THE ORCHID FOUNDATION:
BENEFIT AUCTION 2023
Artsy

The Orchid Foundation is a mentorship and scholarship program for underserved girls. We choose girls who are excelling in their academic and extracurricular pursuits to help fill the resource gap presented by their socioeconomic backgrounds. Our mission is to mentor these girls to and through college. We are small by design, going deep rather than broad. We touch the lives of our “Orchids” with personal care, educational support, and a broad-minded view of the world with designs to foster leaders for tomorrow.

This year’s auction features the work of Albert Oehlen, Kim Dingle, Alfredo Jaar, Marilyn Minter, Leonardo Drew, Marnie Weber, Rashid Johnson, and Laurie Simmons among many others.

Nosbaum Reding
Luxembourg / Bruxelles

Luxembourg Art Week, la foire internationale d'art contemporain au Luxembourg, présente, chaque année, une sélection de galeries établies d’envergure internationale et de jeunes galeries émergentes permettant aux collectionneurs et amateurs d’art de découvrir le meilleur de la création moderne et contemporaine.

Main Section | Stand B15
ARTISTS EXHIBITED AT THE FAIR:

Thomas Arnolds, Gladys Bonnet, Mike Bourscheid, JKB Fletcher, Tina Gillen, Sophie Kitching, Melanie Loureiro, Manuel Ocampo, Barthélémy Toguo, Su-Mei Tse, Sophie Ulrich, Fatiha Zemmouri, Peter Zimmermann

Glacis Square (Fouerplaatz)
L-1628 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

VINTERSALON

Group show
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
9 November - 12 December, 2023

Anna Stahn / Asger Harbou Gjerdevik / Casper Aguila / Frederik Næblerød / Helen Teede / Hiu Tung Lau / ihsan saad ihsan tahir / Maria Zahle / Nat Bloch Gregersen / Noah Kanber / Liv Ertzeid / Marie Rud Rosenzweig / Ragnhild May / Sarah McNulty / Sophie Kitching

Group Show
20 artistes de la galerie
GALERIE ISABELLE GOUNOD

November 25 - December 23, 2023

Galerie Isabelle Gounod
13 rue Chapon
75004 Paris

F | L’ART DE VIVRE DU FIGARO

“Sophie Kitching a plus d’un tour dans son sac"

Le F, Supplément Art de Vivre du Figaro
Article de Fabrice Gaignault
Automne 2023

“Cette artiste franco-britannique installée à New York a brillamment réinterprété l’iconique sac Serpenti Forever de la maison Bulgari. Côté jour. Côté nuit.”

GALA

SPÉCIAL ACCESSOIRES:
LES MUST HAVE DE LA RENTRÉE

Gala nº1582 / 5 octobre 2023

Photo: Émilie Erbin
Réalisation: Malika Slimani
Directrice de la Mode: Adèle Bréau

“SUPERMAR’CHIC”

Comme une reminiscence, les accessoires de la saison s’amusent, se glissent et s’immiscent sur les etals, la balance, dans les rayons d’une jolie épicerie, a la Maison Plisson.

“Sac à main Seprenti Forever Invisible Green en cuir de veau imprimé avec doublure en cuir nappa er fermoir Serpenti en laiton, Bulgari, Serpenti in Art x Sophie Kitching.”

ICON MALAYSIA

“Bvlgari invites famous contemporary artists to tailor Serpenti Forever handbags”

Text by Tiffany Tan
5 October 2023

“British-French artist Sophie Kitching currently lives in the United States. She applied her expertise to these two Serpenti Forever bags. Just like his painting "Invisible Green", the first handbag uses white calfskin as the canvas, using different shades of green, petals and leaves to create this work of art. She uses vivid paintings and snake-head buckles inlaid with colorful enamel in the same color to inject innovative style into the classic and timeless handbags.

The second handbag design also shows the infinite charm of nature. She draws inspiration from the "Nocturne" painting. The rich and colorful pattern forms a strong contrast with the black calfskin background, reflecting the mysterious charm of the snake.”

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SOLO SHOw
SIGHT SPECIFIC

4 Cromwell Place, Gallery 1
South Kensington, London SW7 2JE
September 19-24, 2023

Sophie Kitching is a US-based, French-British cross-disciplinary artist whose work portrays an unbridled exploration of the natural environment. Anchored by her experience within, and fascination for scenography, vibrant installations, works on paper, paintings and print works seek to enact the essence of a place, harbouring a perpetual sense of the botanical which is contained within the imagined framework of a window or stage.

