Sonya Schönberger
Biography
2014-17
Mentee of the Berlin Performing Arts Program (PAP)
1996-01
Studies in Ethnology and Philosophy, Free University of Berlin, as well as European Ethnology at Humboldt University
1999-00
Erasmus Scholarship, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Photography School GAF (Group of AutodidacOc Photographers), Zurich, Switzerland
2004-05
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005-08
Studies in Experimental Media Design, University of the Arts, Berlin
2009
Master Student (Meisterschülerin) of Prof. Thomas Arslan, University of the Arts, Berlin
2025
Lecture at Haute école des arts du Rhin, Mulhouse, France
2024
Workshop and lecture series at the Institute Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France
Visiting Artist at Summer School, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2023
Lecture, Bauhaus University, Weimar
Kölner Kongress, Deutschlandradio
2022
Lecture, Hunter College, New York, USA
2021
Workshop on Witnessing, Weissensee Art Academy, Berlin
2020
Workshop and student’s exhibition at TANK, Institute of Art, FHNW, Basel, Switzerland
2018/19
Seminar on Witnessing as an Artistic Strategy with Clarissa Thieme, Institute for Art and
Media, UdK Berlin
2025
Archives & Orbits, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
Wohnkomplexe, DAS MINSK, Potsdam (upcoming)
Mapping out the Dead, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada (upcoming)
Glas, Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor, Berlin (upcoming)
Nägel, St. Matthäus Church, Berlin
2024
ON SEEKING, After the Butcher, Berlin
Bilder und Zeiten, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin
Salt.Clay.Rock., nGbK, Berlin
Marta, USC Library, Los Angeles, California
Einen Ausdruck finden für dieses Leben, Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
2023
If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Voicing Bethanien – An Art Space in Context, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Marta, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
Rooms with a View, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin
Goethe's Potted Plants, Goethehaus Weimar
2022
Berliner Zimmer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Art Prize, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
Deeply Rooted, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
Mimicry/Empathy, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
2021
Wise & Walden, Kunsthaus Erfurt
...lives and works in Berlin, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin
Nägel, Schwerbelastungskörper, Museum Tempelhof-Schöneberg
2020
One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer, Kunsthaus Dresden
The Happiness of the Province, ACC Galerie Weimar & Kunstverein Jena
2019
Haerfest, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Since 2018
Berliner Zimmer video archive in collaboration with Stadtmuseum Berlin
2018
Fault Lines, x-mbassy, former Australian Embassy of the GDR
Colette, Berlin weekly
Großraum, Gallery of the Association of German Architects, Berlin
2017
In Spite of the Ruins, Katharina Maria Raab Gallery
Women in Politics, Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Kenya
Feeling Safe, video installation, Humboldt-Box, Berlin
Field Trip, FRAGMENTA, Malta
2016
Feeling Safe, video installation, Ephraim-Palais, Stadtmuseum Berlin
The Throw, National Gallery Skopje, North Macedonia
The Shapeless Mass, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
Gangaram Gurung in Digging Deep – Crossing Far, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien and Alhmara Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
Tracing the Void, uqbar, Berlin
Three Stones, Berlin-Babylon-Baghdad Festival, Cast Collection of Classical Sculpture
Fachidiotisch – A Consideration, Britzenale, Berlin
2015
Colette, Funkhaus Nalepastraße, Berlin
Like a Monkey with a Miniature Cymbal, statsion, Berlin
André & Arno, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Neue Berliner Räume
Michael, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) & IVS Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
2014
Anton, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, studio space
Fuge, facade installation, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Key Handover, ADN Gatehouse, Berlin & Wende Museum, Los Angeles, California
Images We Keep / Elisabeth, Neue Berliner Räume
2013
Shards, with Christof Zwiener, Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin
Berlin, Capital of the GDR, with Christof Zwiener, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2012
Yesterday’s Farewell, 5th International Baku Biennale, Azerbaijan
Anton, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York City & Raum für Zweckfreiheit, Berlin
Outer Space, Full Tilt, McIvers, Newfoundland, Canada
2024/25
Kone Foundation Research Grant, in collaboration with Feral Practice & Egle Oddo
2024
Research Grant, Berlin Senate
2023
Capital Cultural Fund for Voicing Bethanien, Kunstraum Kreuzberg (awarded to the institution)
2020
Kur-ona Grant, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
2019
Initial Funding, Fonds Darstellende Künste
2017
GLOBAL Grant, Berlin Senate, for collaboration with the National Drama Theater of Lithuania
2015
Ilse-Augustin Foundation Grant
Re-performance Funding, Berlin Senate, for Rosemarie
2014
Visual Arts Work Grant, Berlin Senate
Individual Project Grant for Performing Arts, Berlin Senate, for Rosemarie
2012
New York Grant, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
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