©Sophia Uckmann, Körperform I-III, Sanaa Zeche Zollverein, 2018
©Sophia Uckmann, Körperform I-III, Sanaa Zeche Zollverein, 2018

„Being an artist means constantly becoming an artist.“

Name
Sophia Uckmann
Profession
Artist
Website
sophia-uckmann.de

 Sophia Uckmann, 2022
Sophia Uckmann, 2022

Where are you from?
Germany

Your style in 3 words?
concious | material | body

Your weakness? Your strength?
Having strong opinions.

What makes you different?
Different from what?

When did you decide to become an artist?
Being an artist means constantly becoming an artist.

What do you find most fascinating about the creative process?
The certainty that something of substance will always find its way out of the work.

Video: le premier lieu, performance recording, sehsaal vienna
le premier lieu, performance recording, sehsaal vienna

A few words about your favorite creation?
I do not have favorites.

Someone else’s work that inspired or inspires you…
In recent times:Daniela Georgieva’s radical choreographic work, the paintings of Lotte Laserstein, Rachel Whiteread’s body of work.

Who would you like to work with someday and why?
Rebecca Horn, because I could ask her all the questions

©Sophia Uckman, Körperform III 2018
©Sophia Uckman, Körperform III 2018

A new project coming up or an idea you want to work on?
The concept of female solidarity

Finish the sentence „More important than my career is…“
Fully experiencing the cosmos and sharing it with people I love

2022: Where are we going?
in circles

©Sophia Uckman, Dissection of green through time, Atelier, 2018
©Sophia Uckman, Dissection of green through time, Atelier, 2018

When the going gets tough…
Read your favorite author, look at art, be critica.

Put on your future vision glasses: What direction is our generation moving in, what will our world look like in 50 years?
I prefer living in the present, looking forth or back only occupies the possibility to act

What would you do if you could change the World?
End the concept of „Privateigentum“, build a state not focused on making a profit, but enabling everyone to develop a good life in their own sense.

When the going gets tough…
Read your favorite author, look at art, be critica.

Put on your future vision glasses: What direction is our generation moving in, what will our world look like in 50 years?
I prefer living in the present, looking forth or back only occupies the possibility to act

What would you do if you could change the World?
End the concept of „Privateigentum“, build a state not focused on making a profit, but enabling everyone to develop a good life in their own sense

If the universe is everything and it’s expanding, what is it expanding into?
Well, if it can expand, it is not everything! Perhaps we have to work on our perception of expansion and the concept of everything should also be examined further.

©Sophia Uckmann, Tessin, 2019, Sasso Residency
©Sophia Uckmann, Tessin, 2019, Sasso Residency

Tell us about your future plans…
Working with an ensemble of dancers, performers, artists and to research the concept of female solidarity in depth

Your city’s favourite spots?
marameo at Märkisches Museum, the best place to dance in Berlin, Staatsbibliothek to read and work, and the Kindl Berlin with it’s impressive Kesselhaus exhibition space.

©Sophia Uckman, Dissection of green through time, Atelier, 2018
©Sophia Uckman, Dissection of green through time, Atelier, 2018

Last but not least: what is your favourite Song?

I always loved the music from the french music duo Air and i still love it today

One last statement please: „Wood or stone, gold or art?“
Stone and Art, somehow obvious

Your #…?
#sophiauckmann