18/11/2025
It was truly a pleasure to welcome .thm to our gallery. As a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, her practice compellingly intertwines untold histories with the complex entanglements of beauty and violence. Drawing from historical events, poetry, prose, and personal experiences, her process of layering, fragmenting, collecting, and reassembling offers powerful insights into memory, knowledge, and remembrance.
Her impressive exhibition history includes presentations at the Dakar Biennale, The African Biennale of Photography / Bamako Encounters, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, and the African Diaspora Art Museum in Atlanta, alongside collaborations with Savvy Contemporary Berlin, Archive Sites/Books, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin.
Dior Thiam is also an acclaimed award-winning artist, having received the BBA Artist Prize 2023, the Schulz-Stübner Prize for Painting 2024, the 2024 ECOWAS Integration Prize, and most recently the STRABAG Art Award 2025, which accompanies her first institutional exhibition at STRABAG Art Vienna, open to the public from 14 November 2025.
We are grateful for her visit and look forward to future collaborations with great excitement.