Ivonne Thein

My interest in the body as part of my artistic practice was initiated by the fact that I grew up with an identical twin sister. This special situation of having an identical twin sister on the one hand, and the wish to be accepted as an unique individual on the other hand, was a big challenge in my life when I was a teenager. Finding my own identity and and it's permanent verification within society, proved to be the basis of my artistic endeavor. I work with the body in a socio-cultural context in terms of its role in image-generating media like photography, television or film. The issues I investigate are ranging from gender constructions to beauty ideals up to the influence of the "žartificial generated body" on our traditional image of the body. Likewise, my relentless use of this media is an attempt to uncover its manipulative mechanisms. My artistic aim is to question the visual depiction of the body in context to the increasing digitization of the »real world«. I show this visual shift in a series of photographic images, videos or mixed-media installations for instance. Digital techniques became my favored implement, to give a direct link to this digital parallel world. This technique also allows me the possibility to cre...

2014 Body Concious, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, NY

2014 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australien/ Deutschland, VHS-Photogallery, Stuttgart, Germany


2013 Körpersubjekte, Gallery FotoK, Vienna, Austria

2013 Die Leinwand des Leibes, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden (catalog)
2013 boys ,n‘ girls – immer wieder anders, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

2012 Von Sinnen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (catalog)

2012 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australien/ Deutschland, Zephyr Galerie, Mannheim, Germany
2012 Het Gewichtige Lichaam, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands (catalog)
2012 Das Institut – für Identitätskultur und Zeitgeschmack, Berlin, Germany

2011 Fedtsalon, Salon Neucologne, Berlin, Germany
2011 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia / Germany, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, AUS
2011 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia / Germany, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, Adelaide, AUS
2011 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia / Germany, Queensland Collage of Art Gallery, Brisbane, AUS
2011 Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia / Germany, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, AUS

2010 Thirty-Two Kilos, Goethe Institut Helsinki, Finnland (solo)
 2010 Incredible Me, Galerie ...