Sophie von Hellermann

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Sophie von Hellermann
Born1975 (age 4647)
NationalityGerman
Alma materRoyal College of Art

Sophie von Hellermann (born 1975, Munich) is an artist based in London who gained a fine art degree at the Royal College of Art. [1] [2] She went to art school in London, and stayed because "It's magical." [2] She has been inspired by German Romanticism and German Expressionism. [2]

Von Hellermann has shown work internationally in exhibitions including "Dear Painter… Paint Me" at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, "On The Ground" at Vilma Gold in London, "Post Modern" at Greene Naftali in New York, and Margate, England. [3] She was part of 2011's "Spring of September" annual exhibition in Toulouse. [4]

She also had solo exhibits "Cold as a Witch's Tit" at Firstsite, Colchester (2013), and "Play With Fire" at Vilma Gold (2015). [2] One of her pieces is in the permanent collection of the Tak Room at Hudson Yards as of 2019. [5]

After the lockdown due to COVID-19, she was part of a re-opening exhibit in Berlin in May 2020. [6]

In 2022, von Hellermann was commissioned by Oxford University's Jewish Country Houses Project and urKultur to create a site-specific artwork in Schloss Freienwalde, the former home of Walther Rathenau. [7]

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References

  1. Painting Alumni Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 4 Parkes, Olivia (August 19, 2016). "Identity: Deceptively Whimsy Paintings with a Political Stroke". Vice.com. Retrieved January 17, 2021. Artist Sophie von Hellermann isn't afraid to be cute, girly, and playful. Case in point: She answered our questions with drawings. But her work is anything but light.
  3. Payne, James (February 7, 2020). "Margate – Art In Ex Toilets And Family Homes". ArtLyst. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  4. Vigroux, Sophie (September 23, 2011). "Spring of September , Exhibitions , Haute-Garonne , Toulouse". LaDepeche . Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  5. Pei-Ru Keh (June 28, 2019). "Travel: Tak Room — New York, USA". Wallpaper* . Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  6. Brown, Kate (May 7, 2020). "What's It Like to See Art in the Era of Social Distancing? We Crawled Berlin's Newly Reopened Gallery Scene to Find Out: There's a cautiously optimistic buzz in the air in the German capital". ArtNet. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  7. www.thejc.com https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/the-country-home-of-an-assassinated-jewish-german-politician-is-transformed-by-art-3cIaVebmHehTR2GX0pYRlG . Retrieved 2022-07-21.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)