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 won the Young Belgian Painting prize in 1999. Her works has been exhibited at the 52th Venise Biennal (Italy) ; Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City) ; MAC'S, Site du Grand Hornu (Hornu) ; DOT. Project (London) ; Leal Rios Foundation (Barcelona) ; Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels) ; BOZAR (Brussels) ; Museu de Arte Moderna Aloisio Magalhães (Recife) ; CGAC (Santiago de Compostella) ; COAC (Barcelona) ; Vera Cortes Art Agency (Lisbon) ; Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna) ; L'Orangerie - Espace d'art contemporain (Bastogne) ; Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing).
Selected works
![My Roman Lovers, Academia Belgica - Roma, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_academia_belgica_my_roman_lovers_academia_belgica_roma_michel_rein_10628.jpeg)
![My Roman Lovers, Academia Belgica - Roma, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_academia_belgica_my_roman_lovers_academia_belgica_roma_michel_rein_10625.jpeg)
![Chinese Landscape, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_chinese_landscape_michel_rein_10345.jpg)
![Rain drawing, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_rain_drawing_michel_rein_10269.jpeg)
![Lost Landscape, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_lost_landscape_michel_rein_10266.jpg)
![Lost Landscape, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_lost_landscape_michel_rein_10024.jpg)
![Projected Landscape #2 (tryptich), Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_projected_landscape_2_tryptich_michel_rein_9420.jpg)
![Plaster Landscape #11, Sophie Whettnall](/cspdocs/artwork/images/sophie_whettnall_plaster_landscape_11_michel_rein_8990.jpg)
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Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
![STUK, Leuven, Belgium](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/photo_2024_02_19_18_06_14_8.jpg)
![STUK, Leuven, Belgium](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/sophie_whettnall.jpg)
![Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/s_whettnall_muse_769_e_du_pavillon_de_vendo_770_me_labo_photo_ville_d_aix_en_provence_2022_2_bis.jpg)
![Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/s_whettnall_muse_769_e_du_pavillon_de_vendo_770_me_labo_photo_ville_d_aix_en_provence_2022_8_bis.jpg)
![Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/sopiewettnall_2022_aixenprovence_2.jpg)
![Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence, France](/cspdocs/contact/portfolio/s_whettnall_muse_769_e_du_pavillon_de_vendo_770_me_labo_photo_ville_d_aix_en_provence_2022_10.jpg)
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Videos
INTERVIEW
At Tank Museum, Shanghai
EXHIBITION
Sophie Whettnall's exhibition "Monuments Interieurs", Michel Rein, Paris, 2021
Press
![Sophie Whettnall, le choc des contraires - La Libre Belgique](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/sophie_whettnall_le_choc_des_contraires_la_libre_belgique_michel_rein_414.jpg)
La Libre Belgique
Sophie Whettnall, le choc des contraires
2004
![Speeltuin voor volwassen - De Morgen](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/speeltuin_voor_volwassen_de_morgen_michel_rein_413.jpg)
De Morgen
Speeltuin voor volwassen
2004
![Whettnall o com gravar la llum - INDE](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/whettnall_o_com_gravar_la_llum_inde_michel_rein_412.jpg)
INDE
Whettnall o com gravar la llum
2002
![Triomphe de l'image à la Jeune Peinture - La Libre Belgique](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/triomphe_de_l_image_a_la_jeune_peinture_la_libre_belgique_michel_rein_411.jpg)
La Libre Belgique
Triomphe de l'image à la Jeune Peinture
1999
![Sophie Whettnall, Sédentaire s'abstenir - Art & Culture](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/sophie_whettnall_sedentaire_s_abstenir_art_culture_michel_rein_410.jpg)
Art & Culture
Sophie Whettnall, Sédentaire s'abstenir
1999
![Saint Nazaire. Le centre d'art contemporain lance sa nouvelle exposition -](/cspdocs/press/couvertures/saint_nazaire_le_centre_d_art_contemporain_lance_sa_nouvelle_exposition_michel_rein_987.jpg)
Saint Nazaire. Le centre d'art contemporain lance sa nouvelle exposition
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Publications
![Sophie Whettnall (at) Work](/cspdocs/editions/couvertures/sw_at_work.jpg)
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
2019
![À l'avant de l'image](/cspdocs/editions/couvertures/sw_alavantdelimagevg.jpg)
À l'avant de l'image
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