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Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (2), 2024, Oil on Hahnemühle 300gsm paper, 275 x 125 cm. 49 1/4 x 108 1/4 in. Photo: © Jochen Wermann
Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (2), 2024, Oil on Hahnemühle 300gsm paper, 275 x 125 cm. 49 1/4 x 108 1/4 in. Photo: © Jochen Wermann
Elisabeth Sonneck’s painting and installation practice spans infinite forms, united by her rigorous commitment to the inherent potential of her materials and their relation to their environment. Her work is a dialogue between her everyday materials and the situational elements of space.

Site-specific installations have been an integral part of Sonneck's practice since 2006. Her paper installations are a subtle manipulation of the material, guiding it to behave in organic ways. Far from passive, these works are in a state of static dynamism. Upon her paper and canvas surfaces, Sonneck conducts complex coloristic experiments that underscore the concept of color as an unstable state. Nuanced color relations play out in a rhythmic repetition created by Sonneck’s consciously reduced painterly gestures.

Elisabeth Sonneck was born in Bünde, Germany, and lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been widely shown in museums, art institutions, galleries, artist-run spaces, and public spaces, and is included in private and public collections worldwide. Her recent solo shows include Galeria NAVE (Lisbon, PT), Spazio In Situ (Rome, IT), Spazienne (Milan, IT), Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst im Museum Wilhelm Morgner (Soest, DE), Kunstverein Neukölln (Berlin DE), IWE Art Museum (Kunming, CN), Brunnhofer Gallery (Linz, AT), Georgium Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie (Dessau, DE), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (DE), and Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst (Otterndorf, DE). Notable group shows include Prague City Gallery (CZ), Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE), Stiftung für Konzeptuelle Kunst (Soest, DE), Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (DE), Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven (DE), Austrian Museum of Papermaking Steyrermühl (AT), Boris Yeltsin Centre (Yekaterinburg, RU), New Bedford Art Museum (US), Georg Kolbe Museum (Berlin, DE), Guardini-Galerie (Berlin, DE), Vasarely Museum (Budapest, HU), Mies v.d. Rohe Haus, (Berlin, DE), Staatliches Museum Schwerin (DE), NGBK (Berlin, DE), and Sanssouci Castle (Potsdam, DE).
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Works
  • Elisabeth Sonneck, On the Blocks (1), 2024
    On the Blocks (1), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, On the Blocks (2), 2024
    On the Blocks (2), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, On the Blocks (3), 2024
    On the Blocks (3), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-7.4, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-7.4, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-7.5, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-7.5, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-7.6, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-7.6, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-7.7, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-7.7, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-8.1, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-8.1, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-8.2, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-8.2, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-8.3, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-8.3, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-8.4, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-8.4, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage (variable) 24-8.5, 2024
    Clipage (variable) 24-8.5, 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage 20-3.6 (variable), 2020
    Clipage 20-3.6 (variable), 2020
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Clipage 20-3.7 (variable), 2020
    Clipage 20-3.7 (variable), 2020
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Small Scrollpainting (1), 2024
    Small Scrollpainting (1), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Small Scrollpainting (2), 2024
    Small Scrollpainting (2), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (1), 2024
    Scrollpainting (1), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (2), 2024
    Scrollpainting (2), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (3), 2024
    Scrollpainting (3), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (4), 2024
    Scrollpainting (4), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (5), 2024
    Scrollpainting (5), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (6), 2024
    Scrollpainting (6), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (7), 2024
    Scrollpainting (7), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (8), 2024
    Scrollpainting (8), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (9), 2024
    Scrollpainting (9), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting (10), 2024
    Scrollpainting (10), 2024
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Maeander19 / 3, 2018
    Maeander19 / 3, 2018
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Maeander19 / 1, 2018
    Maeander19 / 1, 2018
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Dia Move3/ 3, 2019
    Dia Move3/ 3, 2019
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Five Strokes13/ 3, 2020
    Five Strokes13/ 3, 2020
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Five Strokes13/ 2, 2020
    Five Strokes13/ 2, 2020
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Five Strokes13/ 1, 2020
    Five Strokes13/ 1, 2020
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Scrollpainting Small Sister, 2018-19
    Scrollpainting Small Sister, 2018-19
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, Rollbild65.6 / scrollpainting65.6, 2019
    Rollbild65.6 / scrollpainting65.6, 2019
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, small scrollpainting, 2019
    small scrollpainting, 2019
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  • Elisabeth Sonneck, scrollpainting76 dual, 2019
    scrollpainting76 dual, 2019
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