We are pleased to present the exhibition program for 2025. Below, you can read more about the three artists. The opening of the first exhibition with Judith Hopf will take place on March 29 from 1-4 PM. We will continue our outreach efforts for citizens facing challenges, and the long-table dinners will become a permanent part of the program this year.
A big thank you to the contributors to Kunsthal Thys' exhibition and communication program 2025:
Statens Kunstfond Den Jyske Kunstfond, Spar Nord Fonden, Hoffmann og Husmans Fond, Augustinusfonden, 15. Juni Fonden, Sparekassen Thy Fonden, William Demant Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Tømmerhandler Vilhelm Bangs Fond, Færch Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Thisted Kommune, LAG Thy Mors og Lemvigh-Müller Fonden
Judith Hopf (DE)
29.03.2025 - 01.06.2025
Since the 1990s, Judith Hopf has developed a distinctive artistic language that spans sculpture, film, drawing, performance, and stage design. In her works, Hopf addresses social inscriptions and power structures in political and private realms, as well as the impact of visible and invisible architectures, technologies, and objects on the human body and its movements. Often referencing everyday as well as modernist and postmodernist aesthetics, and employing materials such as brick, concrete, and glass, her works challenge habitual views, representations, and behaviors.
Judith Hopf (b. 1969 in Karlsruhe, Germany), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Bremen (1990–92), Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1992–96), Meisterschülerin with Prof. Katharina Sieverding. Since 2008, she is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Hopf lives and works in Berlin.
Elif Saydam (TR/CA)
14.06.2025 - 03.08.2025
Through an expanded painting practice, Turkish-Canadian artist Elif Saydam uses the language of ornamentation and decoration to rearrange systems of valuation and emphasis. Recent solo and group exhibitions include RAUS at Franz Kaka (Toronto); Hospitality at Audain, Simon Fraser University Galleries (Vancouver); A Crack We Sprout Through at SANATORIUM (Istanbul); it's not you it's me at Sentiment (Zürich); Stealth at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich); Eviction Notice at Oakville Galleries Gairloch Gardens (Ontario); Cleaning up the Neighborhood at All Stars (Lausanne); Lose Enden at Kunsthalle Bern (Bern); F*rgiveness at Tanya Leighton (Berlin); and ...schläft sich durch at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg). Saydam's first monograph TWO CENTS was published in 2022 with Mousse Publishing (Italy) and they frequently collaborate on interdisciplinary text-based projects with other artists and writers. Saydam lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and İzmir, Türkiye.
Camilla Steinum (NO)
16.08.2025 – 12.10.2025
Camilla Steinum’s long-term deliberations on the reciprocal effects between objects and living bodies derive from the artist’s practice as a sculptor as well as her commitment to investigate questions such as: In what distinct ways are we, as humans, orientating ourselves within the world, shaping it and how is the world shaping us? Where does the interior start and the exterior end? How does the meaning we associate with objects influence our spacial experience and movement?
Camilla Steinum acquired a Master of Fine Arts at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2012, as well as a BA in Fine Art/Textiles prior. In 2015, Steinum was a resident at the artist-led school „The Mountain School of Arts“, Los Angeles, USA, and has participated in residencies including JAI, Tabakalera, San Sebastian in 2022, NKDale, Dale in 2020, and Wiels, Brussels in 2020. Her works are exhibited in Norway and on an international level.
Her solo shows include "Projection Props", Wiels, Project Room, Brussels in 2023, "Farewell Information", Soy Capitán, Berlin in 2021, "zusammen und getrennt", Kunstverein Göttingen in 2020, "symptom, sympathy", Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster in 2020, "Transaction", Goya Curtain, Tokyo in 2019, and "Dubious Desire for Cleanliness", Rod Barton, London in 2015.
She has participated in numerous group shows, including exhibitions at KIT, Düsseldorf in 2022, STATIONS, Berlin in 2021, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen in 2019, Grenland Kunsthall, Porsgrunn in 2018, CCA Andratx Kunsthalle, Majorca in 2018, and the 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Oslo in 2017.
www.camillasteinum.com