Conceived to reinstate a fleeting moment, as if freezing the after-effect of the camera’s flash as it seers an image upon the retina, Sophie’s works invite contemplation while provoking closer inspection, to look, see and discover the individual plants, flowers and microcosms within a meticulously cultivated garden. Many of Sophie Kitching’s pieces are abstractions of the landscapes she has travelled through. Unfurling from the purest form of a small brushstroke — which, for her, emerges naturally in the delicately curved shape of a leaf — each work progresses through a material journey within the specificity of the ecology depicted.

Sight Specific presents a curation of works from Sophie Kitching’s Nocturne and Invisible Green series’ alongside a selection of emerald green panels and watercolours on paper which mediate between the two. Extending the dialogue further are inquiries on polycarbonate and fabric which lend a new perspective on landscape altogether through architectural qualities which hold the verdant elements suspended within, alongside the ephemeral animation of the painted veil as it plays with the wake of someone passing.

The experience of various mediums takes a further departure through installation. Resting within a bath of unfiltered Thames water, the word “afloat” is displayed in neon, held in equilibrium by electrical cables within the biosphere, which continues to slowly develop its own lifecycle in the aquarium despite being cut off from the exterior world. Combining two rival elements, water and high voltage neon light, the installation establishes an alluring interplay between inside and outside and emphasises the thread that simultaneously repels and binds the natural and man-made worlds.

The array of instruments Sophie Kitching employs draw focus to her works’ points of visual difference, highlighting the micro, the barely perceptible within the flourish of each piece as a whole. A fragmented landscape is drawn back together in a process of discovery akin to exploring a new geography. Subtle differences in pattern language, colour palette and composition become the focus, bringing perspective to the work and provoking a sensorial engagement entirely specific to each viewer.

—Text by Tiffany Jade

PARIS FASHION WEEK

September 26th, 2023

BVLGARI TEMPLE
23-25 Place Vendôme
75001 Paris

Special event during PFW to celebrate the launch of BVLGARI’s new collection and the 75th Anniversary of the Serpenti Icon. Sophie Kitching’s Nocturne Serpenti Forever Top Handle bag is showcased in the window of the BVLGARI Place Vendôme Flagship store on rue des Capucines.

SOLO SHOW
SIGHT SPECIFIC

The Finch Project | Cromwell Place | London
September 19-24, 2023

“An invitation
To become sublimely lost
amongst the unseen
To dive within the flora
Submerged in viridescence 
Scattering the colourful debris
Which gently settles in my wake”

—First impressions by Tiffany Jade

LONDON FASHION WEEK

September 21st, 2023

BVLGARI TEMPLE
168 New Bond Street
London W1S 4RB

Special meeting during LFW to celebrate the launch of Sophie Kitching’s Capsule Collection in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Serpenti at BVLGARI New Bond Street with the London Bulgari teams. The capsule collection will be showcased at Harrods and Selfridges in the coming weeks

Special mention in Design Anthology UK — Issue 15 of my upcoming solo show “SIGHT SPECIFIC” at The Finch Project, London.

Full page with Nocturne XII, 2023

Thursday, September 7, 2023
BULGARI SERPENTI IN ART FEATURING SOPHIE KITCHING
Bulgari, NYC

Photos: Rommel Demano/BFA.com
Editing: Jenna Burke/BFA.com
Credit : BFA

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Photos at BVLGARI Fifth Avenue with Lucia Silvestri and Hervé Perrot.

NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

September 7th, 2023

BVLGARI TEMPLE
730 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

Special event during NYFW to celebrate the launch of Sophie Kitching’s Capsule Collection in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Serpenti at BVLGARI’s Flagship store on Fifth Avenue & 57th Street.

Photos by BFA

GOLSA X ALICE FOLKER

Alice Folker Gallery has invited Golsa, a contemporary art gallery in Oslo, representing established and emerging artists, both Norwegian and international to a joint exhibition on Esplanaden 14, Copenhagen. Golsa has curated an exhibition program reflecting contemporary sensibilities, featuring artists who pose complex questions and offer insightful reflections on the world.

