Thyra Holst

Thyra Holst was born in 1968 and grew up in Cologne, Germany. After the abitur (A-levels) she was trained dance-educationally by the Mary-Wigman pupil Else Lang in Cologne.
She taught classic and modern dance for amateurs for 10 years. In her succeeding work in an open-air museum she dealt with traditional crafts in householding and textile processing. Since 2003 she has engaged in water felting for fine art, and since 2010 she has been regularly exhibiting her textile art. In 2016, Thyra was assimilated as a member of Gedok Cologne, which is an association of fine arts of German female artists.
Thyra's works show socio-critical character in clear shapes, and a quiet colouration.
Since 2016 Thyra Holst has been creating collages inspired by the landscape made of cardboard with acrylic and show a powerful, dance-like curved shapes. The structure of the surface is developed by adding wool fibres, herbs, algae or plaster. The choice of the pigments orientates itself at the traditional Harris Tweed. The nuances of the intensity of colour is influenced by the quality structure of the surface and the substantial use of a lot of water.

self-taught

2018
Goethe-Kontaktpunkt Oujda, Marokko

2017
Schloss Eulenbroich, Internationale Kunstausstellung
Schloss Eulenbroich, Doppel-Ausstellung

2016
Vom Filzhandwerk zur Filzkunst, Burgenmuseum Nideggen des Kreis Düren, Mitinitiatorin und fachliche Beirätin, Katalog

2015+2016
MODE®N und Anziehungskraft, Jahresausstellungen der Gedok Köln, Handwerkskammer zu Köln

2015
Standpunkte, Abtei Brauweiler

2013-2015
In Bewegung …, Katalog
Historische Spinnerei Gartetal, Klein Lengden
Musée du Feutre in Mouzon/Frankreich
Pfalzmuseum, Forchheim
Craft Museum of Finland in Jyväskylä/ Finnland
Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum
Fa. ZüricherStalder in Lyssach/Schweiz
Textilsammlung Max Berk in Heidelberg

2013+2014
Wer war Mona Lisa und Single Mums, Frauenmuseum Bonn, Katalog