Sophie Esslinger (*1996, Linz, AT) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She completed her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2025 as a master student of Prof. Thomas Scheibitz. From 2017 to 2021 she studied Fine Arts with Prof. Jan Svenungsson at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Esslinger had her first solo exhibition „novelle“ at fiebach, minninger in May/June 2025. She had further solo shows, for example, at CFA Berlin (Berlin, 2025), Baustelle Schaustelle (Düsseldorf, 2024) or Vienna Collector’s Club, (Viena, 2024). Furthermore, her work has been shown at various group exhibitions for exapmple at Kunstpalast + NRW Forum Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, 2024) or at JVDW Gallery (Düsseldorf, 2024). Painting undergoes constant transformation in Sophie Esslinger’s work. The painter draws on a formal repertoire of recurring motifs such as eyes, hands, circles, and plant fragments. Recombined and recontextualized, they form an associative chain of recognizable and unfamiliar elements. Her visual language oscillates between figuration and abstraction, weaving fragments of perception into poetic constellations that shift between the familiar and the enigmatic.