ART CONTEMPORAIN / EXPOSITIONS / INTERVIEWS
Photo: Mathieu Bonnevie
THE STEIDZ
"Sophie Kitching, peintre à rebours"
October 2024
Entretien de Thibault Bissirier
2 October 2024
”On ne distingue d’abord qu’un martelage de teintes, d’écrasis tapageurs sur des fonds d’émeraude calmes. Jusqu’à ce que la surface cède et laisse se promener l’œil au milieu des couleurs et des motifs de fleurs. Sophie Kitching (née en 1990, Royaume-Uni) cultive le geste abstrait, par lequel elle ouvre des mondes. Portrait de l’artiste en éclaireuse, à l’occasion de sa nouvelle exposition à la galerie Isabelle Gounod, à Paris.”
Architectural Digest nº186
Le Nouveau Goût Français
Septembre / Octobre 2024
"L'univers AD: S'émerveiller dans une cave secrète"
“Il faut oser se mesurer à l'antre sculptural créé par Sou Fujimoto pour la Maison Ruinart, à Reims. C'est le défi artistique qu'a relevé la plasticienne franco-britannique Sophie Kitching dans le nouveau Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart, qui sera dévoilé le 5 octobre. Cette cave secrète, accessible uniquement aux collec-tionneurs, conservera les cinq cuvées les plus historiques et prestigieuses de la maison. Sa lumière ambrée, conçue pour préserver les vins, a nourri l'inspiration de Sophie Kitching, qui participera aux n10 dispositifs artistiques prévus par Ruinart sur le site. Son Aure ambrée, réalisée in situ sur un miroir, s'exprime tout en courbes comme une mandorle, épousant l’architecture du lieu et illuminant l’espace de ses reflets, conçus à partir de précieuses feuilles d’or.”
L’Aure Ambrée, de Sophie Kitching, à partir du 5 octobre, Pavillon Ruinart, 51100 Reims
Photo: Mathieu Bonnevie
POLYCHROMA, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris
September 7 - October 19, 2024
SLASH PARIS
September 2024
09/24
Notre sélection d'expositions
Invitée à investir l’espace de la galerie Isabelle Gounod, Sophie Kitching crée un paysage in situ, une nature accueillant expériences sensorielles, sensuelles et esthétiques, au-delà de la perception du paysage. Un écho aux écrits de Huysmans qui évoquait sa "fièvre d’inconnu, son idéal inassouvi, son besoin d’échapper à l’horrible réalité de l’existence, à franchir les confins de la pensée..."
You can't have a rainbow without a little rain
the taste of Studio Jeppe Hein
2024
Published by Buchhandlung Walther König
Recipes, ingredients, photos and illustrations / Photos of artworks, studio life and exhibition projects with photos of ingredients, our rooftop garden, the kitchen and our lunch together. We also asked four of our favorite colleagues - Sophie Kitching, Jose Dávila, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Anselm Reyle - to create an artist dinner with us.
YOU CAN'T HAVE A RAINBOW WITHOUT A LITTLE RAIN. The taste of Studio Jeppe Hein is not a typical cookbook, just as it isn’t merely an art book. Besides recipes from the studio kitchen, it provides an exclusive insight into the studio and the art that is created there. Images of artworks, studio life and exhibition projects mingle with images of ingredients, the roof garden, the kitchen and shared lunches. Artists Sophie Kitching, Jose Dávila, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen and Anselm Reyle each hosted a rainbow dinner. Author and philosopher Finn Janning contributes with a Philosophy of the Saucepan. The book illustrates our great passion for art and cooking and how important eating together is to us in our life and work.
ELLE DECORATON UK
N°374 | MARCH 2024
Clear & Present
Portfolio “Heart of Glass”
Stylist: Sania Pell
Photographer: Michael Sinclair
Fabruary 6, 2024
Artwork featured: Untitled (Vision), 2023
oil, aerosol, acrylic on polycarbonate, acrylic mirror
aluminum frame
122 x 122 cm
Private collection, New York
CRASH MAGAZINE
CRASH N°101
THE ART ISSUE | WOMEN ONLY
Interview by Armelle Leturcq
December 8, 2023
CONSTANTLY DEVALUED, FEMININITY IS FAR MORE OFTEN CALLED INTO QUESTION THAN MASCULINITY EVER IS. BY SHEER FORCE OF CONFRONTING SO MANY CLICHÉS, 1970S FEMINIST ARTISTS WERE ABLE TO VIOLENTLY CHALLENGE THEIR IDENTITY AS WOMEN. BECAUSE ART IS NOT A SEPARATE SPHERE, WHERE EVERYONE ABANDONS THEIR INDIVIDUALITY FOR AN ILLUSORY NEUTRALITY. IF FEMININITY IS STILL OFTEN EXPERIENCED AS A SOCIAL CONSTRAINT, THE CHALLENGE IS TO RECONNECT WITH A FREEDOM OF ACTION AND DISCOVER A GENUINE OPENNESS THAT COULD ENRICH ARTISTIC AND EMANCIPATORY SEARCH IN FRESH, NEW WAYS. BUT FAR FROM IDENTITY CLAIMS THAT ARE CONTENT TO OPPOSE THE MASCULINE, IT TURNS OUT THAT IF FEMININITY MAKES SENSE TODAY, IT IS IN A WAY THAT HAS A POTENTIAL FOR PLURALITY. IT’S AS IF THE IDENTITY SUPERNOVA HAD EXPLODED: THERE ARE NOW ONLY MINORITIES, PLURAL FEMININITIES IN THE THROES OF BECOMING, OPENING UP THE POSSIBILITY OF NEW REFERENCE POINTS AND DESIRES UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THIS ISSUE IS, THEREFORE, DEDICATED TO THE POTENTIAL OF THIS CONSTANTLY EXPANDING CONSTELLATION OF WOMEN...A.L
F | L’ART DE VIVRE DU FIGARO
Sophie Kitching A PLUS D’UN TOUR SANS SON SAC
Article by Fabrice Gaignault
September 26, 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.
Elle aime affronter tard dans la nuit la blancheur de ses toiles, ce qui va bien avec l'effervescence perpétuelle de New York, sa cité d'adoption. Sophie Kitching peint dans son atelier de Brooklyn de grandes toiles abstraites où se lisent les mille et une vies de ses tremblements intérieurs. Côté face, l'exubérante sève diurne éclatant de mille couleurs vives où se laisse deviner une revigorante nature fleurie. Côté pile, des rêves nocturnes où, la aussi, une nature empreinte de mystère absorbe le visiteur au point que celui-ci ne peut détourner les yeux de ses éclats de couleur intrigants.Il était après tout évident que cette maîtresse de la légèreté et de la profondeur, de la sensibilité et de la subtilité soit élue par la célèbre maison de haute joaillerie et d'horlogerie italienne Bulgari pour célébrer ses 75 ans, à travers une collection capsule de sacs à tirage limité. « Fin 2022, confie la jeune femme, ils m'ont proposé de réaliser deux projets autour du sac Serpenti Forever. Cela a été un vrai challenge de travailler sur une si petite échelle, car j'ai l'habitude de peindre sur des grands formats. »
BULGARI
SERPENTI IN ART
SERPENTI FOREVER INVISIBLE GREEN | NOCTURNE TOP HANDLE
Sophie Kitching x Bulgari Serpenti Forever Invisible Green small top handle bag in flash diamond white calf leather with multicolored petals and leaves print envisioned by the artist, and emerald green nappa leather lining. Captivating snakehead magnetic closure in light gold-plated brass embellished with matching multicolored gemstone scales in the center and green malachite eyes. Limited Edition.
Sophie Kitching x Bulgari Serpenti Forever Nocturne small top handle bag in flash diamond white calf leather with multicolored nature-inspired prints on black background envisioned by the artist, and emerald green nappa leather lining. Captivating snakehead magnetic closure in light gold-plated brass embellished with matching multicolored gemstone and enamel scales and green malachite eyes. Limited Edition.
