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21st March - 18th May 2013

NO-THINGS

Solo Exhibition at Galérie DIX9, 19, rue des Filles du Calvaire, 75003 Paris

For her first solo show in France, the artist presents an emblematic choice of works revealing her phenomenological perception of things. Artistic and scientific at once, Sophia Pompéry’s works invite us to reconsider the world that surrounds us. Should we believe in what we see? By playing with our visual perception, the artist traps the viewer without denying reality. By attaching all importance to small nothings, Pompéry’s work questions the viewers firm beliefs and reveals a poetic side in another truth.

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19th April, 19-22pm

Cheater's Charm

One-day solo-exhibition at NUN-Berlin, Isarstrasse 4, 12053 Berlin
www.nun-berlin.com 25th-28th April

Paris Photo L.A.

The inaugural United States edition of the renowned Paris fair, will be held at Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles. Please visit the booth of Galerie Dix9 (Paris) that showcases works of Marion Tampon-Lajarriette and Sophia Pompéry

losangeles.parisphoto.com

21th April, 3pm

ARTIST TALK + BOOK LAUNCH

Sophia Pompéry | ATÖLYE
Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de 23rd February - 24th April 2013
Sophia Pompéry

ATÖLYE

Solo Exhibition at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wilhelmstraße 15, 65185 Wiesbaden

Looking through a small hole in the wall can sometimes unsuspectedly open up a whole world which no longer lets go. Is it possible to capture the atmosphere of a place, its history and at the same time timelessness in a work of art?

The Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents with ATÖLYE the first institutional solo exhibition by Sophia Pompéry in Germany. Her work, moving through the media video, photography, object and installation, often captures diffuse moods and situations and plays with encrypted motifs, providing surprising punch lines after detailed reflection. Involving physical laws, she evokes unusual perspectives on the everyday and launches poetic processes. On the occasion of a stay grant in Istanbul 2012, Sophia Pompéry made a series of new works linked closely to the location of the experience and invite to reflect on space and time at the Kunstverein.

A publication accompanies the exhibition.
Supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds.

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7th - 10th February 2013

ART ROTTERDAM with Galérie Dix9

The International Art Fair of the Netherlands
LP2 in Las Palmas, Wilhelminakade 326, 3072 AR Rotterdam, The Netherlands

PROJECTIONS

Jan van de Pavert - Paul Andriesse (NL) | Stefan Constantinescu - Anita Beckers (DE) | Benoit Plateus - Albert Baronian (BE) | Erkka Nissinen - Ellen de Bruijne Projects (NL) | Sam Curtis - Division of Labour (UK) | Sophia Pompéry - Galerie Dix9 (FR) | Michael Joaquin Grey - Carroll Fletcher (UK) | Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - van Gelder (NL) | Meiro Koizumi - Annet Gelink Gallery (NL) | Josephine Meckseper - Reinhard Hauff (DE) | Johanna Billing - Hollybush Gardens (UK) | Christian Friedrich - Wilfried Lentz (NL) | Hans Op de Beeck - Ron Mandos (NL) | Carlos Irijalba - Galerie Sherin Najjar (DE) | Hajnal Németh - RAM (NL) | Harm Weistra - Joey Ramone (NL) | Keren Cytter - Schau Ort (CH) | Antonio Vega Macotela - Stigter van Doesburg (NL) | Navid Nuur - Martin van Zomeren (NL) |

Art Rotterdam Projections takes place in the free space LP2 in the Las Palmas building, on the opposite of the Cruise Terminal. Here you will find Projections in an worldwide unique, open and interactive setting. The 1200 m2 of LP2 will be for this occasion totally darkened and on large projection screens will 19 international galleries present a video work of an upcoming or more renowned artist.

