Kreuzberg, Berlin
Sofia Hultén
Concrete Head
Nordenhake"In her fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake, Sofia Hultén presents new kinetic sculptures, a series of works on paper, and two groups of new sculptures. The title draws on an expression from her hometown of Birmingham: While the term usually refers to a stubborn or mentally rigid person, the artist knows it from her youth, when it was colloquially used to describe someone who could consume drugs without any noticeable physical consequences. In her practice, linguistic ambiguities intersect with material narratives, generating new meanings through their friction..." Sofia Hultén was born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in Birmingham, UK and studied sculpture at Sheffield Hallam University. Since 1998 she lives and works in Berlin. She is a professor at the State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart since 2023. Hultén has had solo exhibitions at Kindl Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2018), Museum Tinguely, Basel and Ikon Gallery Birmingham (both 2018), Espai13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2015), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick (2013), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2009), Künstlerhaus Bremen (2008), Kunstverein Nürnberg (2007). Hultén was part of various group exhibitions among others at Fullersta Gård, Stockholm (2025), Schiller Museum, Weimar (2023), Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstpalais Erlangen (both 2022), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel (2020), Kunsthalle Mainz (2017), Kunstverein Freiburg (2016), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 8th Nordic Biennal of Contemporary Art, Moss (both 2015), Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Frankfurter Kunstverein (both 2014). She will participate in a group exhibition curated John Peter Nilsson in Stockholm later this year. Sofia Hultén was recipient of the Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris in 2011.