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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

Ratrack Project, Sophie Whettnall
Shifting Landscape G, Sophie Whettnall
Shifting Landscape D, Sophie Whettnall
Plaster landscape A, Sophie Whettnall
Invisible landscape K, Sophie Whettnall
Invisible landscape J, Sophie Whettnall
Invisible landscape I, Sophie Whettnall
Invisible landscape H, Sophie Whettnall
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Museum exhibitions

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France

Verbier, Switzerland

Verbier, Switzerland

Verbier, Switzerland

Verbier, Switzerland

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Sophie Whettnall -

Ghost trees, Gaasbeek Castle, Lennik, 2024


Videos

INTERVIEW

At Tank Museum, Shanghai

EXHIBITION

Sophie Whettnall's exhibition "Monuments Interieurs", Michel Rein, Paris, 2021


Press

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Publications

Sophie Whettnall (at) Work

Sophie Whettnall (at) Work

Publisher: Mercatorfonds

2019

À l'avant de l'image

À l'avant de l'image

Publisher:

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Portfolio