Mirjam Thomann
Mirjam Thomann is an artist and lives in Berlin. She is interested in reflecting on and transcending architectural, social and institutional orders with the means of sculpture, installation, and text. In her works, she uses what is at hand at a certain site as an impetus, as material, space, and terrain, which she expands, supplements or comments on. This activation of what is there is combined with features such as reusability, combinability and movability of materials and fixtures.
Mirjam Thomann teaches as a professor at the Department of Art and Music at the University of Cologne, focusing on artistic practice with an expanded concept of materials. Her work has been shown internationally is represented by Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne.
EDUCATION
2006
University of Fine Arts, Fine Arts
Hamburg, Germany
1999
Kingston University of London, Foundation Studies in Art and Design
Kingston, United Kingdom
JURY
Kirsty Bell
Bettina Götz
Hou Hanru
Markus Schinwald
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