TOWN & COUNTRY
KAPOW ! THE HEROS ISSUE
Full page feature
November 2023
GALA
SPECIAL ACCESSORIES
Full page feature
October 2023
SPÉCIAL ACCESSOIRES: LES MUST HAVE DE LA RENTRÉE
Gala nº1582 / 5 October 2023
“SUPERMAR’CHIC”
“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.”
Photo: Émilie Erbin | Réalisation: Malika Slimani | Directrice de la Mode: Adèle Bréau
BULGARI
SERPENTI IN ART
July 2023
In celebration of the deep bond between the mythical snake and the world of art, Bulgari 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.”
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Photo Vincenzo Grillo
VOGUE SCANDINAVIA
Artist Sophie Kitching gives us the low-down
on her expressive Bulgari collaboration
Article by Josefin Forsberg
July 20, 2023
”Reimagining the iconic Serpenti snake for Bulgari to celebrate the 75 years of the motif, Sophie Kitching's artwork is tranformed into this season's most coveted limited edition handbag line. For the 'Serpenti Forever' capsule, Bulgari has tapped three contemporary artists, Sunwoo Kim, Zhou Li and Sophie Kitching for their painterly strokes of genius to reimagine its emblematic snake. Producing two iterations each, the capsule comprises six different designs each available in 75 copies. […]
While Kitching was given a total 'carte blanche', for her vision, she wanted to create a bag that would embrace and pay homage to Bulgari’s distinct identity. “Their unique approach to accessories is deeply rooted into the history of their fine Italian jewellery maison,” she says, and as such, the source of inspiration was infinite. “I had many different ideas based on my own art practice,” she says. “I felt strongly connected with their bold use of colour as a means of expression.”
Photo Matteo Carassale
Sunwoo Kim, Zhou Li et Sophie Kitching revisitent le sac Serpenti de Bulgari
19.07.2023
—Karen Rouach for L’Officiel
“Pour célébrer le lien profond entre le serpent mythique et le monde de l'art, Bulgari lance une collection capsule de sacs à main Serpenti Forever nés de la collaboration avec trois artistes contemporains, Sunwoo Kim, Zhou Li et Sophie Kitching. Chaque sac est proposé en série limitée de 75 pièces.”
SLITHERING IN STYLE: BULGARI CELEBRATES SERPENTI’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY WITH SERPENTI IN ART
07.07.2023
—Astrid Zulhaime for Grazia
“Designed by US-based artist Sophie Kitching, Opposing Forces is named after the dual nature of a snake and its propensity for transformation. Contrary to popular belief, serpents actually represent both good and evil so snake (affectionate) and snake (derogatory) both exist. Who would’ve thought?”
LE SOIR BELGIQUE
UN air de printemps chez nosbaum reding
Article by Jean-Marie Wynants
April 2023
“C’est tout aussi vrai du travail de Sophie Kitching qui […] fait surgir une multitude de petits éléments colorés sur des supports inhabituels. Elle utilise en effet des panneaux de polycarbonate et des miroirs sans tain pour y déposer d’innombrables petits coups de pinceaux donnant naissance à ce qui pourrait s’apparenter à des compositions florales ou végétales abstraites. Bien que ses traits soient, le plus souvent à peine esquissés, on ne peut s’empêcher d’y voir des feuilles tourbillonnant dans un jeu de lumière. Le matériau transparent mais brouillé du support invite par ailleurs à circuler, à changer de point de vue en se déplaçant pour mieux apprécier les diverses couches composant chacune de ses oeuvres.
Ici encore, rien n’est clair, rien n’est défini, tout flotte, s’étend, se superpose parfois jusqu’à donner une impression de jungle inextricable. Mais chaque oeuvre de Sophie Kitching capte le regard, invite à la rêverie, au sourire, à la mise en route de l’imaginaire du visiteur. Trois univers qui se complètent parfaitement et offrent au visiteur une échappée belle débordant de lumière, de couleurs, de plaisir et de légèreté.”
