Germany, 1961
Sonja Szlosek is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across painting, collage, digital art, and immersive installations. Her work explores the tension between systems and the human spirit, often using surreal, symbolic imagery infused with subtle humor and poetic disruption.
Born in Germany and shaped by formative years in the Canary Islands, her visual language reflects a meeting of cultures, light, and liminal states. This early experience continues to inform her fascination with transformation, hybridity, and threshold moments.
Rooted in a background in art therapy and community-based art practice, Szlosek’s work bridges social critique and inner transformation. Recurring motifs include hybrid creatures, fragmented bodies, bureaucratic archetypes, and mythic symbols—used not as illustration, but as tools to question power, conformity, and perception.
Her recent bodies of work move fluidly between analog and digital processes, embracing imperfection, intuition, and layered meaning. Rather than offering answers, her works invite viewers into moments of recognition, reflection, and quiet rebellion.
Now based in Ireland, Sonja Szlosek works internationally. Her practice is guided by the belief that art can be both a mirror and an exit—revealing structures while opening space for freedom, laughter, and renewal.