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Sophia Gatzkan (b.1995, Lipetsk, 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 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (2026), Neue Galerie Graz (2023), Leopold Museum, Vienna (2022), and are in a permanet collection of Wien Meum. 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. 

Education
2018 - 22
MFA, Trans Arts Class, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 

2020
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, ERASMUS semester, Oslo, Norway
2014 - 17
BFA at Hardfordshire University, UK
2015
International Summer Academy, mentored by Nora Schulz, Salzburg, Austria
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
At the edge of sight, Bildraum 01, Vienna
2025
Metal Memory, curated by Zöe de Luca Legge, Limbo Contemporary Gallery, Milan
2024
Memory of matter, curated by Heiko Lietz, Kunstverein Gastgarten, Hamburg
2023
Clinical Fatigue, Artist Statement at Parallel Vienna
Selected group exhibitions
2026
The world without us, Lentos Museum, Linz
2025
Machinic Metabolism, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
2025
Transmission remains, Nouveaux Deuxdeux Gallery, Munich
2025
The Neoliberal Urge to Curate a Friendsgroup, ACUD Gallery, Berlin
2024
Raw upon Raw, Sussudio art space, Vienna
2024
Material Mutants, Hochsommer Festival, KS Room, Feldbach
2024
Gallery Weekend, at Wolf Jordan Gallery, Berlin
2023
Stray Affections, Clubclub art space, Vienna
2023
Everyone can lace on space-age shoes, Neu Galerie Graz, Graz
2023
Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection, Postgarage, Graz
2022
JUICED, Zirkusgasse 38 Project Space, Vienna
2022
Acting in the Now, Leopold Museum, Vienna
2022
Keeping Up with the Trouble: Drama, Brut Nordwest, Vienna
2021
Chambre d’Ami·xes, Laurenz Art Space, Vienna
2021
inframince | infra-mince | infra mince, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
Awards & Scholarships
2023 - 25
START Atelier Stadt Wien
2023 - 24
Arbeitsstipendium Bundesministerium Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung
2023
Bildrecht Young Artist Award, Runner Up
2022
Winner of Ö1 Talentstipendium
2022
START Stipendium Bundesministerium Sparte Bildende Kunst
2022
Nominated to SIMACEK ART Prize
Residencies
2025
Auslandsatelier Kunstforum London,  BMKÖS
Performing Arts
2025
I carry all the names I’m given, with Magdalene Forster and Manuel Riegler at Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
2024
I carry all the names I’m given, with Magdalene Forster and Marlene Kager at Sussudio art space, Vienna
2024
Blue Carrousel, by Lisa Colette Bysheim und Katrin Parry, Danses Hus, Oslo
2023
Stroke all the colours out of the sky, by Asher O’Gorman, Brut Bordwest Theatre, Vienna
2022
Putting the Garden to Sleep, with Olof Runsten at Performance Fiction Festival, at Toihaus Theatre, Salzburg
2021
Putting the Garden to Sleep, with Olof Runsten at Skogen Thearte, Gothenburg 
2021
Putting the Garden to Sleep, with Olof Runsten at Inkonst, Malmö
Artist Talks & Lectures
2025
At the edge of sight in conversation between Sophia Gatzkan and Simon Nagy, Bildraum 01, Vienna
2025
Sculptural Syntax, Trans Arts Class, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2024
Material Mutants in conversation between Sophia Gatzkan and Julie Hayward, KS Room