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Sophie von Hellermann | Get Your Head Around It: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Upcoming exhibition
8 October 2025 - 29 March 2026
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Sophie von Hellermann | Get Your Head Around It, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975, Munich) has created an extensive new work on canvas for the 62-metre vitrine on the south-west wall of the Kunsthalle’s building. Von Hellermann’s paintings quote fact and fiction, drawing diversely from history and culture to develop expansive, narrative compositions. Using broad-brushes to apply acrylic and raw pigment on unprimed canvas, her images are imbued with a luminosity and a sense of movement and weightlessness that contributes to their fleeting, dream-like or cinematic quality. 

 

The title, Get Your Head Around It pays tribute to the writer, cybernetician, language theorist and musician Oswald Wiener (b. 1935, Vienna; d. 2021, Steiermark) with whom von Hellermann studied Erkenntnistheorie (epistemology) while at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1990s. The work is inspired by a conversation between the artist and her tutor, referring to Wiener’s theory that the mind functions like a machine processing mental imagery in programmed sequences that guide the movement of ‘signs’ or information.

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  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It At Nighttime Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Markus W Rg Tter
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Detail In Daylight 1 2 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Markus W Rg Tter
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Detail 2 4 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Finbar Ward
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Detail 1 4 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Finbar Ward
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Detail In Daylight 2 2 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Markus W Rg Tter
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Detail 3 4 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Finbar Ward
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It In Daylight Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Markus W Rg Tter
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Work In Progress 2 2 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Finbar Ward
  • Sophie Von Hellermann Get Your Head Around It Work In Progress 1 2 Kunsthalle Wien 2025 Courtesy The Artist Photo Finbar Ward

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