Please visit Galerie Dix9 at booth 46 and my work at the Projection Section, display 19

12th January - 27th February 2013

OBJECTS OF MY AFFECTION

Group Show at Galerie R+M Fricke, Invalidenstraße 114, Berlin-Mitte
Opening, 13.1.2013, 13-16h 15th September - 26th October 2012

LANDSCHAFT z.B

Flavio de Marco | Friederike Klotz | Pauline Kraneis | Sophia Pompéry
Group Exhibition at Galerie R+M Fricke, Invalidenstraße 114, Berlin-Mitte
Opening, 14.9.2012, 7-9 p.m. 20th June - 26th August 2012
Sophia Pompéry

THE SILENT SHAPE OF THINGS

Solo Exhibition at ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul, Opening, 20.6.2012

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Friday, 20. July 2012, 18h

TONI AND ALBRECHT KUMM AWARD CEREMONY

Join us at the half-time of the exhibition VICE VERSA Miami 2011 - Berlin 2012 at Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin (15th June - 12th August) for the distribution ceremony of „Toni und Albrecht Kumm Award for the Promotion of Young Artists | Studio Award 2011“. On 19th October 2011 a Jury by Rüdiger Lange, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, preview berlin, Dr. Annelie Lütgens, Berlinische Galerie (Chairman of the Jury) and Christiane Meixner, Tagesspiegel awarded Sophia Pompéry the 10.000 Euro Prize, donated by Sigrid and Dr. Karl-Albrecht Kumm.

07.12 >> 09.12 2011

WUNDERBLOCK

Grimmuseum, Fichte Strasse 2, 10967 Berlin

Song-Ming Ang | Assaf Gruber | Felix & Mumford | Krystel Marois | Rita Medinas Faustino | Sophia Pompéry | Oswaldo Ruiz | Marinella Senatore | Santiago Taccetti

Wunderblock. Traces of process, document and memory is an exhibition exploring the palette of memory’s representation, through archiving, reconstruction, and documentation. Different questions are developed considering how memory can create common spaces for interpretation, how can it be activated through perception and how we define the process from perception to reception. (...)

28.11.2011 - 28.02.2012

ICH BIN EIN BERLINER

Schauhalle Dezer, Miami

CLARA BAHLSEN | ANTJE ENGELMANN | DANA ENGFER | CONSTANTIN HARTENSTEIN | CARLA MERCEDES HIHN | NADINE FECHT| CYRILL LACHAUER | SOPHIA POMPÉRY | JOVANA POPIC | GABRIEL ROSSELL SANTILLAN | KAYA BEHKALAM | SIMON MENNER | ACHIM RIETHMANN | JENS HAUSMANN | ISABELLE BORGES | AXEL TEICHMANN | BENJAMIN DEWOR | GERIT KOGLIN | LINA FALLER| XENIA FINK | JULIANE EIRICH | MENNO ADEN | Dieter Apelt | Martin Assig| Benjamin Dewor | Valerie Favre | Burkhard Held | Karl-Horst Hödicke | Rebecca Horn | Leiko Ikemura | Robert Lucander | Helmut Middendorf | Christiane Möbus | Wolfgang Petrick | Günter Scharein | Katharina Sieverding

29.10 - 1.9.2012

BERLIN 2000-2011 | PLAYING AMONG THE RUINS

MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Nevin Aladağ | John Bock | Phil Collins | Omer Fast | Fuji Re-United (Simon Fujiwara & Kan Fujiwara) | Isa Genzken | Katharina Grosse | Alicja Kwade | Simon Dybbroe Møller | Kirstine Roepstorff | Anri Sala | Matthias Wermke & Mischa Leinkauf | Ming Wong | Haegue Yang Saâdane Afif | Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maed | Christian Jankowski | Institute for Spatial Experiments

20.10.2011

STIPENDIATEN 2010-2012

Einladung zum Atelierbesuch
Freundeskreis der Universität der Künste Berlin
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft e.V.

