Judith Sönnicken (*1981, DE) is an audiovisual artist, quantum athlete, and mentor for multidimensional consciousness. Her practice implies objects, installations, VR, performance, software, 1-1 sessions, guided meditation, and workshops on dimensions and time. She is building an interspecies social media software called hyperobjects.io. In 2020-23 she curated and hosted the Hyperobject Virtual Lab in which artists co-created with hyperobjects to activate different grid points on Earth. Her new work complex is called Quantum Athletics, a living breathing matrix for multidimensional consciousness. Judith’s artistic and curatorial work has been shown at Museu Geológico de Portugal/Lisbon, Green Art Gallery/Dubai, Spinnerei/Leipzig, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture/Yukon, The Institute of Jamais Vu/London, Cirrus Gallery/Los Angeles, Martin Janda gallery/ Vienna, Crane Arts Center/Philadelphia, NAVEL/Los Angeles, documenta14/Athens and The Eighth Climate/11th Gwangju Biennial.
Image credit: Sally Ghaly
(*1981 / DE)
capricorn sun + moon
libra rising
3/5 generator
Training
2001-2002
Textile Design / École supérieure de la mode / Berlin DE + Paris FR
2003-2008
Fine Arts / University of the Arts / Berlin DE
2006-2007
Fine Arts / Universidade de Lisboa / Lisbon PT
2010
MA Fine Arts / University of Arts / Berlin DE
2012
Zen Meditation / Center for Korean Seon Buddhism / Berlin DE
2014
Zen Meditation / Shunkoin Temple / Kyoto JP
2016
Usui Reiki Master Initiation / Berlin DE
2018
User experience + Interface design / Springboard / San Francisco US
2019
Feng Shui / Institute for Feng Shui Germany / Freiburg DE
Self-Realization Fellowship / The Mother Center / Los Angeles US
2022 - 2024
Sun Song Flower Essence Therapy / Joshua Tree / US
2024 - ongoing
SSEER Mystery School / Los Angeles / US
Quantum Athletics
2024
How to collapse time / TNOC / virtual
2023
Out of Office Retreat / Be Agafay / Agafay Desert MA
2019
Studio Goldschmidt/ Rutherford / New York US
Hyperslow / Los Angeles US
NAVEL / Los Angeles US
2018
La Pouquelaye de Faldouet / Arthouse Jersey UK
hyperobjects.io
2022
Hyperobject Virtual Lab II / virtual
The Nature of Cities / New York US
2021
Hyperobject Virtual Lab / virtual
2020
Our Networks, Toronto CA
Solo shows
2013
Preshivers / Museu Geológico de Portugal / Lisbon PT
2011
Judith Sönnicken: Drawings / Conartist Gallery / New York US
Group + duo shows
2021
Permanence & Evanescence / Vouzela Municipal Museum / Vouzela PT
2020
Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck: All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset / Galerie Martin Janda / Vienna AT
2019
UN/NATURAL SURROGATES / Online & Public Art Lab / Berlin DE
Unsettling Time / E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center / Nashville US
Vanja Smiljanic: Plant Rant: Mea Culpa on Chlorophyll Sling / Gemeinde Köln / Cologne DE
Radical Immersions / Watermans Art Centre / London UK
Paradise Found / Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche / Berlin DE
Befriending Hyperobjects@The Meeting room / NAVEL / Los Angeles US
2017
Distance ≠ Time / Icebox Projects / Philadelphia US
RESET III and VIRTUAL REALITY / Priska Pasquer / Cologne DE
KIOSK KSOIK / documenta 14 / Athens GR
Sonja Gerdes: Pie of Trouble. Let's Hang. Air for Free. Uncertainty. Absurdity. You look at it but it doesn't exist. Anahata. Vishuda rising. Unpredictability. / Cirrus gallery / Los Angeles US
