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About

Sophia studied visual communication and illustration at the University of the Arts Berlin. During her studies she spent four months at Hunter’s College in New York City and one year at Liverpool’s School of Art and Design. For the last couple of years she has worked for a wide range of international clients.

In 2018, she began teaching illustration at Wismar University of Applied Sciences, where she has been a professor of illustration and drawing since 2022.

Sophia lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Clients

The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, NZZ, Crafts Magazine, McKinsey Quarterly, The Drawbridge, JazzFest Berlin, Jewish Museum Berlin, Oxford American, Fantoche, taz, Financial Times, Der Freitag, Hohe Luft, LE MONDE diplomatique, Slanted, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Büchergilde Gutenberg, Das Magazin, Hamburg: Das Magazin aus der Metropole, Rockport Publishers, Nido, MAGAZIN, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Canicola, Strapazin, Le Nouvel Attila, Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, Black Optical, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Städel Museum Frankfurt, United Arrows, C.H.Beck, dtv, Alba Editorial, Suhrkamp, Quatro Cinco Um, Sesc Pompeia

Books

  • Hannah Arendt, Little People Big Dreams, Alba Editorial, 2021
  • Hannah Arendt, Little People Big Dreams, Insel Verlag, 2020
  • Die Geschichte der Welt, Ewald Frie, C.H.Beck, 2017
  • Der Mann auf dem Hochrad, Uwe Timm, dtv, 2017
  • Hansel e Gretel, Canicola Edizioni, 2017
  • L'Homme Au Grand-Bi, Uwe Timm, Le Nouvel Attila, 2016
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rockport Publishers, 2014
  • Die Fliege, Die Tollen Hefte 40, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 2013
  • Hühner, Porno, Schlägerei, Avant-Verlag, 2012

Teaching

  • since 2022 professor for illustration and drawing at the University of the applied sciences, Wismar, Germany
  • 2019–2022 lecturer for illustration and drawing at the University of the applied sciences, Wismar, Germany
  • 2018–2019 teaching illustration at the University of the applied sciences, Wismar, Germany

Publications

  • Spring #20 Togetherness, 2023
  • American Illustration 26, 28, 34, 3x3 Annual No. 4, 6, 12
  • Das Beste von Allen, Aladin Verlag, 2015
  • SPRING 12 Privée (2015), SPRING 11 Wunder (2014), SPRING 10 ABC Of Tragedy (2013), SPRING 9 Reineke F. (2012), SPRING 8 Family Silver (2011), SPRING 7 Happy Ending (2010)
  • The Where, the Why, and the How, Chronicle Books (2012)
  • The Exquisite Book, Chronicle Books (2010)

Features, Interviews

Talks, Conferences, Workshops

  • Conference „Finding images for invisible – hard to talk about – topics“ Panel Panel, Literaturhaus Munich, February 2023
  • Baba Kamo Festival, Valencia, Spain, December 2022
  • Lecture and workshop with master's students at LUCA School of Arts Antwerp, November 2017
  • Different workshops "Hansel e Gretel" with children during the Sardinian Festival Tuttestorie, October 2017
  • Workshop "Hansel e Gretel" with children during Bologna Childen's Book Fair, 2017
  • Talk at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2016
  • Pathography and Graphic Medicine, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, Freie Universität Berlin, 2016
  • Living Future: Shared Societies, live conference drawing, Berlin and Tel Aviv, 2015