Group show
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
22 August - 15 September, 2023

Featured artists:
Abby Robinson
Anna Stahn
Asger H. Gjerdevik
Charlie Roberts
Frederik Næblerød
Kristian Touborg
Maria Zahle
Melinda Braathen
Nick Farhi
Noah Kanber
Sophie Kitching
Yves Schrerer

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ENTER ART FAIR, COPENHAGEN
PRESENTED BY ALICE FOLKER GALLERY

Booth 55
August 24th - 27th, 2023

Featured artists: Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Frederik Næblerød, Maria Zahle, Marie Rud Rosenzweig, Sophie Kitching 

Lokomotivværkstedet
Otto Busses Vej 5A
2450 Copenhagen SV
Denmark

[PREVIEW]

ENTER ART FAIR

with ALICE FOLKER GALLERY

Lokomotivværkstedet, Otto Busses Vej 5A
2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark
August 24th - 27th, 2023

Enter Art Fair is Scandinavia’s largest international art fair. The annual four-day event takes place in Copenhagen and brings the best of contemporary art to discover & acquire from 88 of the world’s leading galleries & their artists. The 2023 edition marks Enter Art Fair’s 5th year anniversary and will bring the international art world together in a specially-curated celebration 24–27 August.

GOLSA X ALICE FOLKER

Alice Folker Gallery has invited GOLSA, a contemporary art gallery in Oslo that represents established and new artists, both Norwegian and international, to a joint exhibition at Esplanaden 14, Copenhagen with the following artists: Abby Robinson, Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Charlie Roberts, Frederik Næblerød, Kristian Thouborg, Maria Zahle, Nick Farhi, Noah Kanber, Sophie Kitching and others.

OPENING August 22, 2023
ON VIEW through September 15, 2023

Group show
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
22 June - 29 July, 2023

Featured artists: Abby Robinson, Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Charlie Roberts, Frederik Næblerød, Kristian Thouborg, Maria Zahle, Nick Farhi, Noah Kanber, Sophie Kitching…

BULGARI | SERPENTI IN ART

In celebration of the deep bond between the mythical snake and the world of art, BVLGARI launches a capsule collection of Serpenti Forever handbags born from the collaboration with three contemporary artists who lent their creative vision to the icon of endless metamorphosis.

OPPOSING FORCES

Focusing on the duality of the snake and its infinite power of transformation, the artist Sophie Kitching plays with opposing forces - such as day and night, inside and outside - in her versions of the Serpenti Forever top handle bag. Nature-inspired motives, evoking the lively strokes of her paintings, animate the black and white Calf Leather body and culminate in the iconic snakehead closure with multicoloured enamel scales.

Designed in New York, handmade in Florence and unveiled in Paris during Fashion Week – Haute Couture, this bespoke work of art celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the Serpenti Icon. The duality of the snake and its infinite power of transformation is exalted by the nature-inspired motifs, brought to life in an exuberance of color.

SOMMER SHOWROOM

Group show
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
22 June - 29 July, 2023

Anna Stahn
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik
Casper Aguila
Frederik Næblerød
Marie Rud Rosenzweig
Maria Zahle
Nat Bloch Gregersen
Ragnhild May
Sophie Kitching

Available works

𝐴̀ 𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛

Chez Anne Carpentier
Arles, South of France
By appointment
July 6-28, 2023

Une exposition à voir sur rendez-vous jusqu’au 28 juillet, avec les œuvres de 16 artistes chéris depuis le début de la galerie, réunis par une de leurs œuvres comme pour un bouquet : Aglaé Bory, Lia Rochas-Pàris, Axel Chay, Emmanuelle Roule, Jean Marquès, Alison Thirion, Stéphane Berthelot, Nikita Garrido, Dora Maar, Sylvie Saulnier, Ambre Jarno pour Maison Intègre, Elena Simon, Marion Mailaender, We Not Work Alone et, en collaboration avec Emmanuelle Oddo, Sophie Kitching et Akitsu Orii.

SOMMER SHOWROOM

Group show
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
22 June, 2022 - 29 July, 2023

Anna Stahn
Asger Harbou Gjerdevik
Casper Aguila
Frederik Næblerød
Marie Rud Rosenzweig
Maria Zahle
Nat Bloch Gregersen
Ragnhild May
Sophie Kitching

Available works

Paris, France.
07th June, 2023.

Fabien ValLerian and Sophie Kitching attending the 2bd Kimpton Festival at the Kimpton Hotel in Paris, France on June 07, 2023.

Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM
Credit: Abaca Press

SHARE CANCER Support

SHARE NYC HEADQUARTERS
curated by Camilla STÆRK

Unveiled June 2023

SHARE is focused on specific women’s cancers Ovarian, Cervical, Uterine, Breast and Metastatic Breast Cancers. Upon Camilla Stærk’s invitation, I donated my work ‘Mirror & stones V’ (2016) to help create “an uplifting, hopeful and inspiring home for the SHARE organisations admirable mission of supporting women in NYC who have been diagnosed with cancer; a home for the SHARE staff, volunteers and ambassadors.”

