SOPHIA FRESE
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
THE LORAX
curated by Charles Moore
New York
September 2025
Opening during New York Art Week
The Lorax is an exhibition exploring environmental sustainability and stewardship through imaginative and thought-provoking perspectives. Inspired by Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, this show seeks to spark conversations about climate change, deforestation, and ecological responsibility using vibrant, accessible, and impactful visual narratives.
The Factor LIC
30 - 30 47 Avenue LIC
New York, USA
The LIC-A Art Space
September 2025
THIN REALM
Mexico Art Week
3-9. February 2025
Presented during Mexico City Art Week 2025, Thin Realm opens a portal into a dynamic continuum where form dissolves into possibility and meaning remains in flux. Drawing on the Celtic concept of the Thin Realm, quantum physics, and Latin American magical realism, Frese’s works inhabit a liminal space where the tangible and ethereal brush against each other. In this fragile, transformative threshold, states of genesis and disembodiment, pain and pleasure, are in constant interplay—each piece a testament to disintegration as a gateway to new potentiality.
Casa Lü
February 2025.
Mariano Albasolo 157
Tlalpan, Mexico City
Art Week Mexico City
Abstraction becomes a continuum in Thin Realm, where form dissolves into possibility and existence hovers between genesis and disintegration. Frese’s work draws from Celtic and Latin American traditions to evoke a porous boundary between worlds — a space where pain and pleasure, life and death, reality and myth coexist in fragile interplay. Each piece invites us to glimpse a shifting realm just beyond the veil.
CASA LÜ
February 2025
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Mariana Albasolo 157, Tlalpan, Mexico City
BITE ME
curated by Patrick Silve
Casa Hotbook
1.11.2024 - 21.1.2025
In BITE ME, Sophia Frese exhibited two works — Bite Me and Rowing in Eden — that embody a vibrant, tactile physicality. Drawing upon the ecstatic poetics of Emily Dickinson and Rumi, Frese’s paintings pursue a raw intensity not through violence, but through a profound sensual bliss — a luminous exploration of color as living language. Shown alongside Luca Bray’s meditative abstractions, her works formed part of a charged, rhythmic dialogue within Casa Hotbook’s intersection of contemporary art and design
CASA HOTBOOK
November 2024 -
February 2025
Calle Monte Everest 760 - 5, Lomas De Chapultepec, 11000 Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City
SHADOW WORK
Kunstverein Tiergarten
In collaboration with Kunstverein Tiergarten, Frese presented Shadow Work, a series of works on paper and canvas that are based on Carl Jung's idea of the shadow, both as potential and repressed parts of the self and collective, as those whom we lost and those who we still might become. Her paintings captured the intangible residues of experience — shadows as both refuge and rupture.
Ortstermin 2024
Studio Flux
GAMMA RAYS
Site Specific Installation
Installed within Berlin’s historic Körnerpark, Frese’s polyptych Gamma Rays visualized meditative brain frequencies through sweeping layers of color and form. Inspired by the oscillations measured during states of deep meditation, the work explored the porous threshold between inner calm and external nature, evoking the silent transference of energy between consciousness and organic matter.
June 2024
BITCH, I'M A MONSTER
In this electrifying group show with the painters’ collective FRANK*, Frese unleashed an international Mardigras of Monsters, of color and form. Her work interrogated the concept of monstrosity as a boder crossing notion that haunts and delights. Her figures are hybrid beings that perform a tight-rope dance between divinity and the demonic, the monstrous and deeply human. The 4 meter polyptych was paired with three dimensional masks that allowed onlookers to become a part of the carnival and participate in the show.
Interactive Polyptich
June 2023
White Rabbit
FOLLY/MORIA
Systems of Domination are Now Self-Cannibalizing
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Systems of Domination Are Now Self-Cannibalizing
Sophia Frese’s solo exhibition brings together two monumental triptychs and a sculptural installation to explore the Mediterranean as a contested space of transit, desire, and erasure. Folly captures the seductive luminosity of the sea’s surface, while Moria abstracts the material aftermath of displacement. Across these works, systems of power are seen turning inward, destabilizing the very structures they once upheld.
White Rabbit
Juni 2022 -
Juli 2022
Karl-Marx-Str. 66
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12043 Berlin
