Biography
Member: Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. / IKG International Artists Committee, VG Bild-Kunst
Education
1993
MA, Art History, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
1986
BFA, The Cooper Union College for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, USA
1979 – 1980
New York University, New York, NY, USA
Lectures / Panel Discussions / Interviews etc.
2023
Contributing writer to: Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Centre, Orońsko PL, Spring Issue, The Imagination of the Public and Public Art
Board member, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, GER
Jury member, exhibitions program, apex-art, New York, https://apexart.org
Lecture in the series: Look And Listen, Freie Kunstakademie, Mannheim, GER
2022
Contributing writer to: Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Centre, Orońsko, PL,
Fall Issue, The Critical Zone of Art and Everything Else
Jury member, STIFTUNG KUNSTFONDS, Bonn, GER
Project support for the solo exhibition Future Perfect, 'Neustart Kultur,
Innovative Projects, Modul C', funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Artist Talk with Nadine Hahn, art historian and archivist, Frankfurt a. M.
Exhibition Future Perfect at Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden, GER
Coordinator of the IKG (International Artists Forum) annual meeting in Wiesbaden and of the IKG Symposium on Eastern European Art, Reciprocal Tension at Museum Wiesbaden
Contributing writer to: Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Centre, Orońsko, PL, Spring Issue, Utopia for daily Use and contemporary art
2021
Contributing writer to: Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL, Spring Issue, Silvia Beck: Docu-Fiction
Project Support for the exhibition Juxtaposition, Cultural Office of The City of Wiesbaden
2020
Contributing writer: The Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL, Article, Jimmie Durham: Citizen of the World
Project assistance at the exhibitions: Wer im Glashaus sitzt soll nicht mit Steinen werfen, in the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko and in the Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (Kunsthaus)
03–12.2020, Stipend / Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, GER
From 07.2020, jury member / Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, GER
2019
Contributing writer: The Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL, Fall Issue, Article, Martin Puryear: The Freedom of Inner Speech
Artist Talk with Nadine Hahn, Structural Change Kunsthalle Wiesbaden / Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden, Germany
2018
Contributing writer to: The Quarterly Publication of the Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL, Article, Danh Vo: Open Fields of Interpretation
CONTEXTS, International Festival of Ephemeral Art, FOREIGN BODY 8th Edition, Sokołowsko, PL www.contexts.com.pl/en/editions/2018
Curator: Małgorzata Sady
2016
Art-Symposium, LABIRYNT, Slubice PL / Frankfurt (O), GER
2015
Panel Discussion with artists of the exhibition: New Frankfurt Internationals: Solid Signs Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, GER
Kultur Check, Interview with Birgit Winkler, Rhein Main TV, GER
Lecture, Soroptimist International-Mainz-Rosengarten, Mainz, GER
2014/15
Mentor, Master Students at the IKKG, Höhr-Grenzhausen, GER
2014
Guest Lecturer, Art Institute for Glass and Ceramics, Höhr-Grenzhausen, GER
2011
Guest Lecturer, Villa Arson, Nizza, F
2008
Panel Discussion, Naspa Wiesbaden, with Dr. Martin Engler, Städelmuseum and Dr. Ingrid Pfeiffer, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, GER
Lecture and discussion with Dr. Renate Petzinger, Museum Wiesbaden, GER
2005
Lecture, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP
2001
Lecture, BWA Galerie Awangarda, Wroclaw, PL
1995
Associate Editor of Periphery, Journal of Polish Affairs Ann Arbor, MI., USA
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Peripheral Vision II (working title), Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań, PL
Curator: Bogna Błażewicz, arsenal.art.pl/en
2024
Peripheral Vision, Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden, curator: Peter Johansson
2023
Living Systems, Kunstverein Ebene-B1 Taunusanlage e.V., Frankfurt a. M., GER (catalog)
2022
Future Perfect, Hafemann Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
Project support for the exhibition Future Perfect, 'Neustart Kultur, Innovative Projects,
Modul C', funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner
for Culture and Media
2021
Juxtaposition (with Edgar Diehl) OFD Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Catalog)
Curator: Giselher Hartung, Frankfurt am M.