Group show
[EXTENDED]

TROIS À PART

Sophie Kitching
Sophie Ullrich
Jan Voss

Nosbaum Reding
Rue de la Concorde, 60
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique

Extended through May 20, 2023

GROUP SHOW

FEMME F(R)ICTION
An Exhibition celebrating female artists of the last 100 YEARS

C1760
Academy Mansion
2 East 63rd Street
New York, NY 10065

May 10 - 23, 2023

With: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tomma Abts, Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo, Yasmina Alaoui, Lita Albuquerque, Andrea Marie Breiling, Johanna Bath, Clarina Bezzola, Sofia Borges, Andrea Bowers, Cecily Brown, Lee Bul, Chiara Capellini, Leonora Carrington, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Colbert, Gabriella Crespi, Isabelle D, Brigitte D’Annibale, Carmen D’Appollonio, Jen DeNike, Betil Dagdelen, Daisy Dodd-Noble, Ingrid Donat, Marlene Dumas, Egg Collective, Kim Faler, Leonor Fini, Vera Frisén, Rachel Garrard, Isa Genzken, Françoise Gilot, Paula Hayes, Mary Heilmann, Loie Hollowell, Baseera Khan, Anna Kenneally, Sophie Kitching, Seffa Klein, Louise Lawler, Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi, Sherrie Levine, Maria Lindeman, Tamara de Lempicka, Esther Mahlangu, Sophie Matisse, Keelin Montzingo, Calli Moore, Louise Nevelson, Michele Oka Doner, Precious Opara, Naïla Opiangah, Maria Pergay, Toni Ross, Analia Saban, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Virginia San Fratello, Lola Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Jeanne Silverthorne, Emily Sundblad, Valentine de Saint-Point, Pat Steir, Rosemarie Trockel, Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, Faye Toogood, Maryam Turkey, Nicola Tyson, Kara Walker, Joana Vasconcelos, Leslie Wayne, Susannah Weaver, Claudia Wieser, Victoria Wilmotte, Antonia Wright, Najla El Zein.

LAST DAY

Of Their Time (7) A look on private collections
curated by Keren Detton et Michel Poitevin
in partnership with ADIAF
FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque

Through 23 April, 2023

Frac Grand Large

OPEN STUDIO

DUMBO OPEN STUDIOS
Presented by Art in Dumbo

22 - 23 April, 2023
1-6pm

68 Jay Street
Studio #524
Brooklyn, NY 11201

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ART FAIR

ART BRUSSELS
Presented by Nosbaum Reding, Bruxelles / Luxembourg
Prime Section - 5A-10
20 - 23 April, 2023

Brussels Expo | Halls 5 & 6
Place de la Belgique 1
1020 Bruxelles
Belgique

MUSEUM SHOW

Of Their Time (7) A look on private collections
curated by Keren Detton et Michel Poitevin
in partnership with ADIAF
FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque

Through 23 April, 2023

Frac Grand Large

HIGHLIGHT

Invisible Blind
2022
acrylic, cord, vinyl blind bar
79 x 36 1/4 in. (200 x 92 cm)

On view at Alice Folker Gallery
Copenhagen, Denmark

OPEN STUDIO 2023

68 Jay Street
Studio #524
Brooklyn, NY 11201

A keen observer of her environment, French-British artist Sophie Kitching (b. 1990, Isle of Wight, UK) creates installations, paintings, and sculptures that offer condensed versions of natural phenomena. Sophie Kitching reacts to specific places, found materials, colors and forms, translating their affective properties into new states, either on canvas or in three-dimensional space. Landscape, particularly the problematics of its representation, frequently figures into these explorations. Like under-paintings culled from the world around us, Sophie Kitching’s compositions draw the viewer into a negotiation with space and depth, the seen and unseen, alternating between gestural brushstrokes on the exterior, and the raw material structure beneath.

