Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg

About

Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg's solo exhibition at Mehdi Chouakri shows new works created for this exhibition. The focus is on a group of works of curious teddies, big bubbles and waffles.

Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg is a sculptor, born in 1987 in Bonn, Germany. She studied at the HfBK, Hamburg University of Fine Arts and completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, UDK, where she studied with Manfred Pernice. Welding, forging, and lacquering the works herself, her labor-intensive practice involves industrial tools and production techniques. The playfulness of shapes and colors in addition to the influence of pop culture contradict the often heavy, cold materials (steel, aluminum, plastic). Interested in the push and pull relationship between the real and the abstract, furniture and other domestic objects and materials serve as an anchor upon which she can experiment. She lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam (2021). Furthermore, the artist has taken part in numerous group shows, including exhibitions at Institution Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon (2023), Modem, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (2022), Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2020), MdBK Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (2019), Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2018), Museum of Photography Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin (2017), HfBK Hugs x KHM Cologne, Hamburg (2016).