REVUE Point Contemporain
PORTRAIT D’ARTISTE: SOPHIE KITCHING
Point Contemporain #28
Mars-Avril-Mai 2023
Par Valérie Toubas & Daniel Guionnet
Photos Migle Staniskyte
[Kiosque]
ART OBSERVED
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.”
Silvana Editoriale
De leur temps (7)
Un regard sur des collections privées
2023
C’est le Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France qui accueille, en 2023, la septième édition de la triennale d’art contemporain De leur temps. Alors que le Frac de Dunkerque fête ses quarante ans – et par la même occasion l’engagement des politiques publiques en faveur de la décentralisation – la publication de ce volume lève le voile sur des passions privées, en permettant une compréhension plus vaste des liens que le public et le privé tissent autour et avec l’art. Avec plus de cent-vingt œuvres issues d’une soixantaine de collections, le volume souligne des écarts et des échos où s’estompent les choix particuliers. À l’affut de la nouveauté, les collectionneurs et collectionneuses nous invitent à naviguer au sein d’une large diversité d’expressions et à construire notre propre chemin.
FORBES
‘Champagne House Ruinart Boldly Steps Into The Future’
Text by Elva Ramirez
September 19th, 2022
“During a recent visit to New York, Frédéric Dufour, Ruinart President and CEO, said that he felt there was “optimism” in the air. […] The return to in-real-life events means there’s opportunities for Ruinart to have a brand presence at glitzy events, such as this past spring’s Frieze Art Fair and events at the New Museum in New York.”
Ruinart's hand-painted bottles, by artist Sophie Kitching, at a party held during Frieze New York.
RUINART
CRASH MAGAZINE
RUINART X FRIEZE NY ‘MAISON 1729’
Article by Crash
July 2022
During Frieze New York, the House of Ruinart presented Maison 1729, a retrospective exhibition with artists David Shrigley, Liu Bolin, Vik Muniz, Georgia Russell and Tomás Saraceno, and a residency by New York based artist Sophie Kitching. The gallery space, Studio 525 located on 24th Street in Chelsea, was reimagined to reflect Ruinart’s devotion to sustainability and the arts.
Ruinart invited Sophie Kitching to showcase her work and create a suite of unique Second Skin Magnum cases. Adorned with Japanese watercolor, crayons and gold leaf accents, the Limited Edition of Ruinart Blanc de Blancs and Champagne Rosé Magnums echoes the artist’s paintings and installations also presented as part of Maison 1729.
V MAGAZINE
RUINART CHAMPAGNE LAUNCHES MAISON 1729 AT FRIEZE NEW YORK
May 23rd, 2022
Text by Matthew Velasko
The Champagne house featured retrospectives of previous artist collaborations and a new limited-edition series at Studio 525 in NYC.
Documenting Ruinart's passion for the arts and sustainability, the space showcased previous collaborations with David Shrigley, Liu Bolin and Vik Muniz, among others, as well as a residency by artist Sophie Kitching. Too, Kitching presented a limited-edition series of items made through upcycling the 'Second Skin' cases that enclose Ruinart bottles. Transforming paper covers into one-of-a-kind coasters, the series encourages recycling and is an ode to the beauty of nature.
THE DESIGN RELEASE
House of Ruinart Presents Maison 1729
May 21st, 2022
Text by Leo Lei
The House of Ruinart is pleased to present Maison 1729 during the Frieze Art Fair in New York. From May 21-22, Studio 525 (located on West 24th Street), will be reimagined as a gallery and champagne lounge in partnership with Michelin-starred COTE. The space is a reflection of Ruinart’s devotion to sustainability and the arts through a retrospective of previous collaborations with David Shrigley, Liu Bolin and Vik Muniz, among others, as well as a residency by artist Sophie Kitching.
In addition, the artist will reveal a series of Second Skin Magnum cases that are adorned with Japanese watercolor and gold leaf accents. The limited-edition magnums of Ruinart Blanc de Blancs and Ruinart Rosé reimagined by Sophie Kitching echo the artist’s works exhibited at Maison 1729 and are exclusively available in the United States.