Her studio features large paintings on canvas, framed works and sculptures, as well as works in progress

GROUP SHOW

TROIS À PART
Sophie Kitching, Sophie Ullrich, Jan Voss

March 16 - May 5, 2023

Rue de la Concorde, 60
1050 Bruxelles
Belgique

PRESS - in print

PORTRAIT D’ARTISTE: SOPHIE KITCHING
Revue Point Contemporain #28
Mars-Avril-Mai 2023

“Au XVIIIe siècle, le jardinier était comparé à un peintre, tant les analogies avec la peinture étaient nombreuses dans ses compositions. En virtuose, il accommodait les formes comme les couleurs dans des variations harmonieuses s’ingéniant à créer un écrin aux émotions des promeneurs. De même, en regardant les peintures de cette époque, il est aisé de dire que l’artiste, par son aptitude à composer des tableaux comme théâtre de scènes bucoliques, s’apparente à un jardinier. Sophie Kitching cultive ce même dialogue entre Nature et création, cette même attention portée à l’art des plantes et au paysage.”

GROUP SHOW

Of Their Time (7) A look on private collections
curated by Keren Detton et Michel Poitevin
in partnership with ADIAF
FRAC Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque

28 January - 23 April, 2023

Frac Grand Large
Connaissance des Arts
Télérama

MEMBERs NIGHT

Cromwell Place
The Finch Project
March 9, 2023

4 Cromwell Place
London, SW7 2JE
,United Kingdom

PRESS

NEW YORK — SOPHIE KITCHING: “NOCTURNE” AT 3A GALLERY THROUGH FEBRUARY 26TH, 2023
Article by Alena Marchak
February 25th, 2023

“For her latest exhibition on view at 3A Gallery, Sophie Kitching presents new paintings from her Nocturne series, a shadowy and dreamy companion to her Invisible Green series, started in 2019. Both the Nocturnes and the Invisible Green paintings incorporate images of bright flowers and leaves as their main subject matter, but the former is painted onto a background made of black ink mixed with Payne’s gray whereas the latter is on a white canvas. The contrast of both and indeed the title itself—Nocturne—alludes to the opposites representing night and day versions of one another, but moreover they tell a subtle tale of light versus shadow and express entirely different temperaments and moods.”

SOLO SHOW

Nocturne
3A Gallery
7 January - 18 February, 2023 [EXTENDED]

179 Canal Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10013

By appointment only: info3agallery@gmail.com
Email: sk@sophiekitching.com
DM @sophie.kitching
Text/call: 646-886-4042

Gallery Website

Photos: Migle Staniskyte

GROUP SHOW

Little Shop of Extraordinary Personal Beauty
curated by Anna Stahn
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
3 December, 2022 - 15 February, 2023

Untitled, 2020
From a suite of 15
Japanese watercolor on Fabriano paper
sheet: 7 x 14 in. (18 x 36 cm) each

Gallery Website

MUSEUM SHOW

De leur temps (7) Un regard sur des collections privées
Commissariat : Keren Detton (Frac Grand Large) et Michel Poitevin (ADIAF)
Invited by Annie Combelles
FRAC Grand Large / HautsdeFrance

28 January - 23 April, 2023

Fonds régional d’art contemporain
503 avenue des Bancs de Flandres,
59140 Dunkerque, France

Wednesday - Friday: 2pm-6pm
Saturday - Sunday: 10am-6pm
The FRAC is closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

FRAC Website

Press Release

ART FAIR

Art HERNING
Presented by Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
27 - 29 January, 2023

MCH Herning Kongrecenter
Østergade 37, 7400 Herning

Gallery Website

ART FAIR

London Art Fair
Presented by The Finch Project, London
18 - 22 January, 2023
Preview: Tuesday 17th January from 5-9pm

Business Design Centre, Islington
52 Upper St, London N1 0QH, United Kingdom

Gallery Website

SOLO SHOW

Nocturne
3A Gallery
7 January - 18 February, 2023

179 Canal Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10013

By appointment only: info3agallery@gmail.com
Email: sk@sophiekitching.com
DM @sophie.kitching
Text/call: 646-886-4042

Gallery Website

Press Release
Checklist
Resume

GROUP SHOW

Little Shop of Extraordinary Personal Beauty
curated by Anna Stahn
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
3 December, 2022 - 15 February, 2023

With: Anna Stahn / Marie Rosenzweig / Frederik Næblerød / Asger Harbou Gjerdevik / Casper Aguila / Nat Bloch Gregersen / Ragnhild May / Hiu Tung Lau / Bob Eikelboom / Sophie Kitching / Theodor Nymark / Maria Zahle / Erik Hällman / Noah Umur Kanber / Tal Regev

Gallery Website

INSTALLATION

Twitch of the Eye
PS122 Gallery
12 March 2022 - present

150 First Avenue, at the corner of 9th Street
New York, NY 10009

On view 24/7 from the street level

Gallery Website

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