Zsófia Schwéger
1989, Szeged
Zsófia Schwéger completed her university studies in the United States on a scholarship at Wellesley College. Since 2013, she has been living in the United Kingdom, where she earned her Master of Fine Art degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, in 2015. Her painting draws inspiration from her experiences of living in different countries. In general, she explores the human relationship to space, and in particular the concepts of home and belonging: Her work seeks to capture and represent the coexistence of presence and absence, immobility and the passage of time, emotion and apathy, intimacy and fear. Through her paintings depicting domestic interiors and shared spaces, Schwéger employs a reductive, non-hierarchical painterly approach to convey both detachment and connection.
She has received numerous art awards, including the Jealous Prize, the Griffin Art Prize, the FBA Futures ‘One To Watch’ Award, the Alice C. Cole Award in the USA, and the Esterházy Art Award in both 2017 and 2021. In 2016, she was selected as one of Bloomberg's New Contemporaries in the UK, and in 2017, she was featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 Europe in the Art category. Following her solo exhibition at Griffin Gallery in London in 2016, she has presented solo shows at Edel Assanti (London), Sapar Contemporary (New York), Lundgren Gallery (Palma de Mallorca), INDA Gallery (Budapest), and Rutger Brandt Gallery (Amsterdam). Her first solo museum exhibition took place at the Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History in Győr during the summer of 2022.