THE PRNET
Ruinart Presents Maison 1729 at Frieze New York
May 20th, 2022
Maison 1729, New York, NY
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ART OBSERVED
NEW YORK — GABRIEL OROZCO: “SPACETIME” ON VIEW 24 WEST 57 STREET, ROOM 305
Article by Sophie Kitching
May 16th, 2022
An array of artworks is on view: floating sculptures, abstract paintings, a black suitcase facing a plasticine ball, a tree adorned with paper disks, large prints, small models including detergent caps and yogurt lids, a shoebox on a shelf, flying boomerangs, and a Japanese scroll greet the viewer in the first two rooms. The gallery is intimate, and the experience is total. Gabriel Orozco’s ongoing project is a secret which spreads from word of mouth to fortunate visitors and passersby. The show encapsulates 30 years of work masterfully staged in these tight quarters.
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Le LITTÉRAIRE
Sophie Kitching, The English Garden (exposition)
Text by Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret
March 2022
Rêveries dans un jardin anglais
GALERIE ISABELLE GOUNOD
The English Garden
Press release, solo exhibition “The English Garden” at Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris
March 19th, 2022
Press Release
Exhibition Announcement: http://galerie-gounod.com/curatorstudiopro/newsletter/?id=471
La Galerie Isabelle Gounod est heureuse de présenter The English Garden, la troisième exposition personnelle de Sophie Kitching à la galerie. À travers ses peintures, installations et sculptures, Sophie Kitching s’attache à décomposer l’environnement pour n’en conserver que les formes essentielles.
Park Hyatt New York
Sophie Kitching: Carte Blanche in the Avenue Gallery
June 2021
Park Hyatt New York and Samuels Creative & Co. are pleased to present carte blanche, a solo exhibition by French-British artist Sophie Kitching. A keen observer of her environment, Kitching creates installations, paintings, and sculptures that offer condensed versions of naturalistic phenomena. For carte blanche, Kitching presents a selection of recent paintings on iridescent mylar and two-way mirror that further and refine her ongoing experimentation with surface material, light, and precise compositional imbalance.
The exhibition will be on view at Park Hyatt New York's ground-level Avenue Gallery through September 10, 2021.
Park Hyatt New York
Sophie Kitching: Carte Blanche
Curated by Samuels Creative & Co.
Park Hyatt New York
153 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
June 3 - September 10, 2021
NEW YORK – Park Hyatt New York and Samuels Creative & Co. are pleased to present carte blanche, a solo exhibition by French-British artist Sophie Kitching. A keen observer of her environment, Kitching creates installations, paintings, and sculptures that offer condensed versions of naturalistic phenomena. For carte blanche, Kitching presents a selection of recent paintings on iridescent mylar and two-way mirror that further and refine her ongoing experimentation with surface material, light, and precise compositional imbalance. The exhibition will be on view at Park Hyatt New York’s ground-level Avenue Gallery through September 10, 2021. As the first exhibit part of the hotel’s commitment to highlighting emerging artists in this space, Kitching’s impressive body of work aligns with Park Hyatt’s world-renowned artwork & design practices.
ARTVISIONS
Superficiel, Paris, Galerie Mansart. Du 21 avril au 20 juin 2021
Superficiel
Curated by Camille Frasca & Antoine Py
Galerie Mansart, Paris
April 21 - June 20, 2021.
CITIZEN K / HOMME
”Carnet d’un colletionneur”
By Fabien Vallérian
Hiver 2020-2021
Un amateur d’art nous conte le petit marché de son envahissante passion. Laissons fuser sept étincelles tricolores.
p.74-77
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Marian Goodman GALLERY
MULTIPLES, INC. 1965-1992
Edited by Dieter Schwarz
Published by Marian Goodman Gallery and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
January 2021
In-depth research project with art historian, curator, and museum director Dieter Schwarz on Multiples, Inc., the art publishing company founded by Marian Goodman and a few partners in 1965, and which Marian Goodman went on to direct before opening her eponymous gallery. During its existence, Multiples, Inc. published seminal editions with some of the most important artists of the 20th century over a period of almost three decades between 1966 and 1992. Multiples, Inc. published over 80 objects, over 800 prints with over 90 artists, including Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, etc.. in a broad variety of media ranging from objects, works on Plexiglas, jewelry, and furniture pieces to an extensive selection of prints, portfolios and artist books.
FEMMES d’ART
UNE ARTISTE / UNE OEUVRE
November 2020
Femmes d'Art invited me to present my series “Halcyon” in November 2020 as part of her series “UNE ARTISTE / UNE OEUVRE”.
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YELLOW OVER PURPLE
Les artistes Coups de Cœur de Marianne
May 2020
Interview aux Quatre Questions
“Une obsession soudaine pour certaines matières m’amène à commencer des collections inattendues.“
Emmenez-nous quelque part
“J’aimerais vous emmener dans le workshop de Ken à Chinatown dans lequel je vais faire mes néons depuis 5 ans. Le sol est jonché de câbles, de stickers, de chutes de métal, de découpes colorées, de transformateurs. Le lieu a l’air délabré, il faut entrer derrière un portail métallique souvent descendu, monter un escalier sinueux, pour retrouver Ken à côté de son aquarium aux poissons fluorescents. C’est avec lui que je suis en train de réaliser ma série Entrance, ensemble de portes « auto-portantes » à l’échelle de mon corps. Ce sont des éléments d’architectures mobiles et démontables, à l’aura saisissante, et qui personnifient l’idée même d’ouverture, de frontière et de (re-)commencement.”
ALURING
The art scene
March 2020
Text on my work by Clément Sauvoy
”[…] la démarche artistique de Sophie Kitching nous parle de situations d’hospitalité, de voyages immobiles mais aussi d’effets vibratiles rejouant la mécanique du souvenir. Le regardeur appréciera ses travaux s’appuyant sur les préceptes d’une phénoménologie de la perception lui faisant voir aussi bien le miroitement de l’onde que le crépitement des frondaisons. Mais aussi cette observation analytique de l'environnement débouchant sur des clairières de nuances et des rêveries translucides. On aime tout particulièrement cette pratique faisant souvent écho à une poétique bachelardienne guidant la rétine vers des profondeurs ambiguës et des ailleurs nous rappelant - selon les mots de Chateaubriand - que chaque homme porte en lui un monde composé de tout ce qu’il a vu et aimé et où il rentre sans cesse, alors même qu’il parcourt et semble habiter un monde étranger !”
CATALOGUE RÉVÉLATIONS EMERIGE
5 ANS — 58 ARTISTES
Available at Librairie sans titre, Voltaire
ART OBSERVED
MARSEILLE – KIOSK’S MARSEILLE ART SPACE AT CITÉ RADIEUSE, A RUNNING CURATORIAL PROJECT OPEN NOW
October 9th, 2019
Text by Daniel Creahan
For their first string of shows, the group has invited artists Sophie Kitching, Kendall Glover, and Elizabeth Kley, among others, to show work in the space at Cité Radieuse. Kitching’s work, which just closed at the space, is of particular note. The artist’s incorporation of common materials, from her WIN OW SE RIES, which used old vinyl letter displays as a way to explore ruptures and aestheticized language, to her French Window a small-scale reworking of two-way mirrors and architectural principles to explore light and space, allow for a renewed way of seeing the world around us.
GALERIE VASTE HORIZON
SOPHIE KITCHING’S ‘INVISIBLE GREEN’
Press release, solo exhibition at Galerie Vaste Horizon, Arles
September 2019
Press Release
Exhibition Announcement: https://www.vastehorizon.com/galerievastehorizon/2019/9/10/sophie-kitching-invisible-green
Design by Corey Upton
KIOSK
SOPHIE KITCHING’S ‘WINDOW SERIES’
Text by Alisa Grifo
“A gentle falling in love. A floating down a stream. An embrace. A calm. A sway.
Sophie Kitching's work to me is about sensations. She sees and feels them, takes them and then transmits the feeling through objects, a painting, a cluster of things, a neon, confetti falling. It’s nothing I can firmly nail down, it’s just present. It’s based on illusion.
There was smoke and there are mirrors...” […]
August 2019
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Frank Perrin, Panoramic Obsessions (Foot) (2018)
CRASH MAGAZINE
FLOWER POWER AT LA LOUISIANE
Article by Crash, photos by Frank Perrin
”The Hotel La Louisiane, a true staple in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area in Paris, has seen it all. From the jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s – Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Lester Young, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon – to the great thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and film directors like Leos Carax, Louis Malle, Bertrand Tavernier among others, the mythical building has inspired and nourished the story of the post-war Paris. […]”
June 2019
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DUST DISTILLER
L’imaginaire d’après Sophie Kitching
Article by Alexandre Castant
‘L’imaginaire d’après Sophie Kitching’
“Le processus analytique de création – dispositif, esthétique des matériaux, construction, poïétique – offre une première approche cohérente de l’exposition de Sophie Kitching, artiste née en 1990, qui vit et travaille entre New York et Paris, et, dont le travail est présenté à la galerie Isabelle Gounod. […]”
May 2019
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NUMÉRO
À Paris, la peinture bouge encore (en 5 expositions)
Article by Matthieu Jacquet
‘Les rêveries translucides de Sophie Kitching’ at Galerie Isabelle Gounod
May 2019
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“Plongeon dans une toute autre forme d’abstraction à la galerie Isabelle Gounod, qui présente sa première exposition monographique de Sophie Kitching jusqu’à la fin mai. Toiles, vitres de verre, voilages ou miroirs, autant de supports sur lesquels la peinture poétique de cette jeune Française vient se déployer. […]”
© Rebecca Fanuele
SIGHT UNSEEN
SATURDAY SELECTS — Week of April 29, 2019
Article by Dana Covit
The work of artist Sophie Kitching is up at Isabelle Gounod Gallery in Paris. No ordinary canvases here — Kitching instead uses polycarbonate and mirrored acrylic as dynamic painting surfaces to engage and reflect our immediate environment. (Photos ©Rebecca Fanuele)
May 2019
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© Joséphine Dupuy-Chavanat
ATELIER DE Sèvres
Rencontre : Sophie Kitching, diplômée des Arts Déco et artiste confirmée
Diplômée en 2014 de l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs - Paris, Sophie Kitching vit aujourd’hui à New-York et a son atelier dans l’East Village, en tant que Project Space Studio Artist de « Painting Space 122 », pionnier de la scène new-yorkaise…
April 2019
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GALERIE ISABELLE GOUNOD
Press release, solo exhibition at Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris
Text by Thibault Bissirier
April 2019
Press Release
Collaboration Announcement: http://galerie-gounod.com/curatorstudiopro/newsletter/?id=324
BUBENBERG
ANNE MONIER PRÉSENTE SOPHIE KITCHING
Text by Anne Monier for Morceaux Choisis 2018
December 2018
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MUSÉE de Vence
PICASSO ET LES CONTEMPORAINS
Eloge de la Fabrique
Exhibition catalogue, Musée de Vence, 2018
Work included in Camille Frasca’s essay:
“Entre « Bricologie » et nouvel expressionnisme: L’Héritage Picassien parmi trois exemples de jeunes artistes contemporains”
Boris Chouvellon
Sophie Kitching
Célia Nkala
May 2018
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LIENART
Nuits Américaines
Sophie Kitching | Maison de Chateaubriand
Monographic catalogue, Lienart, 2017
19,5 x 26 cm, 112 pages, 60 illustrations, broché
18 €
ISBN : 978-2-35906-230-4
Available at Maison de Chateaubriand and in bookshops in Paris : Musée du Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Ecume des Pages, Gibert Joseph, Librairie La Compagnie, Librairie Lardanchet...
