Sophia Pompéry

Sophia Pompéry (*1984, Berlin) studied sculpture with Karin Sander and Antje Majewski at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin before becoming a student of Olafur Eliasson at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Scholarships have taken her to St. Petersburg, Istanbul, the Museum Kunst der Westküste (Föhr, GER) and most recently to Villa Serpentara near Rome as a fellow of the Junge Akademie der Künste. She has received the Mart Stam Award, the Jaqueline Diffring Prize and the working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. Her work has also been shown at institutions such as Arter Istanbul, the Stedelijk Museum's Hertogenbosch, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Haus der Kunst Munich, Neue Nationalgalerie, the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and the Akademie der Künste Berlin.