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
Gallery exhibitions
Museum exhibitions
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Videos
INTERVIEW
At Tank Museum, Shanghai
EXHIBITION
Sophie Whettnall's exhibition "Monuments Interieurs", Michel Rein, Paris, 2021
Press
Zigzag
Sophie Whettnall
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
L'Oeil
Les paysages d'âme de Sophie Whettnall
2019
La République de l'Art
Retour a la matiere
2019
L'Art Même
La Jeune Fille et la Mort
2019
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Publications
Sophie Whettnall (at) Work
Publisher: Mercatorfonds
2019
À l'avant de l'image
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