Sonja Edle von Hoeßle

The artist Sonja Edle von Hoeßle was born in Wiesbaden in 1960. After studying visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and at the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg, she graduated with a degree in design in 1992. In 1993, the artist founded the metal manufacturing company “two hands“. In 2015, she and her husband Herbert Mehler, also a metal sculptor, jointly founded the “Erbachshof Art Project” in Eisingen, near Würzburg, where the couple lives and works in their own artistic workshop.

Sonja Edle von Hoeßle’s sculptural works bring together ideas and physicality, design and emotion, solidity and transparency. The artist uses steel to create a rhythmical sequence of linear and circular segments that seem to unfold across space before finding their way back together. All of her sculptures are shape-shifters, they invite the viewer to become active and move around the sculpture, capturing its dynamics from every angle. The verticality of her sculptures gives them the appearance of floating, dancing objects, sometimes playfully interacting with their own shadows.

The artist’s oeuvre equally includes larger-than-life works made of corten steel and smaller-scale pieces of delicate beauty – in both cases, Sonja Edle von Hoeßle manages to transform the heavy and stubborn material into seemingly weightless, joyful creations.