Britta Thie – Studio

The artist Britta Thie is known for her works at the intersection of painting, film and digital media, in which she addresses the aesthetics and mechanisms of our mediatised world. From 7 March to 4 May 2025, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg will be showing Thie's hyperrealistic paintings for the first time as an installation-based solo presentation entitled Studio. For Studio, Britta Thie draws on the visual worlds of the film industry and transposes them into the exhibition space. A real film set becomes the exhibition setting and the technical equipment in the paintings - camera cars, spotlights and other devices - become the main characters. Their hyperrealistic depiction opens up a theatrical dimension that seems to tell of life before, during and after filming. With Studio, Britta Thie refers to so-called ‘prop graveyards’, in which entire film sets and their narratives, detached from time and space, wait to be revived for another season.