Sofia Hultén
Sofia Hultén (*1972) lives and works in Berlin and Stuttgart. She studied at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK), at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and at the Berlin University of Arts under Rebecca Horn. In 1997/1998 she was granted a DAAD Scholarship.
In her sculptural work, Sofia Hultén explores different catalysts that disrupt established patterns of perception and uncover unknown dimensions in everyday life. Questioning the interplay between time and matter is a recurring theme throughout her work. The root of her artistic pieces are usually everyday objects which she examines for traces of a previous life, reworks and rearranges into a new context.
Sofia Hultén was a visiting professor of sculpture at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and has held numerous teaching positions at national and international academies and schools, such as at the Valand Academy in Göteborg. From 2017 to 2019 she was an interim professor of sculpture at the Braunschweig University of Art, and from 2021 to 2022 a adjunct professor of the class Image Space Object Glass at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. She has been a professor of sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart since 2023.
Sofia Hultén has exhibited her work in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. In 2011 she was awarded the Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris. www.sofiahulten.de