Sophie Meuresch (*1994, Braunschweig) is a visual artist based in Leipzig, Germany.
Please feel free to aks for collaborations, portraits, artist prints or just drop me a line to have a nice chat:
sophie.meuresch@gmail.com
Education
2018 - 2022 Diploma, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, class of Heidi Specker, Leipzig
2019 National Institut of Design (NID), Gandhinagar, India
2013 - 2018 BA, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Photography, Christopher Muller and Elke Seeger, Essen
2016 - 2017 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Media School, Angela Melitopoulos, Copenhagen
2019 National Institut of Design (NID), Gandhinagar, India
2013 - 2018 BA, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Photography, Christopher Muller and Elke Seeger, Essen
2016 - 2017 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Media School, Angela Melitopoulos, Copenhagen
Grants
2025 Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Amt für Kultur der Landeshauptstadt Dresden
2025 Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Kulturbüro der Landeshauptstadt Hannover
2024 Small Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Kulturamt Leipzig
2024 Kultur-Kollaborateure, with Lissy Willberg and special-needs school Thonberg, Kulturamt Leipzig
2017 - 2022 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2022 Laureate of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents
2019 Exchange Semester at NID Gandhinagar, Goethe Institute Mumbai, India
2018 SASSO-Residency, Vairano, Ticino, Switzerland
2017 Residency, Kolleg für Musik und Kunst, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy
2016 - 2017 Scholarship, Deutschlandstipendium
2025 Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Amt für Kultur der Landeshauptstadt Dresden
2025 Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Kulturbüro der Landeshauptstadt Hannover
2024 Small Project Funding for TRÄNEN, with Jana Mila Lippitz, Kulturamt Leipzig
2024 Kultur-Kollaborateure, with Lissy Willberg and special-needs school Thonberg, Kulturamt Leipzig
2017 - 2022 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2022 Laureate of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents
2019 Exchange Semester at NID Gandhinagar, Goethe Institute Mumbai, India
2018 SASSO-Residency, Vairano, Ticino, Switzerland
2017 Residency, Kolleg für Musik und Kunst, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy
2016 - 2017 Scholarship, Deutschlandstipendium
Exhibitions/ Performances
2025/upcoming
TRÄNEN_collaborative dinner together with Jana Mila Lippitz at Falte - Raum für interdisziplinären künstlerischen Zusammenschluss, 25.+26.04., Hannover
TRÄNEN_collaborative dinner together with Jana Mila Lippitz with Kunsthaus Dresden at Galerie Ursula Walter, 02.+03.05., Dresden
DIE GROSSE_Kunstausstellung NRW, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, 29.06.-03.08.
2024
TRÄNEN_ collaborative dinner together with Jana Mila Lippitz at HELMUT (03.10.), as part of OSTlichter 2024
FOTOHOF>CALLING_ talk, magazine and exhibition, Fotohof Salzburg, Austria das vorphotographische_ AURA Kunstraum, photo+ Festival, Düsseldorf
TRÄNEN_ collaborative dinner together with Jana Mila Lippitz at HELMUT (04.05.) and Pöge-Haus (24.05.), Leipzig
Scene of the Myth. Sarah Pierce_performing in the exhibition, GfZK Leipzig, 01-05.2024
Double Exposure_ Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
2023
Exposure_ Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Photography in Progress_ Internationale Photoszene Festival Cologne, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
Exposure_ Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Photography in Progress_ Internationale Photoszene Festival Cologne, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
2022
The Art of Color_ Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles Foundation, Recontres d’Arles
Diplom Rundgang_ Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
SUPERMOND_ solo exhibition, diploma, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
Widening Circles_ solo exhibition, the Gimp, Berlin
Angenommen, Hier_ group show at Neue Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Gera
The Art of Color_ Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles Foundation, Recontres d’Arles
Diplom Rundgang_ Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
SUPERMOND_ solo exhibition, diploma, HGB Gallery, Leipzig
Widening Circles_ solo exhibition, the Gimp, Berlin
Angenommen, Hier_ group show at Neue Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Gera
2021
in difficult times_ group exhibition, Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
SHORT DATED - pop-up-store for artist books and magazines_ Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden
