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




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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

À l'avant de l'image
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