„Being an artist means constantly becoming an artist.“

Name
Sophia Uckmann
Profession
Artist
Website
sophia-uckmann.de

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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