leuchten_ group exhibition as a satellite of f/stop 9. Festival für Fotografie Leipzig, BB Labor
News from Klasse Specker_ group show and online exhibition, PLAST Space, Leipzig
f/stop Reflections: Come Closer_ group exhibition, f/stop 9. Festival für Fotografie Leipzig, Halle 14 UG
in difficult times_ group exhibition, Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
SHORT DATED - pop-up-store for artist books and magazines_ Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden
leuchten_ group exhibition as a satellite of f/stop 9. Festival für Fotografie Leipzig, BB Labor
News from Klasse Specker_ group show and online exhibition, PLAST Space, Leipzig
f/stop Reflections: Come Closer_ group exhibition, f/stop 9. Festival für Fotografie Leipzig, Halle 14 UG
2020
Responses_ group exhibition at Goethe Institut Mumbai, India (March 2020 -April 2021)
nur Bild_ solo exhibition at Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen (no exhibition due to Covid 19)
Yesterday was dramatic, today is okay_ exhibition with Jana Mila Lippitz, Elsastraße 14, Leipzig
nur Bild_ solo exhibition at Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen (no exhibition due to Covid 19)
Yesterday was dramatic, today is okay_ exhibition with Jana Mila Lippitz, Elsastraße 14, Leipzig
2019
#wessenfreiheit_ group exhibition, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Preview. Fotografie in Leipzig. Morgen_ group exhibition, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
2018
Astrid_ ATELIER – Die Plattform für neue Kunst und Choreographie, PACT Zollverein, Essen
Nichts bleibt vergessen_ bachelor project, Folkwang Finale, Sanaa, Essen
hello from the same side_ group exhibition, Kunsthochschule Mainz
open heart open studio_ group exhibition, Essen
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie_ exhibition at Künstlerkolonnie at Museum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
2017
somo_ exhibition at Kolleg für Musik und Kunst, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy
far too close_ exhibition with Jana Mila Lippitz at Q Gallery, Copenhagen
Rundgang_ Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
2016
some leopards never change their spots_ exhibition with Jana Mila Lippitz at Galerie 52, Essen
feldstärke_ participation and exhibition at PACT Zollverein, Essen
Publications
2024 FOTOHOF>CALLING.Magazin_ Fotohof Salzburg
2023 Widening Circles_Forum (by June Drevet), Camera Austria International No. 163, Austria
2022 The Art of Color_ exhibition catalogue, Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles Foundation
2021 MATRATZE Issue N° 3_contribution to publication, Matratze Magazine, Stuttgart
2020 life is confusing at this point_ Dreiklang N°5, magazine of the Oper Leipzig, in cooperation with Klasse Heidi Specker
2020 Stepwell_self published book
2020 Responses_ exhibition catalogue, Goethe Institute Mumbai, India
2019 let us stop here_ poster edition, Klasse Specker, Smac, Berlin
2019 Preview. Fotografie in Leipzig. Morgen_ exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
2019 The Viehofer Years_ publication about Galerie 52, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen
2018 Nichts bleibt vergessen_ self published book (BA project)
2018 Astrid_ published in Still 6 - magazine featuring inventive writing and photography, Berlin and New York Version
2018 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie – exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt
2023 Widening Circles_Forum (by June Drevet), Camera Austria International No. 163, Austria
2022 The Art of Color_ exhibition catalogue, Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles Foundation
2021 MATRATZE Issue N° 3_contribution to publication, Matratze Magazine, Stuttgart
2020 life is confusing at this point_ Dreiklang N°5, magazine of the Oper Leipzig, in cooperation with Klasse Heidi Specker
2020 Stepwell_self published book
2020 Responses_ exhibition catalogue, Goethe Institute Mumbai, India
2019 let us stop here_ poster edition, Klasse Specker, Smac, Berlin
2019 Preview. Fotografie in Leipzig. Morgen_ exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
2019 The Viehofer Years_ publication about Galerie 52, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen
2018 Nichts bleibt vergessen_ self published book (BA project)
2018 Astrid_ published in Still 6 - magazine featuring inventive writing and photography, Berlin and New York Version
2018 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie – exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt
Workshops
2024 Pose und Porträt_ workshop together with Lissy Willberg at special-needs school Thonberg, Leipzig
2024 Das fotografische Portrait_ workshop at Grand Hotel Kronenhof Pontresina, Switzerland
all images © 2016 - 2025 Sophie Meuresch