Portfolio
SOPHIA DOMAGALA
Sophia Domagala creates the position of abstract art in the 21st century. Lines and stripes as well as appropriations of texts, images and materials serve the artist as a means of depicting thought and action processes and generating emotional and social resonances.
Sophia Domagala (1981*) lives and works
in Berlin.
Lines over White, 2022 (triptych)
Acrylic and pants on canvas and wood
175 × 272 × 2 cm / 68.8 × 107 × 0.8
(open) 175 × 136 × 4,5 cm / 68.8 × 53.5 (closed)
2024 MERISTIME, curated by felix becker, GALERIE HEIKE STRELOW, Frankfurt a.m.
2023 Winter Salon, HaverkampfLeistenschneider, Galerie, Berlin
2023 Places and Events, curated by Stefka Tsaneva, König Galerie, Berlin
2023 LIBERTE (ETRE-BELLE), Mountains, Berlin, solo
2023 sHoddy / schäbig, curated by ANDY MARSH, Stallmann, BERLIN
2023 HEAVEN AND HELL, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, solo
2022 In Line With, Stallmann, Berlin
2022 Apples and Lines, Stella, Berlin
2021 Beggars, Mountains, Berlin, DE, solo
2021 Schwarze Streifen auf Blau, as part of Wie baut man Brücken über
unruhiges Wasser?, curated by East of Elsewhere, Rostock, solo
2021 Piece of Pen II, Rundgaenger by Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt a.M.
2021 Weltaneignung, with Lotta Bartoschewski, ad/ad, Hannover
2020 Assisted Survival, Mountains, Berlin
2020 Stupidity Is Not Home (with Ali Altin), SP2, Berlin
2019 The mirror is my mother, Studio Picknick, Berlin, solo
2019 It was all a Dream, curated by Laura Helena Wurth,
Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
- 2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium
- 2021 INITIAL Sonderstipendium Akademie der Künste
- 2017 Preis der Nationalgalerie (Longlist)
- 2014 Nominierung Berlin Art Prize (Honorable mention)
- 2014 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT
- 2011 Artist in Residency, MetroArts, Brisbane, AU
Recent Exhibitions
Selected Work
Lines on a woman, 2025
Acrylic, magazine cut-out on canvas,
30 x 40 cm
Lines on a couple with a dog, 2025
Acrylic, magazine cut-out on canvas,
30 x 24 cm
Lines on brown, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 60,5 cm
Lines on blue, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 55 cm
Lines on green, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 60 cm
No title, 2024, paper, wax pen, permanent marker, 35,5 x 30 cm
Installation views, BEGGARS at Mountains Gallery, Berlin, 2021
No title, 2022, ink, water colour on paper, 29,9 x 42 cm
No title, 2022, ink, water colour on paper, 42 x 29,9 cm
No title, 2022, ink, water colour on paper, 42 x 29,9 cm
Lines on two woman, 2025, Acrylic, book cut-out on canvas, 30 x 24 cm
Installation views, HEAVEN AND HELL, Marburger Kunstverein, 2023
Lines over Newton_122, 2023 – Permanent marker on book page, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Lines over Newton_100, 2023 – Permanent marker on book page, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Lines over Newton_76, 2023 – Permanent marker on book page 26,5 x 19,5 cm
Lines over Newton_84, 2023 – Permanent marker on book page, 26,5 x 19,5 cm
CML: Your paintigs, Sophia, have been marked by the line, or line making for a while: What is it that particulary fascinates you about grid-making and the line as a characteristic mark or motif?
SD: It shapes things. Everything starts with a lines or goes back to it once untangled, like handwriting. The lines surrounds everything. There is an important book by Kandinsky, Punkt und Linie zur Fläche [1926]. I bought it in Paris years ago. The line, he writes, is one of the very elementary things, which make a painting a painting. This idea stayed with me. So, even if in ten years I will be painting faces - they will still be lines.
Lines on postcard, 2025, Acrylic, permanent marker, ost card on paper, 18 x 24 cm
Lines on a car, 2025,
Acrylic, magazine cut-out on canvas,
30 x 24 cm
Lines on creamy yellow, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 60,5 cm
Lines on pissy yellow, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 62,5 x 80 cm
Light System 04_22, 2022
Acrylic and flowers on canvas, nettle
92 x 52 x 5.5 cm
Light System 01_22, 2022, Acrylic on denim, 92 x 52 x 5,5 cm
Light System 02_22, 2022
Acrylic and newspaper cut outs, canvas,
92 x 52 x 5.5 cm
Light System 05_22, 2022
Acrylic on canvas,
92 x 52 x 5.5 cm
Installation views, LIBERTE (etre-belle) at Mountains Gallery, Berlin 2023/24
Lines over girl with a hat, 2024, Acrylic, magazine cut-out, canvas, 20 x 23 cm
The Red Frame, 2023
Acrylic, linen, nettle, nylon thread
82 × 74 × 1,3 cm / 32.2 x 29.1 x 0.5
Kuss, 2023
Coloured pencil, linen, nettle, nylon thread, paper, textile fabric
92 × 75 × 1,7 cm / 36.2 x 29.5 x 0.6 in Unique