Sophie von Hellermann (*1975, Munich) studied at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art, London. She is Professor for Painting at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Hellermann is represented by Greene Naftali, New York, Pilar Corrias, London, Sies and Höke, Düsseldorf, and Wentrup, Berlin. Her most important exhibitions include: Biographies of Modernism: Collectors and their Works, Brücke-Museum, Berlin (2024); Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2024); Monumental, WENTRUP Gallery, Berlin (2024); Genius, Greene Naftali, New York (2023); Out of Time, Pilar Corrias, London (2022); Schloss Freienwalde, Bad Freienwalde (2022); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pilar Corrias, London (2020); Judgement Day, Chisenhale Gallery, London and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Sirens: Sophie von Hellermann and Anne Ryan, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK (2021); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2021); With a Capital P: Selections by Six Painters, Elmhurst Art Museum, Berlin (2019); Jahresgaben 2016, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2016); Empathy and Abstraction: Modernist Women in Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2015); ; Watercolor, Tate Britain, London (2011); Sophie von Hellermann and Josh Smith, le Consortium, Dijon (2009) and many more.
Her works are represented internationally in numerous private collections and in many museums, e.g. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg and Vermont, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Neuberger M.