Berlin Klondyke / UGM Studio / Maribor SI
2016
The Eighth Climate / 11th Gwangju Biennale / KR
MU / w Tomoko Sauvage / Salon de Musique / Paris FR
2015
Leipziger Editionen / Kulturforum Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock DE
Physiopolis / L’île de Platais FR
The 1st Berlin Edition / Salon Dahlmann / Berlin DE
2014
Leipziger Editionen / Wiensowski & Harbord / Berlin DE
9½ Sculpture Biennale / Platz der Freundschaft / Berlin DE
Nicht Da/Da / Moe Contemporary / Vienna AT
Wow Hybrids / Institute of Jamais Vu / London UK
2013
Statue Of Limitation / Green Art Gallery / Dubai UAE
Thermodynamic Twilight / Galeria Monumental / Lisbon PT
It’s Already Tomorrow / Kreuzberg Pavillon / Berlin DE
Tranceatlantic Cubizm / Boutique / Cologne DE
Berlin Klondyke / Werkschau / Spinnerei Leipzig DE
2012
Berlin Klondyke / Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein / Pfaffenhofen DE
No Ok / Stadtbad Oderberger / Berlin DE
Ballungsraum / Kosmetiksalon Babette / Berlin DE
Stay where the pepper grows / Autocenter Berlin DE
2011
Moraltarantula #5 / Zollamt- Oberhafen / Hamburg DE
Berlin Klondyke / Art Center Los Angeles US
Leise kriselt der S.... / Lisi Hämmerle Gallery / Bregenz AT
Von Robotern die Bilder bauen / Vienna Art Week / AT
Berlin Klondyke / Klondike Institute of Art and Culture / Yukon CA
2010
Wir können auch anders / Bourouina Gallery / Berlin DE
Und dann Und dann Nebul / Ringstube / Mainz DE
2008
Contemporary Puzzle / Mille d’ Air Gallery / Berlin DE
30 Gegen 3000000 / Kulturforum Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock DE
Plinque / Kettenbrückengasse 8 / Vienna AT
Something to answer for / Wiesnowski & Harbord / Berlin DE
Ausgebrannt / Forgotten Bar / Berlin DE
Festivals + screenings
2017
Time Camp 001 / Crane Arts Center / Philadelphia US
2008
Schaurauschen / Ballhaus Ost / Berlin DE
Die Fünfte Ecke - Formen Der Erweiterung / Uferhalle Berlin DE
Curating
2019
Befriending Hyperobjects / NAVEL / Los Angeles US
2013
Thermodynamic Twilight / Galeria Monumental / Lisbon PT
Tranceatlantic Cubizm / Boutique / Cologne DE
Residencies
2023
Every seed is a spaceship / Buchau DE
2022
Casa Tagumerche / La Gomera ES
2019
Binaural Nodar / Human animal expressions in rural context / Lafões PT
NAVEL / Los Angeles US
2018
Arthouse Jersey / Chateau Vermont UK
2016
Flaneur Magazine / Moscow RU
2015
Sitterwerk / St. Gallen CH
2012
The Barber Shop / Lisbon PT
Press + podcasts
2019
Digital America #13 / “Judith Sönnicken, the fearless leader we never knew we needed: a response to Google Gardening” by Hannah Grow / Richmond US
Sound Science podcast #5: The Left-brain vs. the Right-brain / Dublab US
2018
Becoming the other - a self guide / AEther BG + Soft Power Palace DE
2016
The Museum of Delta / Flaneur Magazine #6 / Moscow RU
2015
Vogue France / 360° Collaboration with Jérémy Tarian / Paris FR
2014
Mousse Magazine / Statue of Limitation / Milan IT
2013
TimeOut Dubai / The politics of deception / Dubai UAE
Multispy Contemporary / Jérémy Tarian / Paris FR
2012
Pascal Richter # Club Tropicana / Berlin DE
Publications
2023
3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices - Untangling Another Dimension. Rebecca Hackemann / Intellect books / University of Chicago Press
2014
Tranceatlantic Cubizm / Thermodynamic Twilight PT/DE
Gratitude to