20. Oktober 2011, 18:30h-21:30h

Atelieretage Oberschöneweide
Wilhelminenhofstr. 83-85, Haus 59, 3. Etage
12459 Berlin

15.10. - 10.11.2011

Sophia Pompéry | NOTHING BUT A TRANSIENT LIGHT

Solo-Exhibition at Wozownia Gallery, Torun, Poland

Opening: 14.10.2011 at 18h

The marvel of Sophia Pompéry’s works results from her interest in physical and optical phenomena. In many ways her video works come into a dialog with painting, its condition and tradition of imaging. They are characterised by a fascinating picturesque quality and a subtly arranged visual side, evoking a secret and oneiric atmosphere, guiding the viewer into a state of concentration close to meditation or even hypnotic enchantment. They are exquisite, self-contained, calm, focusing on a selected issue and perfectly arranged – they strike with simplicity of visual means resulting in the disclosure of multi-thread, complex meanings oscillating between physical and artistic reality.
Pompéry takes delight in exploring unconventional carriers for images, such as water, surface of a soap bubble or a glass vessel. Views created on such carriers are, however, evasive, perishable and not fully discernible. Similarly as indiscernible and gaze-evading is the image of the artist herself, caught in those fascinating and disturbing projections. (Marta Smolińska)

a catalogue will be released

22.9 - open end

IDEAS ARE MOTION - ZAGREB
EXHIBITION DISAPPEARING IN PUBLIC SPACE

Organisation: Institut für Raumexperimente (Eric Ellingsen, Sophia Pompéry, Christina Werner) in collaboration with Culture of Change, SC Gallery (Karla Pudar) and Multimedijalni Institut, MAMA (Peter Milat)

VIKTOR BEDÖ | JULIUS VON BISMARCK | JULIAN CHARRIÈRE | ERIC ELLINGSEN | ANDREAS GREINER | MARKUS HOFFMANN | FELIX KIESSLING | FABIAN KNECHT | GABRIELLE MAINGUY | SOPHIA POMPÉRY | CHRISTINA WERNER | KIRSTEN WEISS

The Poster as an Experiment in Travel is prismatically structured to reflect the making of a class excursion (a road trip). Every place is a mangle of spatial relationships involving motions and emotions of scale, speed, perception, attention span, directionality, and distance. Posters are vehicles of urban communication which materialize these spatial relationships. Each poster is as different as each participant. Some posters are sketches of ideas, some finished statements, others dreams, or personal distortions. They are autonomous projects soon to be realized, parts realized in other places, and pitches for projects to come. In a real way, each poster is a still from a moving stream. (Eric Ellingsen)

>> please have a look at our online documentation:

http://raumexperimente.net/ideas-are-motion-zagreb

31.8. – 3.9.2011

THE END OF THE DREAM

Eröffnung: Mi, 31.8.2011 18 - 22h, Do/Fr 14 – 19h, Sa 16 - 21h
MicaMoca project berlin e.V. Lindower Str. 22, 13347 Berlin

Robert Barta | Jérémie Bennequin | Luk Berghe | Eberhard Bosslet | Marcel Bühler | Matthew Burbidge | Anton Burdakov | Youngjoo Cho | Sébastien Delvaux | Nikolaus Eberstaller | Nezaket Ekici | Megumi Fukuda | Stephanie Gerner | Elmar Hess | Maja Josifovic | Peter Kees | Tessa Knapp | Steve Lambert | Via Lewandowsky | Ari Benjamin Meyers | Jenny Michel | Greg Murr | Hajnal Németh | Sophia Pompéry | Jovana Popic | Joseph Ramirez | Raha Rastifard | Karen Scheper | Johanna Thompson | Mehran Tizkar | André Wagner | Hans Winkler | Veronika Witte | Seoung Won Won | Michael Zheng

Kuratorin: Nicole Loeser
21.06.2011, 11.00h

GEGENWARTSKUNST IN BERLIN

Studie des Instituts für Strategieentwicklung zur Situation der KünstlerInnen in Berlin
Präsentation und Diskussion der Ergebnisse in C|O Berlin, Oranienburger Straße 35/36, 10117 Berlin

Der Schlüssel zur Gegenwartskunst in Berlin sind die Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die diese Stadt zu einem der weltweit wichtigsten Produktionsstandorte für Gegenwartskunst machen. Wie sehen Berliner Künstlerinnen und Künstler ihre Situation? Wie bewerten sie städtische und kulturpolitische Entwicklungen? Das Institut für Strategieentwicklung (IFSE) hat diese Fragen in einer umfassenden Studie untersucht. C/O Berlin lädt Sie herzlich ein zur Präsentation und Diskussion. Eintritt frei.

