Sophie-Luise Passow's Stress Granules Paintings Shown Across Four 2026 Venues
In 2026, Sophie-Luise Passow showcased her unstretched linen paintings across four exhibitions. A graduate of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2022, the Vienna-born artist employs various materials to create her floor-based works. Her series delves into stress granules, which serve as a protective response during stressful times. One of her notable pieces, FHL1 (Four and a Half LIM Domains Protein 1), 2026, is named after a specific protein. Key exhibitions include Stress Granules at Aarhus Billedkunstcenter, A Granule of Stress at CANTINA, and a solo booth at Parallel Vienna in September 2026. Passow's earlier solo exhibitions featured Organisms and Living Chimeras in Vienna in 2024, while her diploma project, Bitte Warten, 2022, was executed in soft pastel on linen.
Key facts
- Sophie-Luise Passow was born in Vienna in 1994 and received a diploma in Drawing and Printmaking from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2022.
- Her paintings are made on unstretched linen hung from the top edge, retaining fold and roll creases, often executed on the floor with pigment, pastel, oil pencils, oil paint, pastel chalks and wax.
- The series references stress granules, described in gallery text as a temporary protective mechanism that hardens under sustained stress.
- The painting FHL1 (Four and a Half LIM Domains Protein 1), 2026, is titled after a protein.
- Stress Granules was shown at Aarhus Billedkunstcenter in a tall white hall with a steel staircase and mezzanine, with works hung at varying heights.
- A Granule of Stress was presented at CANTINA, an artist-run space at Godsbanen in Aarhus operated by members of the studio community Corporum, in a lower room with exposed ventilation ducts.
- Crone Berlin included Passow in Empty Places, Crowded Hearts from 27 June to 15 August 2026 with Hanne Darboven, Sylvie Fleury, Channa Horwitz, Charlotte Posenenske and Rosemarie Trockel, among others.
- Galerie Crone gave Passow a solo booth in the Gallery Statement section of Parallel Vienna, 9 to 13 September 2026.
Entities
Artists
- Sophie-Luise Passow
- Hanne Darboven
- Sylvie Fleury
- Channa Horwitz
- Charlotte Posenenske
- Rosemarie Trockel
- Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
- Uwe Walter
- Carmen Alber
Institutions
- Galerie Crone
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
- CANTINA
- Aarhus Billedkunstcenter
- Crone Berlin
- Parallel Vienna
- Kunst-Felzl
- Atlas
- Corporum
- Godsbanen
- mumok
- Weserburg Museum
- Tokyo University of the Arts
- AAIP (Artists As Independent Publishers)
- Catapult Contemporary
Locations
- Vienna
- Austria
- Aarhus
- Denmark
- Berlin
- Germany
- Bremen
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Getreidemarkt 14
- Fasanenstrasse 29
- Kalkværksvej
- South Harbour
- Central Jutland