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until 24.04. | #4987ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from 20. March 2026 the exhibition „Concrete Head“ by the artist Sofia Hultén.
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. […]
United Fuckers of Contingency in Stasis, 2026, aluminum pole, jeans, coins, motor, stainless steel
Sofia Hultén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. She grew up in Birmingham, UK, and studied sculpture at Sheffield Hallam University. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 1998. Since 2023, she has been a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.
Recent solo exhibitions include shows at the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and the Museum Tinguely, Basel, in collaboration with the Ikon Gallery Birmingham (both in 2018). She has also had solo exhibitions at Espai13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2015), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2013), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2009), Künstlerhaus Bremen (2008), and Kunstverein Nürnberg (2007). Hultén has participated in various group exhibitions, including at Fullersta Gård, Stockholm (2025), the Schiller Museum, Weimar (2023), the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstpalais Erlangen (both 2022), the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), and the Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel (2020). Other group exhibitions include shows at the Kunsthalle Mainz (2017), the Kunstverein Freiburg (2016), the DAAD Gallery, Berlin, the 8th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss (both 2015), Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, and the Frankfurter Kunstverein (both 2014). She is scheduled to participate in a group exhibition curated by John Peter Nilsson in Stockholm this year.
Opening: Friday, 20 March 2026, 6:00–8:00 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 21. March – Friday, 24. April 2026
To the Gallery
Image Title: Concrete Head, 2026, concrete, clay, pebbles. 27 x 17 x 12 cm, 10 5/8 x 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Exhibition Sofia Hultén – Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Contemporary Art in Berlin| Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
