Sofia Hultén

(b. 1972)

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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