2007 01/01, poliflur, Berlin 2007 Abwesenheitsnotizen (with Fehlstelle), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2007 Plat(t)form 07, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 Wazzup, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
2006 Rachel, Laden 44, Düsseldorf
2005 Muse heute, Kunsthalle Bremen
2005 Dialoge, Siemens Arts Program, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Krefeld
2003–2012 Fehlstelle, artist group with Johannes Döring, Barbara Hilski, Thomas Neumann and Juergen Staack, collaborative projects and installations in public space, in Germany and abroad
Curatorial Activities
2022 VOR DEN BILDERN. Photography as Inspiration, international exhibition with 31 participating artists, concept and organisation together with Hannes Norberg, Katharina Maderthaner and Christian Schreckenberger, NKR – Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
2016 zat No.4, artist book, edition portfolio, project with Anne Schülke and Detlef Klepsch
2015 Hellwach in der Dämmerung zeigt sich die Schönheit – Darauf hatte sie nur gelacht und JA gesagt, Marie Gerlach, Stefan Löffelhardt, Hannes Norberg, exhibition at Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2006–2007 Rachel, artist-run space in Düsseldorf, organized together with Yun Lee and Veronika Peddinghaus
Publications / Selection
2023 Thyra Schmidt: Rendezvous, artist's book, published by DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin
2019 Thyra Schmidt: Über Diebe und die Liebe / On Thieves and Love, artist's book, published by edition cantz / DCV, Berlin
2019 Circle of Looks. A Dream. artists' book, ed. Anne Schülke, Carol Pilars de Pilar, Thyra Schmidt, texts: Anne Schülke, drawings: Carol Pilars de Pilar, design: Thyra Schmidt
2018 Thyra Schmidt: Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers, artist's book (English version)
2012 Fehlstelle, artists' book, text by Valeria Liebermann, ed. Städtische Galerie Offenburg, published by modo Verlag, Freiburg
2010 Thyra Schmidt: I can’t just be nowhere, texts by Anne Rodler and Thomas W. Rieger, published by extra Verlag, Berlin
2008 Thyra Schmidt: 9.07 2.08, artist's book
2005 Muse heute, exhibition catalogue, ed. Kunsthalle Bremen
2005 Importe, Fehlstelle, artists' book
Public Lectures
2023 Rendezvous, book launch together with Marion Eisele, Nachtfoyer Spezial, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2022 Artists'talk together with Sarah Kürten and Marion Eisele, curator of the exhibition Pictured as a Poem, KAI 10|Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
2020 On Thieves and Love, book reading at Nachtfoyer Spezial, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2016 Jetzt oder vorher (Now or before), Literaturhaus Dortmund
2013 Einer redet vor sich her und einer kommt dazu (Someone talking to himself, and someone else joining him), onomato, Düsseldorf
2009 I can’t just be nowhere, ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
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*1974 in Pinneberg (near Hamburg)
lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Studies
2001–2005 Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, with Thomas Ruff
2000–2001 University of Art (HBK) in Braunschweig, with Dörte Eißfeldt
1999/2000 Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1996–2000 University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Fine Arts (Painting and Photography), with Peter Tuma
Grants
2022 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2018 Travel grant for Chongqing, China
2017 Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Pink Factory, Hongcheon, South Korea
2013 Artist-in-Residence, estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Scholarship for media art, onomato e.V., Düsseldorf
2009 Kunststiftung North-Rhine-Westphalia, project funding
2009 ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart), project funding
2006+2007 Staatskanzlei North-Rhine-Westphalia, travel fellowship for artists, Norway
1999 DAAD, scholarship for the Hiroshima City University, Faculty of Art, Japan
Teaching
since 2017 Neue Fotografie, Düsseldorf, platform for artistic photography, initialised with Hannes Norberg
2015–2017 University of Cologne, Institute for Art & Art theory, teaching assignment for artistic photography
Solo Exhibitions & Projects / Selection
2022 Creation of a chronogram for Museum Haus Opherdicke, Kreis Unna
2021 innen inside intérieur, Künstlerloge Ratingen
2021 Ettlinger/Schmidt (with Stefan Ettlinger), Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2020 Rendezvous, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2018 Außerhalb des Blickwinkels der Kamera, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2017 elle, Bove (exhibition project by Armin Hartenstein), Düsseldorf
2015 Blaue T-Shirts, Jeans und Turnschuhe (Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers), Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2014 Über Diebe und die Liebe (On Thieves and Love), Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal
2013 Staccato, project in the public space, Kunstverein Paderborn
2011 23.9.1992, di.vitrine, Düsseldorf
2009 I can’t just be nowhere, Goethe-Institute Norway & ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2008 Blaue Blume (with Stefan Löffelhardt), Pavilion Brunnenstrasse, Berlin
2006 Pictures on billboards, Düsseldorf
2005 Pictures on billboards, Photographische Sammlung/ SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
2005 zurück zum Glück (the return to luck), Gallery Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
Group Exhibitions & Projects / Selection
2023 „“ (with Christina Kral), STUDIOSPACE Lange Straße 31, Frankfurt a. M.
