Birthe Piontek: Janus, Part II

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Birthe Piontek, "Janus, Part II," 2022

installation view

Birthe Piontek: Janus, Part II

Born and raised in Germany, Birthe moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the

University of Essen in Communication Design and Photography.

Birthe’s art practice explores the relationship between memory and identity, with a special interest in the topic of female identity and its representation in our society. Her main focus is photography but she also utilizes other art forms like installation, assemblage and collage to investigate to what degree our complex identities can be visualized.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, in both solo and group shows, and is featured in many private and public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Museum of Applied Arts in Gera, Germany.

Birthe's project The Idea of North won the Critical Mass Book Award 2009, and was published as a monograph in 2011. Her most recent work, Miss Solitude, was shown at Access Gallery in 2017 and was accompanied by the publication Miss Solitude : Cuttings.

Her photographs have appeared in a number of international publications like The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, Wired and The New Yorker among others.

Birthe teaches in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and is a member of the Piece of Cake Project.