Sonya Schönberger

Sonya Schönberger studied social anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Zurich, as well as Experimental Media Design at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she was a graduate fellow of Professor Thomas Arslan. She has developed international projects at the intersection of visual arts and performance arts. Her work deals with the fissures created for the individual when one political system switches over to another. One of her main focuses is tracking down the traces, the Second World War has left within German history. Based on the biographical experiences of eyewitnesses and newly rediscovered fragments, her works are created in an interplay between various media. The following works have already been shown in Berlin: “rosemarie” (Ballhaus Ost – 2014/15), “Fuge” (Ballhaus Ost – 2014), "Michael" (nbk – 2015), “Andre&Arno” (Kunsthaus Dahlem – 2015). Sonya Schönberger has received grants from the Ilse-Augustin-Foundation (2015) and the Berlin Senate (2014). Her piece “I would always dream of my house – Stories of displacement”, made in collaboration with Shahana Rajani, is her first appearance at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.