Ira Thiessen’s artistic work deals with objects and symbols that evoke memories of childhood, migration,
and cultural influences. Materiality serves as her central medium to make questions of identity and memory visible. Her works move between staged photography and immersive installations, where familial influences, cultural heritage, and collective memory are placed in new esthetic contexts. At the same time, she reflects on the political and social systems that have significantly influenced her biography – from the Soviet Union to Russia and then to Germany.
Born in 1983 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thiessen moved to Germany as part of her family’s migration. She studied Artistic Photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and has already presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. In 2017, she received the Lotto Branden- burg Art Prize in Berlin for her work “Privet Germania” and conducted workshops on conceptual photography at the Goethe Institute in Beijing in 2016. Today she lives and works in East Westphalia and is the mother of a son.
and cultural influences. Materiality serves as her central medium to make questions of identity and memory visible. Her works move between staged photography and immersive installations, where familial influences, cultural heritage, and collective memory are placed in new esthetic contexts. At the same time, she reflects on the political and social systems that have significantly influenced her biography – from the Soviet Union to Russia and then to Germany.
Born in 1983 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thiessen moved to Germany as part of her family’s migration. She studied Artistic Photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and has already presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. In 2017, she received the Lotto Branden- burg Art Prize in Berlin for her work “Privet Germania” and conducted workshops on conceptual photography at the Goethe Institute in Beijing in 2016. Today she lives and works in East Westphalia and is the mother of a son.
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