Biography

Biography/General: A comic-like stylised figure characterises the paintings of Sophie Ullrich. The outlines, mostly reduced to arms and hands, combine abstract pictorial elements and schematic backgrounds with accurately painted objects. In this humorous narrative, the neutral protagonist slips into a variety of roles and enables the appropriation of diverse objects and consumer products.

Referring to advertising aesthetics, Ullrich's works seem like the painterly satisfaction of desires and needs conveyed by the media. At the same time, her artistic approach describes a playful examination of the common genres of portrait and still life in times of potentially interchangeable identities in our selfie and social media society. Sophie Ullrich graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student of Eberhardt Havekost.
Education: 2009 High School graduation, Cologne
2011 Start of studies at the art academy Düsseldorf
2018 Graduation at the art academy Düsseldorf / academy Letter
Exhibitions: Chronicles, Galerie Droste, Berlin, 2022
heute kein Wlan ( soloshow ) , Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg, 2022 Project Mayhem, es365, Düsseldorf, 2022
Voliere, the cube, Münster, 2022
fundamental occurrences, Nosbaum&Reding Gallery, Brussels, 2022
stay away from glitter ( Einzelausstellung), the cabin, Danny First, Los Angeles, 2022

a glimpse of... , Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, 2021
daily history podcast (soloshow), Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg, 2021 Central Spark, Zero Fold, Cologne , 2021
Misa, Messe in St. Agnes, König Gallery, Berlin, 2021
bored Queen overlooking her fields (soloshow), Tube culture hall, Milano, 2021
lab III, Evelyn Drewes Gallery, Hamburg, 2021
Buddies, Reiter Gallery, Berlin, 2021

Salon der Gegenwart 10, Hamburg, 2020
art au centre #4, Liège, 2020
Groupshow, Nosbaum&Reding Gallery, Brussels, 2020 Genius Loci 8, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf , 2020
My tan is just fine, Gold+Beton, Cologne, 2020

Junger Westen , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2019
Just So Stories, Nosbaum und Reding Gallery, Luxembourg, 2019 Vorstellungsgespräche, Reiter Gallery, Leipzig, 2019
Fabric of art, Kaiser & Dicke, 701 e.V., Wuppertal, 2019 zweiklassen, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, 2019
Planet 58, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2019

Out of thin air, Amsterdam, 2018
Plié, class Havekost, Poleland, Düsseldorf, 2018
Mckinsey , SkyOffice, Düsseldorf, 2018
tote Ganoven (soloshow), Frappant e.V, Hamburg, 2018
Caput, Narren wachsen unbegossen (soloshow), Zero Fold, Cologne 2018

postPost, Gruppenausstellung, Halle 3, Düsseldorf, 2017
Proteinriegel, Im Goldenen, Düsseldorf, 2017
Neujahrversteigerung, Rathaus Düsseldorf, Rheinlust Agentur, 2017

Fernstehen, Matrose, Golestani Gallery, Düsseldorf, 2016 Reproduktives Arbeiten, class Havekost, Berlin, 2016

Silberrücken, class Havekost; Felix Ringel Gallery, Düsseldorf, 2015