Sophie Blet lives and works between Marseille and Bremen.
After studying Art History, she continued her education at the Pavillon Bosio – École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques de Monaco (MfA / Art and Scenography) and a postgraduate programme, before joining the HGB, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig (guest master's student and Post-Diploma).
Her artistic practice unfolds through a range of media and is sustained by ongoing dialogues with other researchers, in which the apprehension of reality shifts from a perceived space toward an uncertain, still indeterminate one.
Her work has been presented in museums, contemporary art centres, universities, research laboratories, independent art spaces and international residency programmes, including the Galerie Michel Journiac at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne, the Centre d'art La Graineterie, the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), the festival L'Art dans les Chapelles, Galerie Bipolar (Leipzig), ahah (Paris), the Nice Observatory, the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the FRAC Sud – Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (Marseille), and the HBKsaar Galerie (Saarbrücken). Her practice has also been supported through several awards and international research residencies.
Her first monograph was published in 2024 and includes a series of conversations and critical essays that examine and contextualise her artistic practice.
She is currently pursuing a binational PhD jointly conducted at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (Germany) and the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille – INSEAMM (France), under the supervision of Mona Schieren and Vanessa Brito. Entitled Entropic Landscapes and States of Disorientation: On the Entanglements of Ecological Psychic States and Space, her research examines the ecological crisis as a new anthropological turning point, exploring its perceptual, affective and aesthetic implications.
EDUCATION AND TEACHING
2018 Meisterschüler HGB Leipzig, (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig), Class Joachim Blank, DE
2017 MFA, Master Art&Scenography, With distinction from the jury, Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, MO
2016 HGB Leipzig, Class Joachim Blank, Space and Installation, DE
2015 BA Fine Arts, With distinction from the jury, Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, MO
2006 Art History studies - diploma of guide lecturer, Nice, FR
Since Regular teaching within art schools and higher art education institutions (Pavillon Bosio, Monaco, ESBAN Nîmes, Sorbonne, Paris 1, CPI 2018 Sculpture, Beaux-arts de Marseille...)
SOLO SHOWS / DUO SHOW
2026 Il se pourrait que cette image demeure, FRAC Sud – Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Regional Collection of Contemporary Art), Espace Muséal, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France.
| 2025 | Leaving ony the skin of things, La Traverse, Marseille, FR |
| 2024 | Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible, L’Ahah, Paris, curated by Diane Der Markarian, FR |
| 2023 | Du muable, Salon du Salon, Marseille, Art-o-rama Hlm, FR |
| 2023 | Becomings: detours and turning points, residency Huet Repolt, Bruxelles, BE |
| 2023 | Contre-lumière, Contre-paupière, L’Art dans les chapelles, Bretagne, cur. by Eric Suchère, FR |
| 2022 | Une coupure dans le continu, galerie 22,48m2, Paris, duo show with Jean-Baptiste Caron, FR |
| 2022 | A present projecting its reflection into the possible, Printemps de l’art contemporain, Marseille, FR |
| 2021 | Est-ce à dire que la vision du monde en 3 dimensions soit inutile ? Dos Mares, Marseille, FR |
| 2016 | Le Grand Méridien, Observatory of Nice, FR |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2026 | Geométries du Vivant, cur. Domitille Dorgeval, Topographie de l’art, Paris, FR |
| 2025 | MAD, Multiple art days, More Project, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR |
| 2025 | Corps collectifs, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, curated by Anne-Lou Vicente, FR |
| 2024 | Liquidation totale, Pal Project, curated by Andy Rankin / Oblivion Collective, FR |
| 2024 | He needs me, 30 years of the Collection Veys, Brussels, BE |
| 2024 | Rouvrir le Monde, Château de Servières, Marseille, curated by Martine Robin, FR |
