Sophie Whettnall
Biography
Born in 1973, lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).
Sophie Whettnall is a multidisciplinary artist using video, performance, drawing and painting. Her works oscillate between elegance, sensuality and energy.
Since the nineties, the work of Sophie Whettnall offers a reflection on the forces that define our relationship to the world around us, by materializing and documenting them.
Sophie Whettnall focuses on light and analyses its presence and zones of absence and passage. The aesthetic pieces of the artist prove simultaneously sensitive and powerful, resting on a dialectic tension and attempt to instigate a relation between contradicting concepts and perceptions: between softness and sensuousness, yin and yang, women and men. Her work also contributes to a form of autobiographical project.
Sophie Whettnall is the winner of the Belgian Art Prize in 1999 her work has been shown at the 52nd Venice Biennale MAC'S Grand-Hornu BOZAR and La Centrale (Brussels) the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City) the Uffizi Gallery (Florence) CGAC (Santiago de Compostela) Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (Brazil) COAC (Barcelona) Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna) STUK (Leuven) Chiostri di San Pietro and Fondazione Palazzo Magnani (Reggio Emilia) as well as TANK (Shanghai, Wiels selection).
Her works are part of numerous public and private collections in Belgium and internationally.
Selected works
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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik
Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik
Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
Verbier, Switzerland
Verbier, Switzerland
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Videos
PERFORMANCE
Performance / Ghost Trees, Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik, 2024
EXHIBITION
Performance, Into the Mind, project Art & Well-Being, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
INTERVIEW
At Tank Museum, Shanghai
EXHIBITION
Sophie Whettnall's exhibition "Monuments Interieurs", Michel Rein, Paris, 2021
Press
Gen de Art
Sophie Whettnall: Tracing the Invisible
2025
Meer
InVisible
2025
Zigzag
Sophie Whettnall
2024
Verbier 3-D Foundation
Sophie Whettnall, RATRACK
2024
Mu in the city
Familles, je vous filme
2023
Ouest france
Saint-Nazaire.Le centre d'art contemporain lance sa nouvelle exposition
2022
La Libre Belgique
Une fresque en resonnance avec Bozar
2021
Artnet news
Sophie Whettnall
2020
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Publications
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
2019
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