Sonja Braas

Artist Biography

Born in 1968 in Siegen, Sonja Braas’ work is fascinating and secretive at the same time. Majestic to dramatic perspectives on nature or irritatingly detailed structures are frequent topics in her work. But they somehow seem strange and artificial. This impression is part of her concept, as the photographs are taken from models, that she previously constructed with extraordinary precision in her studio. Enigmatic, sometimes uncanny scenes are frozen in time. From the very beginning of her career, she addresses the idea of a certain media-influenced image of nature and the complex world around the individual.

She lives and works in Germany and New York and her works are part of international Collections such as Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Munich RE and EON AG.

Sonja Braas is represented by Galerie Tanit Munich.

Website

Exhibitions
Featured
ART DÜSSELDORF 2024

From Friday April 12, 2024 to Sunday April 14, 2024

Featured
Paris Photo 2023

From November 9, 2023 to November 12, 2023

Featured
PARIS PHOTO 2019

From November 7, 2019 to November 10, 2019

Featured
PARIS PHOTO 2018

From November 8, 2018 to November 11, 2018

Featured
Paper Trail
50 years
Collective Exhibition

From November 23, 2022 to December 23, 2022

Featured
PARIS PHOTO 2022

From November 10, 2022 to November 13, 2022

Featured
PARIS PHOTO 2021

From November 11, 2021 to November 14, 2021

Featured
The Other Day
Sonja Braas

From June 9, 2022 to August 5, 2022

Featured
A Survey
Sonja Braas

From September 9, 2016 to October 29, 2016

Featured
The Mirror of Illusions
Collective Exhibition

From June 26, 2015 to September 5, 2015

Featured
ART PARIS 2017

From March 29, 2017 to April 2, 2017

Featured
PARIS PHOTO 2017

From November 9, 2017 to November 12, 2017

Featured
Art Cologne 2018

From April 19, 2018 to April 22, 2018

Featured
BEIRUT ART FAIR 2015

From September 17, 2015 to September 20, 2015

Featured
The Passage
Sonja Braas

From September 15, 2012 to October 20, 2012

Featured
The Quiet of Dissolution
Sonja Braas

From June 30, 2006 to September 2, 2006

Sonja Braas News
"Congratulations to our artist Sonja Braas for a successful participation in the traveling exhibition ‘Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography’, with its last stop in Berlin! Stop by at the #alfrederhardtstiftung, Berlin For the opening tomorrow Jan. 10, 7-9 pm Or visit until Apr. 26, 2020"
Sonja Braas | Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography
Read Article
Featured
Sonja Braas | Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie
Read Article
"Pendulum. Moving Goods, Moving People MAST Foundation . Bologna . Italy 04.10.2018 – 13.01.2019 More info"