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Bubenberg
Press release on 'Confinium - perspectives on landscape and history' at Bubenberg, Paris
by Robin Buchholz
June 2018
online article : https://www.artsy.net/show/bubenberg-confinium-perspectives-on-landscape-and-history
GRAPHEM
Press release on 'Découvrir, Recouvrir' at Galerie Graphem, Paris
by Henri Guette
May 2018
online article : http://www.galerie-graphem.com/expositions-2018.php
Art Observed
Article on '-46,08°' at fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main
by Alice Gustson
photos by Robert Schittko
March 2018
online article : http://artobserved.com/2018/03/frankfurt-am-main-4608-at-fffriedrich-through-march-2nd-2018/
THE ARTICLE
Article on '-46,08°' at fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main
by Maximilian Wahlich
photos by Robert Schittko
February 2018
online article : https://thearticle.hypotheses.org/846
VALLEE DE LA CULTURE
Exhibition portfolio "Les Nuits Américaines de Chateaubriand"
by Didier Lamare
photos © Olivier Ravoire/CD92
Revue Vallée de la Culture n°16
Winter 2017/2018
BOUM!BANG!
Artist Portrait "Sophie Kitching, L'art d'habiter un lieu"
by Pauline Lisowski
1 February 2018
online article : https://www.boumbang.com/sophie-kitching/
ARTPRESS
Review on "Nuits Américaines"
by Louise-Amalia Fischer
photos © Alexandre Lebrun
21 Décembre 2017
online article : https://www.artpress.com/2017/12/21/sophie-kitching-nuits-americaines/
BUBENBERG
Morceaux Choisis
Collective exhibition with multiple curators
62 rue François Ier, Paris
December 2017
Text by Joséphine Dupuy-Chavanat
CONNAISSANCE DE L'ART CONTEMPORAIN
Educational Dossier
"Nuits Américaines | Sophie Kitching | Maison de Chateaubriand"
Compiled by Connaissance de l'art Contemporain
October 2017
HDS MAG
Artist Portrait "L'Amérique de Sophie Kitching"
by Didier Lamare
photo © Olivier Ravoire/CD92
HDS Mag n°55
September-October 2017
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REVUE POINT CONTEMPORAIN
Front cover & Artist Portrait
Revue Point Contemporain #3
December-January-February 2017
ARNAUD DESCHIN GALERIE
Room without a view
curated by Camille Frasca & Antoine Py
Arnaud Deschin Galerie, Paris
April-May 2017
Press Release by Camille Frasca & Antoine Py
April 2017
POINT CONTEMPORAIN
[EN DIRECT] SOPHIE KITCHING, ROOM WITHOUT A VIEW, ARNAUD DESCHIN GALERIE PARIS
Room without a view
Arnaud Deschin Galerie, Paris
April-May 2017
Point Contemporain
online article : http://pointcontemporain.com/direct-sophie-kitching-room-without-a-view-arnaud-deschin-galerie-paris
April 2017
MOUVEMENT
Carte blanche Sophie Kitching
8-page Portfolio
Curated by Alain Berland
Mouvement
'Crash Test' n°87
January-February 2017
BOURSE REVELATIONS EMERIGE
Une Inconnue d'avance
curated by Gaël Charbau
Villa Emerige, Paris, 2016
Exhibition catalogue
Les Editions Particules
November 2016
POINT CONTEMPORAIN
[FOCUS] SOPHIE KITCHING, DAY 1/2 – 2/2
Et quelque(s) espacement(s)
Galerie Melanie Rio, Paris,
January-February 2016
Point Contemporain
online article : http://pointcontemporain.com/sophie-kitching-day-12-22
January 2016
Appareiller
Appareiller — une nouvelle génération d'artistes
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
curated by Catherine Strasser, Marc Partouche
Exhibition catalogue
EnsAD
January 2017
ET QUELQUE(S) Espacement(s)
Et quelque(s) espacement(s)
Galerie melanie Rio, Paris, 2016
curated by Emilie Duserre, Lucie Le Bouder, Quentin Lefranc
Press Release
January 2016
THESIS
Le spectateur à l'œuvre
Mémoire by Sophie Kitching
Directed by Marc Thébault
EnsAD, Paris
2013
Congratulations of the Jury