Sophia Pompéry

Born in 1984 in Berlin, Sophia Pompéry studied contemporary sculpture at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin under the Professorship of Karin Sander and Eran Schaerf and as “Meisterschülerin” which was followed by studies at the Institute for Spatial Experiments at UdK (Berlin University of the Arts), under the direction of Olafur Elliason. Grants and awards include the recent 2015 Jacqueline-Diffring Prize and exhibitions include the Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, MARTa Herford, Germany, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin, Kunstverein Kassel and Nassauischen Kunstverein, Wiesbaden. Her work is held in collections including Kunstmuseum Bonn, René Block and ARTER Space for Art, Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul.

Her subtle and ambiguous works have their origin in scientific observations. Pompéry explores this comprehensively from a perceptual perspective: with a penchant for the absurd she illustrates the unreliability, ambivalence and conundrum of perception. Media reversal and transformation are important aspects in Pompéry’s minimalist and refined works, which astutely bridge the fields of art, philosophy and physics. Almost incidentally and with a unique formality, Pompéry utilises everyday phenomena to illuminate great philosophical questions.

Submitted by Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise