Bio

Sophie Reinhold’s (*1981, lives and works in Berlin) painting practice explores the unstable territory between image and material, memory and invention. Working with pigment and marble powder, she builds luminous, tactile surfaces that both reveal and obscure the imagery embedded within them. Her visual vocabulary draws freely from Greek mythology, religious iconography, popular culture, advertisements, icons and slogans rooted in her upbringing in East Berlin. Ancient myths and everyday images coexist without settling into a single narrative, allowing Reinhold to examine how cultural memory is formed, inherited and transformed. Her paintings are at once seductive and elusive: images seem to emerge from the surface only to dissolve back into it, resisting a fixed reading.

Sophie Reinhold studied at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin from 2008 to 2011, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2010 and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig from 2005 to 2008.

Solo and duo exhibitions include: Echo, Bortolami, New York City (2026); Waste of the Actual, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna, Hall of Mirrors, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City (2025); Bewusste Vernachlässigung ist auch keine Lösung, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, I STARTED A JOKE, Philipp Zollinger, Zurich (2024); Prediction of Forecast, Villa Atrata, Paris, Träum Weiter, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Basic Facility, CFAlive hosting SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Milan (2023); Mercedes Benz, Philipp Zollinger, Zurich, APORIA, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2022); MENACE, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (2021); Y, Philipp Zollinger, Zurich, Das kann das Leben kosten, CFA, Berlin (2020); Kein Witz, No Joke at Kunstverein Reutlingen, The Ballad of the Lost Hops, Sundogs, Paris (2019); Dear Hannes, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Why talk of love at a time like this?!, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich; What if everything was the same? Exchange of Vacuums, SOPHIE TAPPEINER, Vienna (2018).

Recently, Reinhold’s work has been included in group shows held at Kunsthalle Zürich (2023); Kunsthaus Graz, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Kunsthalle FRIART, Fribourg (2022), CFA, Berlin (2021), Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2019).

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