Sophia Mainka

Habit Loss I

Metall (laser cut), fabric, wood, leather imitate, plastics, ceramics (glazed), video (8.59min, loop, 4K, without sound)

160 x 105 x 59 cm

2023

€ 8.500,00

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Sophia Mainka

Sophia Mainka's works address philosophical discourses and current social currents as well as future trends. She works with a variety of materials and media, which she combines in space-filling installations that can be walked on. Materiality, surface and design are thereby both an analysis of a middle-class aesthetic and an expression of a sculptural exploration of sculpture. In her works, the artist explores the complex relationship between people, things and other forms of life. 

1990

born in Munich, lives and works between Paris and Munich

2012-2020

Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Alexandra Bircken and Stephan Huber (graduated as „Meisterschülerin“)

2012-2019

Workshops and studio visits with Manfred Pernice, Mariechen von Danz, Melanie Bonajo, Justin Liebermann, Nora Schulz and Andreas, Schmitten, among others

2011-2012

Studies of Philosophy and Literature at the LMU Munich, Germany

since 2022

artistic collaborator of Alexandra Bircken at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany

2022

Cité international des Arts Paris residency scholarship

Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts´Residency scholarship, Kunstverein Ebersberg, Germany

2021

Kickstarter Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Germany

Working Scholarship /Special Support Programme, Neustart Kultur, Bonn Art Fund Foundation, Germany

Neue Kunst, Neue Wege, Working Scholarship, Bayern, Germany

Catalogue funding‘ by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art

Catalogue funding by the LFA-Förderbank

Project funding by the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation

Studio scholarship ARMIRA, Europa Platz

until 2020

Debutant Award of the Gallery of Artists Munich, Germany

Debutant Award of the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation

Studio sponsorship of the City of Munich, Germany

PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE by GALERIE VON&VON, Nürnberg, Germany

Leonard and Ida Wolf Memorial Award of the City of Munich, Germany

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