Love’s Labour’s Lost

Sophie von Hellermann

Info: Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975) is a UK-based artist renowned for her light, lyrical style of painting. Her works are a mix of vivid colours and gradients that allude to seas and boats, as well as figures, birds, and flowers, creating a romantic, feminine aesthetic. However, upon closer inspection, her paintings contain deeper, more serious stories, exploring, for example, colonialism and its effects. Though Hellermann’s work is often light and playful, her paintings are never shallow. Rather than illustrating individual biographies, she finds a pictorial language that remains deliberately vague, allowing viewers to explore their own interpretations of the stories behind her art. Her upcoming exhibition at Sies + Höke will be the second solo presentation in the Düsseldorf gallery. (…) Opening on the occasion of DC Open.