Angela Sommerhoff

Angela Sommerhoff (born 1970 as Angela Wilde in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg) is a German contemporary artist. After finishing high school in 1990, she studied painting and sculpting from 1991-1995 in Vienna. She continued to study history of art at the University of Vienna (1995-1997). Currently, she lives and works in the countryside south of Munich (Germany) with her family, where her studio has been located since 2013.

Angela initially started playing the violin as a six-year-old girl, before pursuing visual arts as a painter later on. At the age of ten, she joined a string quartet which performed so exceptionally well they were invited to compete in several musical competitions called “Jugend musiziert”. After finishing high school in 1990, Angela Sommerhoff toured Germany with several youth orchestras. In 1991, Angela began her art studies in Vienna, Austria at a private institution. Her work included both painting and sculpting. One of the main subjects of her studies at this time was metamorphosis, as well as the phenomenon of human color perception described in the theory of colors by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which also influenced Philipp Otto Runge, J. M. W. Turner and Wassily Kandinsky. Angela continued her educati...

Studied painting and sculpture in Vienna

2005 Solo exhibition atShinergy(zone), Vienna
2008 Group exhibition „Travelling“ at ART 3 Gallery in Manchester NH, USA
2009 Solo exhibition at Gallery “Kunst 161”in Hamburg
2010 Solo exhibition at “Kulturzentrum Holzkirchen”
2010 Group exhibition “Variationen [6]” at Sparkasse Senftenberg
2010 Charity Solo exhibition at “Logenhaus” in Hamburg
2012 Solo exhibition at  “Kulturzentrum Forum 3” in Stuttgart
2012 Solo exhibition at ”Galerie Lichthof” in Hamburg
2014 Solo exhibition at Goßlerhaus in Hamburg
2016 Solo exhibition at “Stilwerk” in Hamburg
2016 Solo exhibition at “Kunstraum Bösmüller” in Wien
2017 Group exhibition at “Fabrik der Künste” in Hamburg
2017 Solo exhibition Stadtmuseum Bad Tölz
2017 Group exhibition at Galerie d'Orsay in Boston
2017 Group exhibition at the monastery Benediktbeuern
2018 Exhibition at Galerie Achtzig in Berlin
2019 Solo exhibition at ausstellungsraum.at in Vienna
2019 Group exhibition at "Remise" in Gauting
2022 Solo exhibition at ausstellungsraum.at in Vienna