Sophie von Hellerman is a young German artist working in London. The title of the painting Christo Paffgen is the real name of Warhol protégé, Velvet Underground vocalist, and unrepentant lifelong heroin addict Nico. The 1960s icon was infamous for her sexual endeavours and drug abuse. Rather than capture Nico in all her excess von Hellermann chooses to depict her before she lost her beauty, interest in life, and eventually her death in relative obscurity, and mystery, in Ibiza in 1988.

BIOGRAPHY

1975 Born in Munich
Lives and works in London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
Sophie von Hellermann, Greene Naftali, New York

2004
On The Ground, Vilma Gold, London
Sophie von Hellermann, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris
Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Sophie von Hellermann, Vacio 9, Madrid

2003
Sophie von Hellermann, Jablonka Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne

2001
Sophie von Hellermann, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
Vusering Hites, Vilma Gold, London
Saatchi Gallery Presents Sophie von Hellermann, London
Sophie von Hellermann, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Group show, Linn Luhn Jablonka, Cologne
Clarke & McDevitt present, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin POST MoDERN, Greene Naftali, New York

2004
The Drawing Project, Vamiali's, Athens
Group Show, Marcc Fox, Los Angeles
Mothers, Oh! Art, London
Britannia Works, British Council, Athens

2003
Art and Mountains, The Alpine Club, London
Hydrophobia, Henry Peacock Gallery, London

2002
Dear Painter, paint me..., Pompidou Centre, Paris
Group show, Lombard Freid, New York
Group show, Artagents Gallery Hamburg
Group show, Ghislaine Hussenot Gallery, Paris
Mediated Cooperation, collaboration with Johannes Maier
OBERWELTE, Stuttgart, Germany
We all Love... The Mission, London
Electric Show, The Great Eastern Hotel, London

2000
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

1999
Grup show , Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Weltausstellung 99/robolove, koelnerstrasse, Dusseldorf
Troublespot.Painting, curated by Luc Tymans and Narcisse Tordoir
NICC and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
von Hellermann , Gerhard Richter, Chris Ofili, Paul Morrison, Michael Raedecker, Luc Tymans, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Marlene Dumas, Kippenberger, Laurence Weiner,Felix Gonzalez-torres, Elsworth Kelly, Robert Ryman, Vincent Geyskens, Ugo Rondinone, John Currin, Robert Gober and Andy Warhol
Conclusion:
At first glance Thomas Helbig’s sculptures appear to be futuristic ruins; bizarre and broken finds hinting at some remote gothic civilisation, glorifying its defunct authority.

Vilma Gold is pleased to present, On the Ground, by Sophie von Hellermann, the inaugural exhibition at new premises on Vyner Street, London E2. Staged prior to the gallery's formal renovation, On the Ground weaves new paintings into the existing fabric of the semi-derelict building.

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Read more information about Sophie von Hellerman paintaings and ehibitions at
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/sophie_hellermann.htm