| 2023 | La réciproque, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, curated by Henri Guette, FR |
| 2021 | CosmicomiX, galerie Art-Cade, Marseille, curated by Jean-Marc Lévy Leblond, FR |
| 2021 | Elementa II, Observatory of Nice, Circa-ip, FR |
| 2020 | Biennal Art Press, MAMC+, Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, |
| Saint Etienne, curated by Etienne Hatt, Romain Mathieu, FR | |
| 2020 | 13th Biennal Young creation, Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR |
| 2020 | Objets inanimés, Villa Henry, curated by Isabelle Pellegrini, Nice, FR |
| 2019 | La Relève, as part of the festival Parallèle, Galerie H.O, Marseille, FR |
| 2018 | 8th young creation prize, Saint Remy, FR |
| 2019 | Host Call, Open School Gallery, Beaux-Arts of Nantes, FR |
| 2017 | No man is an island, jardin exotique, Monaco, curated by Mathilde Expose, MO |
| 2017 | U + (x + y + z) = U, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-provence, FR |
| 2016 | 100 years after the Ready Made, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, DE |
| 2016 | Troja2, with Remy Zaugg, Galerie Bipolar, Leipzig, DE |
| 2016 | Artagon II, exhibition of the finalist, Passage de Retz, cur. Keimis Henni et Anna Labouze, Paris, FR |
GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS
| 2026 | Il se pourrait que cette image demeure, FRAC PACA, research and exhibition residency, Parc des pré-alpes d’azur, FR |
| 2025 | Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland / WSL (Federal Institude for Forest), Zürich, CH |
| 2025 | Solastalgia, Research residency, Château de Servières/Saint Gabriel Social Center, Marseille, FR |
| 2024 | Collection Lambert, Research Residency, Avignon, FR |
| 2024 | Research grant ADAGP : Spaces of disorientation |
| 2023 | Residency Huet Repolt, research and production residency, Bruxelles, BE |
| 2022 | Individual Creative Grant, D.R.A.C PACA : Objects as Triggers / Cosmological Spaces |
| 2022 | Research residency, Les Capucins Art Center, Embrun, FR |
| 2022 | Research residency, with Nathalie Desmet, Prieuré de Ganagobie, FR |
| 2021 | Dos Mares, production residency, Marseille, FR |
| 2021 | CNAP grant (National Centre for Visual Arts grant) |
| 2021 | Research residency, Observatory of Nice, FR |
| 2019 | Laureate of the Host Call, Le Voyage à Nantes Prize, FR |
| 2018 | Resident at the Spinnerei (artist studios) Leipzig, DE |
| 2017 | Resident at Quai Antoine 1er, Atelier Grant, Cultural dep., Monaco, MO |
| 2017 | Monaco Project for the Arts Award |
| 2015 | Resident at the Côte d’Azur Observatory, Nice, FR |
PERFORMANCES / INTERVIEWS / POETRY
| 2023 | Du muable, in duo with Sophie Lapalu, Salon du Salon, Marseille, FR |
| 2022 | A detour in the continious, gallery 22,48m², Paris, FR |
| 2021 | Where maybe time does not exist, Galerie Art-Cade, Marseille, FR |
| 2021 | Nothing says time will always exist, conversation with Jan-Philipp Frühsorge, FR |
| 2021 | Interview with Etienne Klein, physician et philosopher, FR |
| 2017 | Roman Signer, Interview, Théâtre des variétés, Monaco, MO |
| 2015 | Tatiana Trouvé, exhibition Desire Lines, assistant, Galerie Gagosian, New-York |
TEXTS / PUBLICATIONS / POETRY
| 2024 | Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible, Monograph, with the contributions of |
| Antoinette Jattiot, Anne-Lou Vicente, Diane Der Markarian, Maxime Matray | |
| 2023 | Du muable, Diane Der Markarian, exhibition text, Salon du Salon |
| 2023 | Clare-Mary Puyfoulhoux, By walking, Text for L’art dans les chapelles |
| 2023 | Interview with the online art revue Horst und Edeltraut |
| 2023 | Because there could have been a surface, artist edition |
| 2023 | Becomings: detours and turning points, artist edition, residency Huet Repolt |
| 2022 | Marie Cantos, A break in the continiuous, exhibition text, galerry 22,48m2, Paris |
| 2022 | Outside | Outside, artist edition |
| 2022 | A knife without a blade, for which only the handle is missing, artist edition |
| 2021 | Revue Alliage, CosmicomiX, publicated by Jean-Marc Lévy Leblond |
| 2020 | Etienne Hatt, for the catalogue of the Art Press Biennal |
| 2020 | Revue Transfuge, november 2020, À ceux qui viennent, Aude de Bourbon Parme |
| 2020 | Florian Gaité, text for the Biennale jeune création, Centre d’art de la Graineterie |
| 2020 | And Darkness is restored, Maxime Matray |


