Sophie von Hellermann
Born 1975 in Munich, Germany
Lives and works in London and Margate
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Sophie von Hellermann – Monumental, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
2022
Out of Time, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Schloss Freienwalde, Bad Freienwalde, Germany (commission)
Von kommenden Dingen, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Making Myths, Greene Naftali, New York, US
2020
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2019
Swirls and Circles, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Sophie von Hellermann, Greene Naftali, New York, US
2018
New Waves, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2017
Stufen zur Kunst - Sophie von Hellermann, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Sophie von Hellermann, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2015
After a Fashion – A Play with Fire, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2013
Novel Ways, Greene Naftali, New York, US
Elephant in the Room, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2011
Crying for The Sunset, Vilma Gold, London, UK
The Lucky Hand, Greene Naftali, New York, US
2010
Who Shall Survive? Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
Sophie von Hellermann & Josh Smith,Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, Belgium; LeConsortium, Dijon, France
2009
Maximus, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
2008
Accidental Portraits, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Moonch, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
2007
Sophie von Hellermann, Greene Naftali, New York, US
2006
Judgement Day, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
No Man Good Island (with Brian Griffiths), Vilma Gold Project, Berlin; Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2005
Goddess in the Doorway, Greene Naftali, New York, US
Neuveaux Commanditeurs, Nancy, France
2004
Hot Fusion, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
On The Ground, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris, France
Jablonka Luhn, Cologne, Germany
Vacío 9 Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2003
On the Ground, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Wilkuren, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
Jablonka Galerie Linn Luhn, Cologne, Germany
2001
Vusering Hites, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Saatchi Gallery Presents Sophie von Hellermann, Saatchi Gallery,London, UK
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Let The Sunshine In, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2021
Sirens: Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK (commission)
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2020
Collection as Poem in the Age of Ephemerality | Works from the X Musuem Collection, X Museum, Beijing, China
2019
3 Zimmer, Küche, Bad, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, Germany
Im Grunde ist es die Wahrheit / Essentially it’s the truth, Magenta Plains, New York, US
2018
Digitalia (with hobbypopMUSEUM), Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
2017
Fleming Faloon, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920-today, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
2016
Jahresgaben 2016, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2015
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, US
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US
Jerwood Encounters: The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, Jerwood Visual Arts, London, UK
Empathy and Abstraction: Modernist Women in Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Katrin Plavcak and friends: History of Painting Revisited, Function Room, London, UK
Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London, UK
Present Conditional, Mier, California, US
2014
Imaginary Portraits: Prince Igor, Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York, US
I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
Nuite Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Gen X, La Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Repubblica di San Marino, San Marino, Italy
Folk Devil, David Zwirner, New York, US
Out of the House, Cranford Collection, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
2012
Buy My Bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US
In the disappearing mist, the gift of whispers, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK
Howling at the Moon: The Artist and the Night Sky from Old Masters to Today, Dickinson Fine Art, New York, US
2011
Party Animals, Royal/T, Los Angeles, US
Capitain Pamphile #3, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London, UK
Der Menschen Klee, Kunst Im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany
Printemps de Septembre—à Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Outrageous Fortune: Artists Remake the Tarot, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2010
TAG: From 3 to 45. New London Painting,Brown, London, UK
New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, California, US
Pamphile Show: A Pictorial novel in pieces, Jet, Berlin, Germany; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Projectspace 176, London, UK
Don Juan in the Village, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Sophie von Hellermann and Josh Smith, le Consortium, Dijon, France
Museum Dhonts-Dhaenens, Belgium, Belgium
2008
100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art,Art on the Underground, London, UK
The Alliance, Do-Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Seoul, Korea
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, US
Base-Progetti per l’Arte, Florence, Italy
Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
2007
Inky Toys Affinitas, Cerealart, Philadelphia, US
Looking Up, Galeria Mario Sequiera, Lisbon, Portugal
Secret Flix, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany
Der Ficker, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London, UK
White Columns 2007 Benefit Auction and Exhibition, White Columns, New York, US
Art For Opera, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, US
Looking Up, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
2006
Out of Line: Drawings from the Collections of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Ithaca, US
Heroines, Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera House, New York – US
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
Olympia (with hobbypopMUSEUM), Public, Paris, France
2005
Sophie von Hellermann & Josh Smith: Collaborations, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, US
The Hardest Thing To Draw Is A Kiss, Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
POST-MoDERN, Greene Naftali, New York, US
Clarke & McDevitt Present, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Mystica, hobbypopMUSEUM, Deitch Projects, New York, US
2004
Die Graue Kammer: Pohl, Gursky, hobbypopMUSEUM, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
The Drawing Project, Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
Mothers, Oh! Art, London, UK
2003
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
Art and Mountains, The Alpine Club, London, UK
Hydrophobia, Henry Peacock Gallery, London, UK
2002
Cher Peintre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
De La Peintre!..., Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Immediate Gesture, Lombard Fried Fine Arts, New York, US
Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
Artagents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
We all Love . . ., The Mission, London, UK
OBERWELTE, Stuttgart, Germany
Mediated Cooperation, collaboration with Johannes Maier
Electric Show, The Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK
2001
hobbypop MUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany; London, UK
Abbey Road, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, US
White Rabbit, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, US
Saatchi Gallery at Underwood Street, London, UK
Death to the Fascist Insect That Preys on the Life of the People, Anthony d’ Offay, London, UK
2000
Furore, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
Timothy Taylor, London, UK
Angel Island, hobbypopMUSEUM at Nicc, Antwerp, Belgium
1999
What you buy is your problem, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Trouble Spot Painting, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany
Spiel des Lebens, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998
hobbypop Terror, part of Glut exhibition at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Keep on riding, volstuemliche Malerei, Kunstforum, Rottweil, Germany
hobbypop publications, Niet die Kunstvlai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Die Serie, Galerie 102, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997
Hello Down There, Cologne, Germany
1996
Drive-in, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995
Coole Bilder, Cologne, Germany
COMMISSIONS
House of Matare Pavilion, Dusseldorf, Germany
Schloss Freienwalde, Bad Freienwalde, Germany
Murales, Fort Road Hotel, Margate, UK
EDUCATION
2001
MFA, Royal College of Art, London
1998
BFA, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
Founding member of hobbypopMUSEUM
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2007
Steep Rock Arts Association Resident, Washington, US