Tamiko Thiel
Artworks exploring the intersection of space, place and cultural memory.
UPCOMING:
OPENING ONLINE on "Common Garden" ->>> NFT SALE on objkt.com:
In the online exhibit: On the Edge of the Horizon: Navigating Post-Natural Landscapes
- DATE/Time: Thursday 27 March 18:00 CET
- Register here for Common Garden: https://lu.ma/yrdix76v
- OBJKT.com link will appear in this press statement. :-)
Co-curated by Diane Drubay (Blueshift) & Tina Sauerlaender (Radiance VR), in cooperation with objkt.com

"Invasive Growth" AR sculpture, in the exhibit "On the Edge of the Horizon" (Common Garden online platform) & NFT sale on objkt.com
"Invasive Growth" was originally created for and premiered in "Augmented Species: Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies," an international AR touring exhibition in museums and sculptural gardens around the world. The exhibit was curated by Tina Sauerlaender and Ursula Ströbele, and organized by MoMAR (Damjanski, David Lobser, Monique Baltzer).
ONGOING:
Until 06. April @ Zukunftsmusik Nürnberg: 8h-0h - Art in Public Space
“Zukunftsmusik" ("Music of the future") – transforms the former Kaufhof department store site through art and culture. It is funded by the Free State of Bavaria in the Bavarian Cities Funding Program.
L: Atmos Sphaerae (video, w/music by Christoph Reiserer) - M: ReWildAR AR Livestream - R: Enter the Plastocene AR Livestream
We are showing 3 works on large LED displays, in the windows of the former Kaufhof department store in the Nurenberg pedestrian zone! Atmos Sphaerae, originally created as a VR immersive experience, is being shown in its video version, with music by Christoph Reiserer. ReWildAR and Enter the Plastocene are being shown as large format AR livestreams - passersby stop and stare and take "selfies", as they see themselves in the displays embedded in the virtual worlds!
Until 14 Sept. 2025 @ Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
"FLOWERS. Art from the Renaissance to Artificial Intelligence"
Featuring: Forest Flux/Waldwandel, Augmented Reality wall-sized livestream.
The exhibition "Flowers Forever," curated by Franziska Stöhr and Roger Diederen for the Kunsthalle Munich, now travels to Rome in collaboration with the curator Suzanne Landau. It features Waldwandel/Forest Flux as a large, wall-sized AR livestream projection!

Forest Flux/Waldwandel AR livestream large projection installation.
Installation view at the Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2025.
Until 25 May 2025 @ KUNSTHALLE VIENNA
"Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991" surveys the history of digital art from a feminist perspective, focusing on women who worked with computers as a tool or subject and artists who worked in an inherently computational way. With my 68 years, I am the second youngest in the exhibit!The exhibit premiered at MUDAM Luxembourg, and has now followed curator Michelle Cotton as she takes over the directorship of the Kunsthalle Vienna!

Featuring the sketches and photos I did as lead product designer on the first prototype of the Connection Machines CM-1/CM-2. For more on the machines, the first commercial AI supercomputers, see my CM website.
Until May 2025 @ Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The AR exhibit "DEMO-" AR exhibit, from wava.ar and Netzwerk Paulkirche features:
Revolution and Return, interactive AR installation, by Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023

Revolution and Return, interactive AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2023.
At the Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Photos: Ben Livne Weitzman
Silver coins of the German states, carrying the profiles of their respective German monarchs and symbols of their personal power, fall from the sky. With a touch you can transform them into the founding constitutional documents of the first unified German nation-state, which forced them to give up control of their realms in 1848.
But what happens when gold ducats of the powerful Prussian King and Austrian Emperor begin to rain down from above?
NOTES: On the first, failed attempt at democracy in Germany, in 1848.
Official City of Munich Art in Public Space:
#JulietToo
AR installation, Tamiko Thiel, 2022
Sited @ the Juliet Capulet sculpture in Marienplatz
Commissioned for the ARORA / #MakeUsVisible / denkFEmale Munich AR virtual monuments exhibit, 2022. All artworks are visible around the world as well - follow links on website.

#JulietToo, AR installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2022.
Marienplatz Munich, next to the Old City Hall/Toy Museum
Marienplatz Munich, next to the Old City Hall/Toy Museum
Created by sculptor Nereo Constantini to honor the tragic, 13 year old heroine of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the sculpture was donated to Munich in 1974 by its Partner City Verona, Italy. In the wake of #MeToo there has been much discussion of the tourist practice of rubbing (and licking) the patina off of Juliet's right breast "to bring luck".
To contribute to the discussion, #JulietToo surrounds the Juliet sculpture with her body positive avatars as amazon and as Viking shield maiden, warrior women who bared their breasts in battle as a sign of strength, rather than submission.