2020
Rock-Rose, L'art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Sainte-Noyale, Pontivy, F www.artchapelles.com Curator: Eric Suchère
2019
Structural Change, Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, GER, Curator: Johannes Muggenthaler
2017
Looking Glass, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL, Curator: Leszek Golec
Snapshots, Marta Shefter Gallery, Cracow, PL, Curators: Marta Błachut / Lucyna Shefter
2016
Point of the Matter, Ron Lang Art, Amsterdam, NL, Curator: Maarten Bertheux
2015
Cloud Backup, DWD, Frankfurt am Main, GER
2014
Decoy, The Richard J. Massey Foundation for Arts and Sciences, New York, USA
ballpark, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, GER
2011
Sight Seeing, Gallery Metis_nl, Amsterdam, NL, Monograph, Salon Verlag Cologne, GER
2010
Remote Control, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
2008
REM-Phase, Museum Wiesbaden, GER (catalogue), Curator: Renate Petzinger
2007
Vice Versa, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Phase-Shift, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2004
Re-Source, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA (catalog)
2003
Pars Pro Toto, U.B.R. Gallery, Salzburg, A
<Sofi Zezmer l Christiane Löhr> Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, GER (catalog), Curator: Elke Gruhn
2002
On Line & Off The Wall, Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden, GER
2001
Lineage, BWA Gallery Awangarda, Wroclaw, PL (catalog)
Fountainhead, Kunstverein Viernheim, GER
1997
Sofi Zezmer/New Works, Raum für Kunst und Zeit, Ingelheim, GER
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Let Them Weave, Contemporary Polish Sewn Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Toruń, PL https://en.csw.torun.pl Curators: Leszek Golec, Łódź, PL, Stanisław Małecki, Warszawa
IKG Exhibition, Rotterdam, NL ikg-art.org
Immaterial, Freshtest #8, Kunsthafen, Köln, GER
Curator: Tina Haase and Karin Hochstatter
2022
Let Them Weave, Contemporary Polish Sewn Art,
Studio Cannaregio, Venice, It, during The Venice Biennial Arte, July-November
Gegenspannend, IKG Exhibition, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, GER ikg-art.org
2021
Rzezba w poszukiwaniu miejsca (Sculpture in Search of its Place), Zacheta National Gallery, Warschau, PL, Curator: Anna Maria Lesniewska (Online catalog)
Gemischtes Doppel: Sofi Zezmer und Edgar Diehl / Zeichnungen, Ober Finanz Direktion, Frankfurt am Main, Kurator: Giselher Hartung (Catalog)
Splendor, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, München, Curator: Johannes Muggenthaler
2020
Wielblad nigdy nie zapomina (a camel never forgets), Galeria lokal_30,
Curator: Agnieszka Rayzacher, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, PL
WETWARE: PROLIFERACJA I PRZECZUCIE (WETWARE: PROLIFERATION AND INTUITION), Instytut Cybernetyki Sztuki, Gdańsk, PL, Curator: Marek Rogulski
Construction in Process 1981-2000, Fundacja Profile Galerie, Warschau,
Curator: Bożena Czubak (Catalog)
2019
Kunszt, Gallery Bielska BWA, Bielsko-Biala, PL
Curator: Eulalia Domanowska, Warsaw, PL
2018
Perforated Walls, PARTI-cipation VII,
Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, GER
Kunszt. Rzezba z Oronska, selection of sculptures from the collection of the Polnish Sclpture Center, Orońsko, at Zbrojownia Gallery, Gdansk, PL
Kunszt, Museum, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL
Kunszt, Museum, Polish Sculpture Center, Orońsko, PL
Drawings II, espace despalles, Paris, F
Curator: Gottfried Hafemann, Wiesbaden, GER
2017
PAPERFILE #13, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, GER
Linie 11, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, GER
Lokale Gruppe, 38. Jahresausstellung der Darmstädter Sezession,
Kurator: Leon Krempel, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, GER
2016
Perusing the planks: Shelf Life, Nouvelles Images Galerie, Den Haag, NL,
Curator: Erik Bos, Den Haag, NL.
PARTI-cipation V, Röhn Museum, Fladungen, GER, Curator: Nadine Hahn
LABIRYNT, Slubice PL / Frankfurt (Oder) GER, (catalog)
IKG Show, bb15 Galerie, Linz, A
2015
New Frankfurt Internationals: Solid Signs, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden and Frankfurter Kunstverein, GER, Curators: Elke Gruhn (NKV), Lilian Engelmann (FKV)
Revisited, Naspa, Wiesbaden, GER, Curator: Cornelia Saalfrank
2014
IKG, Czapski Gallery, Posen, PL
EX-voto, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, SP, Curator: Gino Rubert
2013/14
Peanuts of Joy, Kunstraum Dreieich, Frankfurt/Main, GER, Curator: Ludwig Seyfarth
2013
Linien, Galerie oqbo, Raum für Bild Wort Ton, Berlin, GER, Curators: Ludwig Seyfarth (Berlin), Nora Schattauer (Köln)
2012
Linien, Dok 25a, Düsseldorf, GER, Curators: Ludwig Seyfarth (Berlin), Nora Schattauer (Köln)
2011
Another World, Kunstraum Dreieich, Frankfurt am Main, D, Curator: Ludwig Seyfarth
Lustwarande ’11 – RAW, International Sculptur Biennale,
Park De Oude Warande, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, NL, Curator: Chris Driessen
Eye-Opener, The Funen Art Museum, Odense, DK (catalog)
2008
Five Year Anniversary Show, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Schwerelos, Netuschil Gallery, Darmstadt, GER
Substrat#8, UBR Gallery, Salzburg, A
2007
Quirky, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Connecticut, USA
Curator: Michael Amy (New York)
2006
Sirens, Thom Andriola, The New Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2005
Alternative Paradise, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, JP (catalog) Curator: Emiko Yoshioka (Kyoto), JP
Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Krzatanina, BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, PL, Curator: Anna Plotnicka, (catalog)
2002
Discourski! Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, PL, Curator: Marek Wasilewski, (catalog)
Dialog II, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
Art-X-ibit Material, U.B.R. Gallery, Salzburg, A
2000
Ganz Einfach, Kunstverein Schwetzingen, GER (catalog)
1999
Textil, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, GER (catalog)
1997
Welcome Back to the Human Race, New Light,
Peninsula Gallery, Eindhoven, NL (catalogue)
1996
In Site, Georgian Arts and Culture Center, Tibilissi, GE
Mercator Projektionen, Bellevuesaal Gallery, Wiesbaden, GER
1995
Co-Existence, Mizpeh Rammon, Artists-Symposium,
Negev Desert, IS (catalog)
1993
My Home is Your Home, The Artists' Museum, Łódź, PL
1992
Jestesmy, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, PL (catalog)
1990
The Wall, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1989
The Wall, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA