Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg (b. 1987 in Bonn) lives and works in Berlin. In her work, she combines aspects of painting and sculpture to create a linkage between objects and spaces. The stereotypical design of furnishings is something the artist rejects.
This is how Berlin-based curator Camila McHugh describes Dunkelberg’s art:
“Dunkelberg imitates recognizable forms – often domestic furnishings vaguely identifiable as bourgeois – and by brilliantly playing with materials she simultaneously reduces these forms to an elegant superficiality, initiating a subtle process of transformation.
In a series of stoves, for example, she reconstructs the indispensable accessories of every carefully restored early twentieth-century apartment and covers them with a synthetic fiber evoking fuzzy associations.…”
Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg: Sun City. Courtesy the artist and Efremidis. Photos: Marjorie Brunet Plaza
In the fall of 2022, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg spent a week in our residence to gain new impressions. In the summer of 2023, she returned for an extended residency.