Leaving only the skins of things
Solo Show, La Traverse, Marseille (FR), 2025
“Plus que la peau des choses (that could in french be understood both as more or less than the skin of things) unfolds as a milieu, a threshold space between the organic form and its reflected domain or its becoming-other, in a constant state of indeterminacy between surface-relic and the beginning of an intensive movement, a potential latent energy."


Module-measure (metamorphoses)
Pattern making fabric, electric cables, cables, copper wire, black paint, thermoformable sheath
Excerpt from exhibition text:
“…Thus, this ‘ground’¹ - whose whiteness, silence, and stillness of the pattern fabric contrast with the black lines running through it - appears animated by infinitesimal and infinite variations, in a metamorphic condition ; traversed by potential energies with a hybrid appearance - between electrical cables, sheaths that have retained the imprint of ropes, and snake moults slipping and probing in and out of the folds.
The installation appears as what could be a field of intensities, a muted activity, ‘constituted by an infinity of forces […] from which an actualization (in the form of an individuated body - that is to say, affected and affecting) may take shape.’²
¹ The German term Grund means at once: reason/foundation, ground, and soil.
² Sophie Gosselin, on myth and its pre-cosmic dimension, in Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.


False-reflection (illusion of a present time)
inkjet print on 70g kozo paper beetween
two glass plaques
In this Faux-reflets series, fragments of my installations are photographed through the reflection of a glass. Printed and then placed between two glass plaques, they are displayed slightly out of alignment with the object, which is no longer present, or present elsewhere, in another configuration within the exhibition space, in a play of echoes between the current installation's reflection and its photographed counterpart.
This displacement introduces a kind of temporal thickness, an additional layer, and suggests the possibility of a slight disjunction, a gentle disorientation within the apparent fixity of things.


Module-measure (metamorphoses)
Pattern making fabric, electric cables, cables, copper wire, black paint, thermoformable sheath
Excerpt from exhibition text:
“…Thus, this ‘ground’¹ - whose whiteness, silence, and stillness of the pattern fabric contrast with the black lines running through it - appears animated by infinitesimal and infinite variations, in a metamorphic condition ; traversed by potential energies with a hybrid appearance - between electrical cables, sheaths that have retained the imprint of ropes, and snake moults slipping and probing in and out of the folds.
The installation appears as what could be a field of intensities, a muted activity, ‘constituted by an infinity of forces […] from which an actualization (in the form of an individuated body - that is to say, affected and affecting) may take shape.’²
¹ The German term Grund means at once: reason/foundation, ground, and soil.
² Sophie Gosselin, on myth and its pre-cosmic dimension, in Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.


Like a world, identical to the world, this one hollow
brass axes, prints on latex, tinted steel frame
variable dimensions




Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions
In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..


Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions
In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..


Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia)
Inkjet transfer, paper, binder and painting oil on brass Variable dimensions
In the Solve-Coagula series - (2021-...) - landscape photographs are transferred in successive phases to brass plates, combining intervation with oil paint. While the images in the first series represent skies whose nature, between cloud and explosion, remains ambiguous, the Solve-Coagula (Solastalgia) series focuses more specifically on images of fires and forest conflagrations. The title, borrowed from environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes unease, the erosion of a sense of belonging, and a form of desynchronization in the face of a disappearing nature.
If the reflective background seems to create the illusion or near-hallucination of crackling, the surface recalls photography, the representation of the real and the present, making several contiguous planes overlap and intersect (sometimes doubling them, inverting them, or flipping them), evoking a form of disorientation regarding the ongoing temporality..


Bone vertebra, wax vertebra, leather skin, wax needle, beetle, inkjet print (dog hair, from The Arnolfini Portrait), brass, wooden stand
Looking inside, what outside (2023-...) is an open series of installations taking as starting point an element of a Still Life painting, the vivid but then frozen detail of a genre scene, a fragment of symbolic space in a painting, replaying the devices (thresholds, change of scale, doublings, reflections...) within these representations of seeing and this symbolic embedding of vision and the world.
Inspired by animist masks that unfold multiple interiorities on a single plane, this particular sculpture deploys various surfaces/envelopes, each defining a distinct subjectivity.


Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024


Exhibition view, Not empty exactly, maybe just impossible - Solo show, L'ahah-moret, Paris, 2024


Counter-light, Counter-lid
Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec
Hinges between things
Brass plaques, pattern fabric, wax blades, glass plaques


Hinges between things
Brass plaques, pattern fabric, wax blades, glass plaques
Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec


Counter-light, Counter-lid
Installation for L'art dans les chapelles - 2023
Chapelle de la Trinité, Castennec


Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display
*refers to a constantly changing state
Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.
Exhibition view: Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2024


Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display
*refers to a constantly changing state
Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.


Du muable* - 2023
texts, margins, plaster casts, boxes, inkjet prints
Variable display
*refers to a constantly changing state
Du muable (which refers to things whose state is constantly changing) held within it the idea of being the opposite of immutable. This installation is intended as a memory, or as an open archive. It consists of several éléments that to my mind are both on the periphery of the work - that do not really belong in an installation - and at the same time catalyze and nourish it (texts, images, casts, folded papers, publication margins, boxes). The bookcase, whether laid out on the floor or in the form of shelves, is a space that could be infinite, in which text and objects can unfold as well as withdrawin to themselves, retreat into their containers, appear in the transparency of a stratum of paper or remain on the
surface of a molded box, just as a stream of consciousness would be at a given moment.
Exhibition view: Château de Servières, Marseille, 2024