Podium: Prof. Monika Grütters, MdB | Sophia Pompéry, Künstlerin | Bernhard Kotowsky, bbk Berlin | Hergen Wöbken, IFSE
Moderation: Claudia Wahjudi, Zitty

20.März - 1.Mai 2011

...SO SCHÖN?

Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden

Awst & Walther / Fides Becker / Il-Jin Atem Choi & Becker-Schmitz / Anita Di Bianco / Zilvinas Kempinas / Ján Mančuška / Neil McNally / Christine Mederer / Emilie Pitoiset / Sophia Pompéry / Markus Walenzyk

Was macht das Poetische in der zeitgenössischen Kunst aus? Immer wieder wird Kunstwerken von Kuratoren, Kritikern oder Künstlern selbst die Qualität des Poetischen zugesprochen. Die metaphorische Verwendung des Begriffs außerhalb der Dichtung folgt einer langen Tradition. Die Gruppenausstellung versucht das Poetische greifbar zu machen und präsentiert 13 Künstler, die in den Medien Videokunst, Installation, Performance, Malerei und Fotografie arbeiten. Der Titel zielt auf die Frage, ob der Begriff des Poetischen eine Lücke füllt, den der moderne Abschied von der ursprünglichen ästhetischen Zentralkategorie des Schönen im Sprechen über Kunst aufgerissen hat und inwieweit das Poetische über das „so Schöne“ hinausgeht.

Kuratiert von Sara Stehr und Elke Gruhn

12. März - 7.Juni

Ausstellung 3

Art Junction Berlin, GIZ Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit 20.Januar - 10.April

WITHOUT DESTINATION

Institut für Raumexperimente im Reykjavik Art Museum 4.September - 25.Oktober 2010

HAUSBESUCHE

Kunstverein Kassel 8.Mai 2010 - 19.September 2010

STARTER

ARTER, New Museum for Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey, cat.

30.April - 19.Juni 2010

Sophia Pompéry | STILL

Solo Exhibition at Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin, Vernissage, 30.4. 18.00h

16. Dezember 2009 - 10. Januar 2010

Potenciális izék - Dinge und Undinge mit Anna Lénard

Magyar Mühely Galéria, Budapest, H , Eröffnung am 16.12, 18.00h

4. Dezember 2009 - 10. Januar 2010

participating in Karin Sander, Zeigen

, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, cat.
28.Juni - 8.August 2009

"Schönes Wetter heute, n'est-ce pas, Henning?"

Kurator: René Block
Kunstforeningen 44 Moen, DK

Lene Adler Petersen | Halil Altindere | Peter Anders | Ay-O | Joseph Beuys | Claus Böhmler | George Brecht | KP Brehmer | Marcel Broodthaers | John Cage | Giuseppe Chiari | Henning Christiansen | Maria Eichhorn | Robert Filliou | Terry Fox | Ludwig Gosewitz | Asta Gröting | Erik Hagens | Geoffrey Hendricks | Joe Jones | Till Junkel | Allan Kaprow | Milan Knizak | Alison Knowles | Hans Peter Kuhn | Arthur Koepcke | Inge Mahn | Olaf Metzel | Ursula Munch-Petersen | Bjoern Noergaard | Nam June Paik | Palermo | Sigmar Polke | Sophia Pompéry | Ursula Reuter Christiansen | Dieter Roth | Gerhard Rühm | Reiner Ruthenbeck | Carlos Santos | Sakis | Thomas Schmit | Superflex | Endre Tot | Ben Vautier | Wolf Vostell | Emmett Williams