Sonja Weber Olivera 1795 Jacquard fabric on stretcher frame

Biografie

Sonja Weber (born 1968 in Hof, Bavaria) completed her art studies at the Ravensburg Free Art School and received her textile designer diploma at the Textile University in Münchberg. She studied fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Professor Hanns Herpich and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Gerd Winner.

“In our restless times, my works enable the viewer to remember and escape into this other world. He can immerse himself in my water and cloud images, find peace there, find relaxation and let his soul unwind. Even if such statements do not correspond to the zeitgeist of current art, they do, admittedly, describe what every human being feels deep down in terms of longing and wishes.” (Sonja Weber)

Prices :
1994 Academy Prize from the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts
2000 3rd prize ‘Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize 2000’, 2nd prize competition ‘2000 Years of Christianity – The World in Change’ Hof Art Association
2003 sponsorship award of the ‘Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf’
2005 1st prize ‘A Cross for the 21st Century’ for the residential and dining area, Freising Cathedral Museum 2006 1st prize ‘Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize 2006’
2017 ‘Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize 2017’
2021 ‘Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize 2021