Ivonne Thein

At the center of my cross-media practice is the human body, its socio-political status and our contemporary idea of ​​the body in the digital age. When people meet in everyday life, they also perceive themselves as bodies. In our performance-oriented society, there is a growing tendency towards objectification that encodes the body as an arbitrarily manipulable mass. We can do something with our body, shape it or manipulate it. Today it...

At the center of my cross-media practice is the human body, its socio-political status and our contemporary idea of ​​the body in the digital age. When people meet in everyday life, they also perceive themselves as bodies. In our performance-oriented society, there is a growing tendency towards objectification that encodes the body as an arbitrarily manipulable mass. We can do something with our body, shape it or manipulate it. Today it seems omnipresent, permeable and somehow overcome, and increasingly resembles a set of possibilities. In some works I deconstruct him and create body images that also raise the question of identity, dissolution, transience, gender and post-humanism. In other works, I refer to the strongly taboo topics of failure and motherhood in the art world. Failure is an essential part of artistic practice. The process of failure often results in an intensive examination of the creative process with one's own work. In the art world, however, failure is only negatively proven. The potential of failure is only recognized in success and at a distance from being overcome.

Ivonne Thein, studied photography and film with Susanne Brügger and 
Cindy Gates at the University of Applied Science Dortmund and find art at the RMIT Melbourne. Thein has received support through fellowships including Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Berlin Senat. Her work has been exhibited in venues such as Fotomuseum Winterthur, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Lentos Linz, CO Berlin, Kunsthalle Kiel, Deutsche Hygienemuseum Dresden, and Amelie A. Wallace Gallery New York.