Artworks

Sophie Esslinger (b.1996 in Linz) lives and works in Düsseldorf where she studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Thomas Scheibitz. She is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
If she were an emoji, Sophie Esslinger claims she would be a tear. Both round and sharp, tears defy a constant shape or structure. What defines them is their constant state of flux—they are in perpetual motion, always shifting, evolving, and transforming. Just like whirls, storms, or stars, they are not static objects or fixed forms as we imagine them; these optical phenomena, and the analogies between them create a wide spectrum of possible combinations and arrangements within a canvas, and, beyond it.