2023 DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2021 Pictured as a Poem, KAI 10|Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
2021 the kitchen happening (projekt by Judith Samen), Düsseldorf
2021 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part III, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2021 DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2020 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part II, GEH8, Dresden
2020 Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt (Longing for the Now), Part I, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
2019 Circle of Looks (project together with Anne Schülke, Carol Pilars de Pilar, Adwoa Adjei), NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
2019 Flugblätter (project by Birgit Jensen), Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, England and Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2018 Questioning Photography Now, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art (GCA), Chongqing, China
2018 Bove-Expat, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2018 Flying Letters / Vlugschrift / Flugblätter (project by Birgit Jensen), Pictura in Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Renga-gura art & culture, Maebashi, Japan
2017 Moving shadow, Hongcheon Art Museum, Hongcheon South Korea
2017 Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2016 Daimon, onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
2015 Experimentale, Heinrich-Heine-Institute, Düsseldorf
2014 5x3 (with Alien Oosting and Eleni Kamma), Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2014 another place / another space / together, off and project spaces, Quadriennale Düsseldorf
2013 Neblina no outro lado da rua (with Hannes Norberg and Juergen Staack), estemp, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Die Sprache ist das Haus in dem wir leben, Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2012 Fehlstelle, Städtische Galerie Offenburg 2011 Maulwurftremor, Villa Marx, Viersen
2010 Raum Follows Function (project by Johannes Döring), Foyer, Düsseldorf
2010 Katalog (project with Hannes Norberg and Tobias Hantmann), Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
2009 La Zona (with Fehlstelle), installation in the public space, Milan, Italy
2009 couples and relations, Gallery DREI Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Cologne
2009 Rachel, pilot_ projekt für Kunst e.V., Düsseldorf
2008 Congress of Futurologists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2008 Fehlstelle à Vallauris, video installation in the public space, Vallauris, France
2008 Stalking Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary
2007 Kongress der Futurologen, Aktivist, Eisenhüttenstadt
2007 Dialoge, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
2007 01/01, poliflur, Berlin 2007 Abwesenheitsnotizen (with Fehlstelle), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2007 Plat(t)form 07, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 Wazzup, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
2006 Rachel, Laden 44, Düsseldorf
2005 Muse heute, Kunsthalle Bremen
2005 Dialoge, Siemens Arts Program, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Krefeld
2003–2012 Fehlstelle, artist group with Johannes Döring, Barbara Hilski, Thomas Neumann and Juergen Staack, collaborative projects and installations in public space, in Germany and abroad
Curatorial Activities
2022 VOR DEN BILDERN. Photography as Inspiration, international exhibition with 31 participating artists, concept and organisation together with Hannes Norberg, Katharina Maderthaner and Christian Schreckenberger, NKR – Neuer Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
2016 zat No.4, artist book, edition portfolio, project with Anne Schülke and Detlef Klepsch
2015 Hellwach in der Dämmerung zeigt sich die Schönheit – Darauf hatte sie nur gelacht und JA gesagt, Marie Gerlach, Stefan Löffelhardt, Hannes Norberg, exhibition at Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2006–2007 Rachel, artist-run space in Düsseldorf, organized together with Yun Lee and Veronika Peddinghaus
Publications / Selection
2023 Thyra Schmidt: Rendezvous, artist's book, published by DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin
2019 Thyra Schmidt: Über Diebe und die Liebe / On Thieves and Love, artist's book, published by edition cantz / DCV, Berlin
2019 Circle of Looks. A Dream. artists' book, ed. Anne Schülke, Carol Pilars de Pilar, Thyra Schmidt, texts: Anne Schülke, drawings: Carol Pilars de Pilar, design: Thyra Schmidt
2018 Thyra Schmidt: Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers, artist's book (English version)
2012 Fehlstelle, artists' book, text by Valeria Liebermann, ed. Städtische Galerie Offenburg, published by modo Verlag, Freiburg
2010 Thyra Schmidt: I can’t just be nowhere, texts by Anne Rodler and Thomas W. Rieger, published by extra Verlag, Berlin
2008 Thyra Schmidt: 9.07 2.08, artist's book
2005 Muse heute, exhibition catalogue, ed. Kunsthalle Bremen
2005 Importe, Fehlstelle, artists' book
Public Lectures
2023 Rendezvous, book launch together with Marion Eisele, Nachtfoyer Spezial, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2022 Artists'talk together with Sarah Kürten and Marion Eisele, curator of the exhibition Pictured as a Poem, KAI 10|Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
2020 On Thieves and Love, book reading at Nachtfoyer Spezial, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2016 Jetzt oder vorher (Now or before), Literaturhaus Dortmund
2013 Einer redet vor sich her und einer kommt dazu (Someone talking to himself, and someone else joining him), onomato, Düsseldorf
2009 I can’t just be nowhere, ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
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