Sophie Hammer
Sophie Hammer is mentee of Franz Thalmair.
Sophie Hammer lives and works in Vienna and Zurich. She studied Experimental Design at the University of Art and Design Linz, Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, and Sculpture and Spatial Strategies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Hammer works with sculptural, installation-based, and object-oriented forms. Many of her works begin with existing materials and artefacts that have already passed through other contexts. Through processes such as casting, reconstruction, material translation, and reproduction, she engages with objects drawn from interiors, collections, archives, and everyday environments.
Recurring motifs in her practice include replicas, models, doubles, and other forms of conditional authenticity. Objects appear within shifting categories and systems of value: sculptures resemble furniture, decoration becomes display, and models assume the role of originals. Her work traces the transformations that objects undergo as they circulate through different social and material contexts.
Her work has been exhibited, among other venues, at Raum D – MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Galerie 5020 in Salzburg, and the Landesgalerie Linz. In 2018, she received the Soroptimist Women's Art Prize. From 2025 to 2028, her work It's been ages (I can barely recognize you) will be realised as a public art commission for the redevelopment of the Südtiroler Siedlung housing estate in Salzburg.