Paintings looking for content
poor things remain empty
(like the mirror, which fell out in
this surrealistic painting)
the artist‘s name is as worn out, as he is himself
who finally wants their peace
I am so tired of being used as a reference
my pigtails are so long and old,
they reach downstairs
please, let me finally be my original form
bones that fertilize the soil
ashes whirling through the air
do you still recognize the difference
between my remains and the fine dust
that forces us to trot along the highway
(without adrenaline)
so we are forced for eternity to crush
the skull over our own being
stay in your lane, girl
stay in your lane
Asche, 2020
acryl on wood, 9 paintings
each 160 x 120 cm
Sophie Gogl
Sophie Gogl was born in 1992 in Kitzbühel, Austria, and studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Prof. Judith Eisler. Gogl addresses the question of what narratives painted images can achieve in the face of an infinite world of images that appear and disappear again between the Internet, films, advertising and private motifs, often brought forth and sucked back in by data streams. Where the painter's gaze drifts into the offside, sometimes absurd, spaces in the imaginable and possibilities of a contemporary painting are revealed. Time and again, Gogl's practice also includes installations and combinations of different media. Solo exhibitions include Innsbrück International Biennial of the Arts (2024), DOCK20, Lustenau (2023), Kunsthaus Glarus (2023), Francis Irv, New York City (2022), the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (2020) and the Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2020). Gogl's work has been shown in group exhibitions at Julia Stoschek Foundation Berlin (2025), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2024), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023), Kunsthalle Friart, Freiburg (2022), Neuer Wiener Kunstverein Wien (2022, 2023), Kunsthalle Bern (2020).
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- León Ferrari
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Barbara Hammer
- Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Hudinilson Jr.
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony