12 Facts About Myriam Thyes

Myriam Thyes was born in Luxembourg and grew up in Zurich.

Since 1999, main artistic media of Myriam Thyes are video art, 2D computer animation, photography, and digital imagery.

Myriam Thyes co-founded artist group Strictly Public who were invited to participate at Berlin media art festival transmediale.

Myriam Thyes is member of Deutscher Kunstlerbund and Visarte.

Myriam Thyes started in 2005 a continuously growing series of Flash animations concerning flags, other national symbols, and relations between countries.

Myriam Thyes participated in the Art Colony Galichnik in Macedonia in Summer 2010.

Myriam Thyes asked her subjects to answer in their mother tongues and then subtitled their replies into English.

Myriam Thyes created a collage of images and voices in a two-channel video installation, called From Art Colony Galichnik with love.

Myriam Thyes creates a sensitive picture of the different personalities and characters, partly by matching the two sets of images.

Myriam Thyes, who has Swiss and Luxembourgian roots, puts the individual at the heart of her work.

Myriam Thyes has drawn a social portrait and created a kind of contemporary "Historienbilder".

Now, in her series entitled Glasgow Styles, Myriam Thyes takes the consistent next step, and combines the realistic, serial and documentary potential of photography with the formative, allegorising and metaphor-creating traditions of the fine arts.