Bio

Sophia Gatzkan (b.1995, Lipesk, RU) is a Vienna-based visual artist. Her keen fascination for the human body with a focus on the discourse of disability continuously informs her creative work. Within her research, Sophia is theorising on non-normative morphology as an-other way of being, prompting critical inquiries into ethics, ideologies, and power structures within it. Sophia's work delves into the transformation of the human body by transcending its morphological integrity, creating sculptures that capture corporeal ambiguity and fluidity, offering a captivating site of disruption and reflection on the human complexities.

Sophia holds an MFA from University of Applied Arts, Vienna and BFA from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her works have been exhibited at Neue Galerie Graz (2023), Leopold Museum, Vienna (2022), and abroad. Also she had various collaborations within the performing art field that were shown at Brut theatre,Vienna (2023), Inkonst theatre, Malmö (2021), and others. In 2022 she was awarded with Ö1 Talentestipendium, START Stipendium from the Federal Ministry of Culture, and Arbeitsstipendium from Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research this year.

Solo exhibitions

The neoliberal Urge to Curate a Friendsgroup, ACUD Gallery, Berlin 
Raw upon Raw, Sussudio art space, Vienna 
Material Mutants, with Julie Hayward, Hochsommer Festival, KS Room, Feldbach
Wolff l Jordan, Gallery Weekend, Berlin
Stray Affections, Clubclub art space, Vienna
Everyone can lace on space-age shoes, Neu Galerie Graz Studio, Graz
Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection, Postgarage, Graz
JUICED, Zirkusgasse 38 Project Space, Vienna
Acting in the Now, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Keeping Up with the Trouble: Drama, Brut Norwest, Vienna
Chambre d’Ami·xes, Laurenz Art Space, Vienna
INTÉRIEUR A Tribute To Erwin Hauer, Club Club, Vienna
inframince | infra-mince | infra mince, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
Oh yah, Humanity, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Vienna Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna
Thomas Supper and Sophia Latysheva at Laurenz Space, Vienna
NaJa, WelllWellWell Gallery, Vienna
ScukptFest, Carving Studio & Sculptural Centre, Vermont, USA
The Last Year of My Twenties, 9 האזמ(Maze 9) Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Artist Talks

Sculptural Syntax, Trans Arts Class, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Material Mutants in conversation between Sophia Gatzkan and Julie Hayward, KS Room, Feldbach

Stadt Wien START Atelier
Arbeitsstipendium Bundesministerium Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung
Bildrecht Young Artist Award
Ö1 Talentstipendium
START Stipendium Bundesministerium

I carry all the names I’m given, performance with Magdalene Forster at Sussudio art space within Vienna Art Week program