Born 1972 in Stockholm
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2005 Sheffield Hallam University
Teaching
2017 /2018 interim professor for sculpture at The Braunschweig University of Art, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Super Call Me Fragile Ego, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2019
Undead, undead, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
focus: Sofia Hultén, Galerie Nordenhake focus, Stockholm, Sweden
Chinese Whispers #4, Messen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Sofia Hultén: Unstable Fakers of Change in Self, KINDL, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin, Germany
Coulda Woulda Shoulda, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
Casual Causal, angels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Here’s the Answer, What’s the Question?, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2017
Here’s the Answer, What’s the Question?, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2016
Entropy High, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2015
When Lines Are Time, Espai13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Truckin’, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2014
Matter is Plastic in the Face of Mind, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
I Used To, I Still Do, But I Used To, Too, RaebervonStenglin, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
How Did It Get So Late So Soon, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
If You Never did You Should, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2012
Statik Elastik, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
One in Ten, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
No No NoNo No No, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Pressure Drop, Raeber von Stenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
2010
Past Particles, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Ninety-Nine Problems, Meessendeclerq, Brussels, Belgium
Test/Tat, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen, Germany
Sofia Hultén (With Wolfgang Plöger), Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2009
Back to Back, Konrad Fischer Oben, Berlin, Germany
Drawn Onward, Perrot’s Folly, Ikon Gallery Offsite, UK
2008
Mutual Annihilation, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Auflösung, Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin, Germany
Documentation, HIAP, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2007
Familiars, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
You Do Voodoo You Do, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Preparations For Uncertain Doom, Galerie Adler Videospace, New York, USA
2006
Possessions, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Events With Unknown Outcome, Letzte Überprüfung, Berlin, Germany
2005
Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Capri, Berlin, Germany (with Lucy Powell)
loth ringer dreizehn, Munich, Germany (with Bettina Carl)
Special Projects PS1, New York, USA
2002
Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany
2001
Luna International Berlin, Germany
Leergut Abholen, Rampe003, Berlin, Germany (with Sybil Kohl, Adalgisa Campos)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Tiefenschärfe. Zwischen Lust, List und Schrecken, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
Mythos Handwerk at Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
2021
COSE NATURALI – Das Wesen der Dinge/the nature of things, Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
Ich wollte nie eine Konstruktivistin sein! Verschollene Collagen von Hannah Höch, Kunstverein Pforzheim im Reuchlinhaus, Germany
Lost Weekend, Yvon Lambert, Paris, & Galerie Allen, Paris, France
Sound and Silence, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
LandLiebe – Kunst und Landwirtschaft, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
2020
Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany
2019
Nordic Contemporary Art Collection, Volvo Studio Stockholm, Sweden
Blue is the Color of your Eyes – On Materiality and Abstraction in the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
Blickachsen 12 – Skulpturen in Bad Homburg und Frankfurt RheinMain, Stiftung Blickachsen, Bad Homburg, Germany
2018
The Flâneur – From Impressionsim to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Play It Again – The Art of Remaking, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Boras International Sculpture Biennial 2018, Sweden
Northern Exposure: Contemporary Nordic Arts Revealed, Nordic Museum Seattle, USA
Germany Is Not An Island – Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Acquisitions 2012-2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2017
A throw of the dice will never abolish chance, La Borie, Solignac, France
Revolution in red, yellow and blue – Gerrit Rietveld and contemporary art, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Mit den Händen zu greifen und doch nicht zu fassen, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Photography Out of Germany, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
Floating World (video installation) within Art Bahrain Across Borders (ArtBAB) Manama, at the Bahrain International Exhibition & Convention Center, Manama, Bahrain
2016
Samhällsmaskinen, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Echtzeit – Die Kunst der Langsamkeit, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Secret Life of Images, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
how to charm, QBox Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015
Last Sighting, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Appearance & Essence, Timco Halls, Timisoara, Romania (as part of Timisoara Art Encounters)
Second Nature, Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (with Julian Fickler and Sara Sizer)
Anarchic sexual desires of plain unmarried schoolteachers, Project/Number, London, UK
Distant Moods on a Blue Evening, Cesis Art Festival, Cesis, Latvia
Momentum – 8th Nordic Biennal of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Fusion, Galerie Kunst x Kunz +, Munich, Germany
Romantic Conceptualism, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Adam, Eve and the Devil, Marres House for Conceptual Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands
5 years – a group show, RaeberVonStenglin, Zürich, Switzerland
Gathered Fates – curated by Ignasi Aballí, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
Bricologie, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Birmingham Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2014
I’m Still Here, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Vom Dasein und Sosein, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a/M, Germany
côté intérieur, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck, Austria
Almost Something, Not Quite Nothing, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, USA
2013
Vom Eigensinn der Dinge, Kai 10, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rhythm in it, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Sweet Bitter Symphony, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2012
How To Make, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden Germany
Landscapeism, Kunstverein Glückstadt, Glückstadt, Germany
Reyjkjavik Arts Festival, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Remainder, Hilary Crisp Gallery, London, UK
Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China
2011
KölnSkulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Germany
‘O’, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
(Re)Constructed, Kunsthalle Glarus, Switzerland
Informellnature, Galerie Sabine Knust, München, Berlin, Germany
The Moving Object, Essays and Observations, Berlin, Germany
2010
The Moderna Exhibition, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
A Walk Around the Block, La Ferme Du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Schöner Wohnen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Documents 10, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Objects are like they appear, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
Anticipation Time, Museums of Bat Yam, Israel
Fische Hinterlassen Keine Spüren, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2009
Table des Matieres, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
Collaboration, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Known Unknowns, Loop Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Gestern oder im 2. Stock, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Pop-Up!, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
Der Innere Blick – Das Interieur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Nautilus Städtische, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
Haus Kaputt Haus Heile, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
Time, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Betwixt: Sofia Hultén between Kendell Geers, Gabriel Orozco, Jonathan Monk, Cosima Von Bonin, Paul Chan and Mona Hatoum, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Driller Killer Forgotten, Bar Project / Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Weisses Lächeln, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
Home Alone, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Freunde und Bekannte, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany
If you give me the mountain I will ask for the sea, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mimétisme, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Régard Camera, Centre D’Art de la Ferme du Buisson, France
Checkpoint Berlin, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
100 Tage = 100 Videos GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Die Stadt Von Morgen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Space Invasion, Wien, Austria
Um-Kehrungen, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
Between Reality and Fairytales, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
State of Work, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
We Can’t Be Stopped, MAC/VAL, Musée du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Highlights, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany
Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Homework, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Abgebrannt, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Schein und Abgrund, P//AKT Amsterdam. The Netherlands
Eigenheim, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
L’Apparence et l’Abime, Immanence, Paris, France
Berlin :Tendenzen, Instituto de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Vorläufige Durchsuchung, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2005
Things We Know Test Site – Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Ergonomicon, Consolidated Works, Seattle, USA
Re:Search, Universität der Künste Berlin, berlin, Germany
Up and Coming Video Screening #1, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
Erste Haut, Galerie gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
2004
BLICK, New Nordic Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
My Blood is Electric, Spitz Gallery, London, UK
We’re not here to give you pleasure, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France
Me, Myself and I, Schmidt Center Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Trendwände, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
L´Attitude Des Autres, s-m-p, Marseille, France
9 Triennale, Fellbach Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg. Switzerland
Social Ease, Luft Space, Toronto, Canada
Architecture, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Fast Umsonst, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Hansi Hinterseer, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
2003
Losing It, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Out to Grass, Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany
Escapology, G39, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Überlebensstrategien für Untrainierte Kunst, Medienzentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Office, The Photographers´ Gallery, London, UK
2002
Videoidyll, Staatsbank, Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Files, De Chiara Gallery, New York, USA
Sound G7, Berlin, Germany
Here and Now, Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany
Galerija-Kneipe, Warschau, Poland
We´re not here to give you pleasure, Proto Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Fricties Vooruit Center, Ghent (Performance), Belgium
We´re not here to give you pleasure, G39, Cardiff, Wales, UK
La Nuit Art Vidéo, Le Maillon-Théâtre, Strasbourg, France
2001
Not at Home, Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
White Collar, Temporary Site, Zimmer Str, Berlin, Germany
We´re not here to give you pleasure, rraum 02, Frankfurt, Germany
Art works:consulting, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Selected Bibliography
2012
Sofia Hultén at Langen Foundation, text by Kito Nedo, frieze online
2011
Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris – Sofia Hultén, text by John Peter Nilsson, Moderna Museet Stockholm
Sofia Hultén – Individual Features Removed, by N. Heinrich, Münster, Germany
Sofia Hultén at RaebervonStenglin, text by Quinn Latimer, art agenda
2009
Sofia Hultén, 12 Works, essays by Stefanie Böttcher, Helen Legg and Richard Julin, Künstlerhaus Bremen / Ikon Gallery Birmingham
2008
Sofia Hultén, text by Rainer Bessling, artist Kunstmagazin
2006
Sofia Hultén – Points in a Room Condensing, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2004
Sofia Hultén, text by Natalie de Ligt, Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
2003
Sofia Hultén, by B. Effinger, Goldrausch-Künstlerinnenprojekt Art IT, Goldrausch-Frauennetzwerk Berlin e.V.
Scholarships and Awards
2011
Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris
2009
Stiftung Kunstfonds One Year Scholarship
2008
Helsinki International Artists Programme, Finland
2007
IASPIS Studio Scholarship, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Studio Scholarship Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
Senate One Year Work Scholarship Berlin, Germany
2003
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany
2001
Künstlerförderung Berlin, Germany
1998
DAAD One Year Scholarship, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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