Sophia Süßmilch was born in 1983 in Munich, and studied there under Stephan Huber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 2006 to 2015. In 2011, she received a research scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in the USA, after which she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Ashley Hans Scheirl until 2013. The artist works in the media of photography, painting, sculpture and performance.

Her work has been shown in Belvedere 21 in Vienna in 2018, Neue Galerie Graz and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in 2020, Ludwig Forum Aachen in 2021, solo 2023 at G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig and at Francisco Carolinum in Linz. 2024 saw her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

In 2018 she was awarded the Bayerischen Kunstförderpreis and in 2020 the Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München. In 2022 she recieved the Marianne Defet Stipendium für Malerei.

Sophia Süßmilch lives and works in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.


Solo shows at MARTINETZ:
2022 15 Jahre Psychoanalyse und immer noch kein Gott in Sicht
2020 Gebenedeit sei die Frucht deines Leibes

Group shows at MARTINETZ:
2025 10, curated by Johanna Adam, Hendrik Bündge, Nadia Ismail
2023 We shall be monsters
2022 KAPPA KAPPA CRINGE, curated by Hendrik Bündge
2021 DIE GANZE WAHRHEIT, curated by Johanna Adam
 

Monography:
SANATORIUM SÜSSMILCH, DISTANZ Verlag, Publisher: OÖ Landes-Kultur, 2024
Famous Worldwide: Sophia Süßmilch, 2020 
Who the F*ck is Sophia Süßmilch, Publisher: Büro Weltausstellung, 2020

Exhibition publications:
WE Der Körper als Zeichen, Publisher: Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2025 
Motherhood, Kerber Verlag, Publisher: Syker Vorwerk - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2023